What Is a Lift Station?

How Does It Work?

A lift station is an essential piece of a viable sewage assortment system. Crude sewage makes its process underground in slanted pipelines that exploit gravity to minimize expenses. This kind of pipe system is generally alluded to as a gravity pipeline. In certain circumstances, it's important for wastewater to enter the pipe system from a lower elevation. For the crude sewage to proceed with the excursion towards a wastewater treatment plant, it should be effectively moved to a higher elevation. This can't occur normally for clear reasons - it would oppose the laws of gravity and physical science. Luckily, we have the wastewater lift stations to help.

Ultimately, the crude sewage arrives at a storage container alluded to as a wet well, which is basically a holding cell that discharges out once it arrives at a predetermined level. While in the wet well, the wastewater is tested and painstakingly checked to distinguish sewage levels. Solid materials are eliminated at this stage. When the wet well is full, a lift station pump will carry the sewage upwards utilizing a compressed sewer force main. A sewer force main is a system that is made up of pumps and compressors. Its job is to raise the wastewater to a higher elevation with the goal that it can proceed with its excursion towards treatment and distribution.