ACUA’s Egg Harbor City Pump Station has undergone a major overhaul. The pump station conveys more than 117 million gallons of wastewater a year from Egg Harbor City to ACUA’s treatment plant in Atlantic City for further treatment. The station received new pumps, a new prefabricated building to hold the pumps, electrical work, and overall site improvements.
The station was built in 1991 when Egg Harbor City joined ACUA’s regional wastewater treatment system. At the time, it was standard to place the pumps that are used to move the wastewater in dry well cans located 25 feet underground.
Over the years, this layout made repairs on the pumps inefficient and increasingly costly. It required that pumps be dissembled then sent away for maintenance, which could exceed $300,000 each time.
Rather than constructing a new building to house the pumps above ground, ACUA’s Centralized Maintenance and Systems teams explored a prefabricated solution. This cost-effective method allowed the building to be constructed offsite and later installed at the Chicago Avenue location.
ACUA Chief Engineer Tom Ganard, ACUA Commissioners Alex Marino and Fred Akers, Egg Harbor City Councilwoman Nanette Galloway, ACUA President Matthew DeNafo, ACUA Board Chairman Marvin Embry, Egg Harbor City Council President Joseph Kuehner, ACUA Wastewater Systems Manager Stanley Russ, Jr., and ACUA Facilities Services Group Leader Johnny Henry were present to mark the completion of the project.
To move forward with the project, a temporary pump was installed to handle the incoming wastewater flow as work was completed. Excavation was performed in-house, and once the building was in place, ACUA’s Centralized Maintenance, Systems and Facilities teams installed the new pumps as well as the pipes and electrical components to connect the new pumps to the system.
This proactive $500,000 investment, completed primarily in-house by skilled ACUA employees, will significantly decrease maintenance costs moving forward and increase the system’s resiliency.
ACUA Wastewater Systems and Centralized Maintenance employees played a key role in completing this critical upgrade.
Thank you to all employees from the Engineering, Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, and Facilities teams for working on this critical upgrade.
ACUA is now working to bring all underground pumps to the surface and plans to repeat this cost-effective solution at additional pump stations in the future.
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