Road drain - Pumped road drains

[digerjones]

hi all,
the job is a new development of ten house's, the plan is drains into a pumping station then pumped down the road to main sewer, distence about 300 or 400 metres. is this possible? are there any experts on here to do us a plan or a survey? what liscence would i need if i was going to do it any info would be great.
p.s. giles if you read this could you tell how to put pics on. i know tony has said how to do it but i am having no joy
cheers dylan

[GB_Groundworks]

first point of contact will have to be local utilities group i.e united utilities and liaise with them about the pumping station, they'll be your best bet. we had to do the same on a job and they dealt with the pumping station and connection (at great expense) to the sewer. you'll need to use high pressure pipe and welded joints for the connections as the pumps run at very high pressure. if you haven't done it before let the civils lads deal with it.

photos you'll need to upload them some where on the net, photobucket, flickr, your own website, then right click on them and copy link then enclose the link in an img tag like

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depending on your area flowjoe can survey existing pipes etc. pumping that distance and lift of upto 10 metres is not a problem if you've got the money.[/color]



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[digerjones]

cheers giles. i will try pic info but i am happy in a digger and not to good with computer terms.

[Tony McC]

It's a fairly standard arrangement, Dylan. The foul sewers all drain to what is known as a 'wet well', where the effluent accumulates until the level rises sufficiently to trigger a float switch which turns on a pump to push the crud up what is known as a "rising main" to a discharge point some distance away.

The distance, the head, the number of properties being served all influence the actual design of the wet well, the rising main and the pump, but a good overview is given in Sewers For Adoption latest edition.

Any design needs to be developed by a competent and qualified engineer and it will require approval by the local authority as agent for the utility companies, bt most designers/developers use a standard 'off-the-shelf' design to minimise costs and to ensure the construction uses readily available components.

[digerjones]

thanks tony, its a bit off yet so i've got things to think about'
cheers dylan