To stay in compliance with state Environmental Protection Agency requirements, the Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority in Pennsylvania had to double the capacity of one of its plants — from 15 mgd facility to 31 mgd. The large-scale job called for outside expertise and innovative solutions.
As part of the expansion process, KVWPCA needed to decommission their existing influent pumping station and tie into a new influent pump station once construction was completed. To enable all that to happen, KVWPCA — with help from an engineering contractor and Xylem — built a bypass pumping system that could handle the flow as the construction process was taking place.
