LIFT STATIONS /
GRINDER/PUMPING UNITS...
A PRIMER / THE BASICS
2024 November 18
PRIVATE STATIONS / UNITS
If you live on the islands south of the Number Four Bridge in Cedar Key and your property sits below the Cedar Key Water and Sewer District’s drainage system, you have a private residential lift station on your property.
If you live on the islands south of the Number Four Bridge in Cedar Key and your property sits below the Cedar Key Water and Sewer District’s drainage system, you have a private residential lift station on your property.
The purpose of that lift station on your property is to “lift” and pump the sewage from your property up to the level of the CKWSD drainage system, where it is collected into one of seventeen CKW&SD lift stations around the Cedar Key islands south of the Number Four Bridge. Those seventeen lift stations lift and pump the sewage to the wastewater plant on Third Street where it is treated.
The lift stations on private properties are sometimes referred to as grinder pumping units, or wet wells.
The Cedar Key Water and Sewer District maintains the larger lift station systems that are located on the city right of way. The lift stations units on individuals’ private properties and all piping located beyond the water meter are the responsibility of the property owners. Both the CKWSD’s and individual property owners’ stations are electronically complex units requiring regular maintenance.
PUBLIC STATIONS / UNITS
The seventeen CKWSD lift stations will now be refurbished, thanks to grants from the Florida legislature and the energetic lobbying of CKWSD general manager and commissioners, some city officials, ad voluminous missives from Cedar Key based non-profit environmental groups.
The seventeen CKWSD lift stations will now be refurbished, thanks to grants from the Florida legislature and the energetic lobbying of CKWSD general manager and commissioners, some city officials, ad voluminous missives from Cedar Key based non-profit environmental groups.
PUBLIC MEETING
An information meeting presented by the CKWSD will be held on December 3rd. Presenters will explain the process and scheduling of the refurbishing of the seventeen water department lift stations The plan is that two stations will be refurbished at a time, diminishing he slight traffic alterations that will attend the process.
An information meeting presented by the CKWSD will be held on December 3rd. Presenters will explain the process and scheduling of the refurbishing of the seventeen water department lift stations The plan is that two stations will be refurbished at a time, diminishing he slight traffic alterations that will attend the process.
FURTHER HELPFUL INFORMATION
Helpful to you might be the two following pieces:
• the first from retired architect and resident Laura Goodwin focusing upon the lift stations on private property;
• the second from CKWSD General Manager John Rittenhouse focusing on lift stations on private properties when power interrupts operation.
Helpful to you might be the two following pieces:
• the first from retired architect and resident Laura Goodwin focusing upon the lift stations on private property;
• the second from CKWSD General Manager John Rittenhouse focusing on lift stations on private properties when power interrupts operation.
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