The Turtle Park Pump Station in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is the largest and most critical sewer pump station in the city’s wastewater system. It receives all combined flows from the city’s collection system that feed to the Turtle Park Wastewater Treatment Plant, representing approximately 95% of all sewer flows in the city. By 2017, the station had become outdated, utilizing two 40-year-old intermediate shaft-driven pumps and two direct coupled non-submersible pumps located within a dry pit.
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