Irrigation system upgrades underway

The irrigation system at Glendale CC was installed in 1993. The pump station was part of that package and has worked pretty well for the past 20 years. It's time to upgrade the system and we are doing so over this coming winter. We have two 60 horsepower turbine pumps and one 5 hp pressure maintenance pump that were removed from the pump house yesterday. The two large pumps will be rebuilt, and the pressure maintenance pump is going to be replaced with a new pump. A section of the roof was removed so a crane could lift the two large pumps out of the wet well in the pump house.

 

This shows the lower part of the pump being removed from the wet well.

The pump out of the well ready to send off for rebuilding. The end that the guy is holding is where the 60 hp electric motor mounts to run the pump. The long shaft extends down into a concrete box that forms a well from where the pond water is taken.

This is the bottom of the pressure maintenance pump showing 20 years of corrosion and crud build up. The cost to rebuild the pumps is less than half of what it costs for new ones. The process will take a couple months and they will be put back into service in late January.