water storage and pumping

The water storage system consists of two ground storage tanks and an elevated storage tank with a total capacity of two million gallons. Pressurization of the water transmission system is accomplished by a set of seven high service pumps at the Troutman Water treatment Facility and four high service pumps at the SRWTF. Both facilities are provided with emergency power via diesel generators, along with diesel generators on the raw water supply wells. Additionally, there is a remote 1.5 million gallon ground storage and repump station that is located west of I-95 in Port Malabar Unit 45, four high service pumps, and a standby diesel generator. A chlorination system is installed at the repump station to insure proper chlorine residuals are maintained in the distribution system.

An Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) well provides system storage for use during peak demand periods to increase the effective capacity of the overall water system. The finished water is injected into the underground storage the ASR well using pressure in the distribution system and is stored for subsequent withdrawal via a 1.0 million gallon per day vertical turbine well pump for pumping into either the raw water transmission or the finished water distribution systems. The ASR well provides for a total storage capacity of 100 million gallons.

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