The City of Camas, Wash., couldn’t afford the environmental risk of sewage backing up during an electric power outage.“We had nine older lift stations, all designed differently, making them time-consuming to maintain and repair,” says Jim Dickinson, wastewater operations supervisor for the city. Camas is located on the north bank of the Columbia River next to Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash. “Since 2003, we’ve been retrofitting those stations, while installing pre-engineered lift stations in new subdivisions and developments.”Looking for consistency of design and equipment, Camas engineers selected Romtec Utilities in Roseburg, Ore., to fabricate the lift stations. Romtec, in turn,
