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Sewage Pump Station Fails, Crews Work to Mitigate Spillage

by Capo Dispatch
March 30, 2015 10:48AM
in EYE ON SJC, News
Sewage Pump Station Fails, Crews Work to Mitigate Spillage

Nine 5,000-gallon trucks have been pumping and dumping through the night in an effort to keep sewage at a failed pump station in North Beach from reaching the ocean. Photo: Andrea Swayne

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Sewage pump station failure has crews working through the night

Nine 5,000-gallon trucks have been pumping and dumping through the night in an effort to keep sewage at a failed pump station in North Beach from reaching the ocean. Photo: Andrea Swayne
Nine 5,000-gallon trucks have been pumping and dumping through the night in an effort to keep sewage at a failed pump station in North Beach from reaching the ocean. Photo: Andrea Swayne

By Andrea Swayne

One of the city’s main pump stations that moves sewage to the treatment plant failed Sunday, keeping utilities maintenance crews busy through the night, said a department supervisor on site shortly before 6 a.m. Monday.

Utilities Maintenance Supervisor Ken Burtech said the pump station in North Beach near the train station failed completely at about 9 p.m. Sunday, necessitating the use of pumper trucks to capture as much sewage as possible to prevent it from reaching the beach and the setup of a temporary bypass pump to route sewage to the treatment plant until it can be repaired.

The city’s utilities maintenance crews work in the dark to remove sewage at the failed pump station and setup a temporary bypass pump to move it to the treatment plant until repairs can be made. Photo: Andrea Swayne
The city’s utilities maintenance crews work in the dark to remove sewage at the failed pump station and setup a temporary bypass pump to move it to the treatment plant until repairs can be made. Photo: Andrea Swayne

Crews have been filling and dumping a fleet of nine 5,000-gallon tankers throughout the night, Burtech said, however the calculations of total gallons of sewage have not yet been made.

Some spillage did occur for a period of about an hour onto the beach near the Pier, he said, but the volume of that spill has yet to be estimated as well. The beach, one half-mile to the north and to the south of the pier, will be closed to swimming and surfing for two days, officials said.

A time frame for bringing the pump station back online has also not been determined.

“We are just trying to get out of the woods with the bypass pump,” Burtech said. “Once we get that done, we can assess the damage and start making repairs to get the station back to its normal operation.”

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