The city of Columbia, Tennessee, experienced a major pump failure in the spring of 2020 that led to sewage overflows, spurring them to engage Xylem Rental Solutions for an emergency pump rental. Xylem engineered a custom temporary bypass system with Flygt electric submersible pump.

To ensure safe and reliable water service for its customers, EPCOR partnered with Pure Technologies, a Xylem brand to complete a high-resolution condition assessment. The team inspected a 9.4-kilometer (5.8-mi) section of the critical Northside Pipeline for leaks and pipe wall deterioration.

Retrofitting or upgrading the fire protection system of an existing facility is not uncommon, necessitating a temporary fire protection solution that integrates with the existing pumping system to ensure continuity and compliance.

By implementing a proactive management program, utilities can virtually eliminate the risk of failure within their PCCP inventory. Even utilities that have not experienced a large-diameter PCCP failure, can realize significant capital program savings by managing these assets in place of replacement.

While evaluating wire breaks are an important part of PCCP management, it is important to acknowledge additional factors beyond wire breaks. By acknowledging additional condition factors, limitations of wire break assessment, and considering other rehabilitation approaches, there may be a more sustainable PCCP management approach.

The most effective strategy to safely manage a force main inventory is to implement a risk based approach for any data collection, inspection, condition assessment, and management techniques. Using asset risk to guide the management strategies, an owner/operator can ensure they are implementing the right approach, at the right time, with the lowest financial impact.

Discover how the Lake Huron Primary Water Supply System leveraged Xylem’s advanced monitoring and inspection technologies and engineering analyses to identify urgent repair needs and plan future maintenance and capital projects. Learn how this approach helped the utility improve reliability, save money, and extend the life of critical infrastructure.

Air Selangor is a large water distribution company owned by the Malaysian state of Selangor. The public utility serves a population of 8.4 million residents and manages over 6200 kilometers of trunk mains, ranging from 300mm up to 2200mm, with much of the pipelines located in remote areas of the state.

Safety upgrades imposed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) several years ago required nuclear power plants across the United States to review operations and enhance safety protocols. As a part of this process, a nuclear power plant located in the northeast of the U.S. sought an emergency back-up solution to inject cooling water into the plant reactor in the event that all other means of cooling failed.

Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. faced a two-pronged water challenge at one of its many underground mines. At the South Mine of the company’s Gibson County Coal in Indiana, solid-laden water needed to be pumped out of the mine, and a dewatering system needed to be installed in an area with limited space. Multiple pumps had to fit into a mine void less than eight feet high with a narrow, 20-foot entry span.

Delta Sand & Gravel Co., located in Eugene, Oregon, has been providing quality aggregate materials, service and expertise for almost nine decades. The company offers a full line of aggregate products for year-round, all-weather construction and demolition landfill. Xylem has partnered with Delta Sand & Gravel since 2013, to provide holistic water management solutions.

A condition assessment helps to understand the state of the prestressing wire which provides the pipe’s strength. PCCP manufactured during the 1970s is prone to low ductility in the wire and susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement, both of which increase the risk of failure. Worn PCCP can rupture with no warning, potentially shutting down the entire facility.

In the U.S., mines operate under strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations; as such, pipelines must be carefully monitored and maintained.

One of the largest U.S. producers of construction aggregates decided to relocate their processing plant to facilitate increased production capacity. However, the new location was further away from the plant’s water supply.

One customer, operating a hard rock nickel mine in Ontario, needed an efficient and reliable solution to transport its mine slime from an underground sump back to the surface while ensuring continuity in production and minimizing downtime.

A customer in Perú needed to drain water as its large open-pit mine operation reached as deep as 1,200 ft (365 m) below the surface. The discovery of more copper in the mine, and an expected excess of water during rainy summer months also prompted the company to act. They sought a remote solution for monitoring and controlling their pumping system, particularly as routing electrical power became more difficult the deeper they dug....

For 34 years, Steve and Lana Gleason made due without a traditional residential water system. The couple, who live in the rural logging community of Jewell, Oregon, pumped water for washing from a nearby river and made 40-mile round trips from their home to haul drinking water from a spring.

The Municipality of Ede comprises ten residential nuclei located in one of the most beautiful, wooded parts of the Netherlands. A total of more than two thousand pumping stations have to be managed and maintained there, for which a maintenance management program is used.

Operators of one of the largest coal fired power plants in the US based in Michigan, were looking for an efficient, robust and reliable pumping solution to move sludge water from each of the plant’s four sumps.

Soon after starting this biological treatment method, the membrane disc diffusers were found to be clogged with scale particles. However, this problem was satisfactorily solved by the Xylem’s mobile cleaning service: the Diffuser Liquid Cleaning Service.

Evansville is located on the north bank of the Ohio River in southwest Indiana. The City’s sewer system, parts of which are more than 100 years old, serves a population of 163,000, with combined sewers making up almost 40 percent of the total sewer area.

One of the largest global energy exploration companies faced the challenge of drawing source water among the steep slopes of Northern Pennsylvania. The water had to be drawn from a 30-feet deep wet well beside a creek and then pumped 300-feet vertically out of a ravine into the impoundment pond.

According to Deloitte LLP., large U.S. producers with significant shale oil and gas operations reported operating margins averaging around 20 percent in 2012, a significant drop from 2006 operating margins of 45 percent.