Upgrade to High-Performance Pumps Is Key to Ohio Community's Overflow Reductions

A plant upgrade helps an Ohio city solve a long-standing problem of combined sewer overflows

Upgrade to High-Performance Pumps Is Key to Ohio Community's Overflow Reductions

Gorman-Rupp Super T Series self-priming pumps replaced submersible pumps in the Shelby plant’s stormwater pump station, making it safer, easier and more economical to perform routine pump maintenance.

The Ohio city of Shelby recently upgraded its activated sludge wastewater treatment plant to double its capacity to 5 mgd while expanding capability to treat and disinfect combined high-volume stormwater and wastewater flows.

The project upgraded much of the plant from its original equipment installed in 1953. A major component of the upgrade was the replacement of 18 Gorman-Rupp pumps throughout the plant with new higher-performance pumps from the same company.

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