Flood mitigation for pump stations
Flood mitigation for pump stations
(OP)
Looking into building a pump station in a floodplain - bad practice but is there any Methods used? already looked at providing bunds around the perimeter of the PS, and also raising the hieght of the slab, and manhole, and waterproofing the kiosk.





RE: Flood mitigation for pump stations
One thing that is imperative is that you definitely need to make sure all of the pump motors are above the maximum flood elevation.
A number of New Orleans pump stations were recently flooded with the aftermath of Katrina. Why don't you research those for lessons learned.
RE: Flood mitigation for pump stations