One of two prefabricated housed booster systems supplied to the Village of Park Forest, Ill.
Metropolitan Industries recently supplied two prefabricated housed booster systems, along with components for a third system, to the Village of Park Forest, Ill.
The project was funded by a state grant and the station in need of repair was the village’s lime softening water treatment plant, which had been designed in the 1930s. The village was experiencing main water breaks close to the treatment plant and called upon Baxter & Woodman Consulting Engineers to help develop a solution. Working with Metropolitan, Baxter & Woodman determined the implementation of two prefabricated housed systems, and components for a future third system, would remedy the problem at a cost-efficient price.
“With the existing configuration the village was working with, it wasn’t able to generate the 70 pounds of pressure it needed to fill its elevated tanks,” said Metropolitan salesperson Keith Girup. “By providing our booster systems at the elevated tanks, it was able to dial the treatment plant back to around 50 pounds of pressure to reduce the risk of experiencing more main water breaks. Each of our booster systems provides the extra 20 pounds needed to fill the elevated tanks.”
Girup said that while these fixtures are ideally temporary solutions, they’ve eliminated the need for the village to make a very expensive purchase it may have not been able to finance.
“Ideally, this should be a temporary solution because water mains that are in dire shape like the ones in this particular system need to eventually be replaced,” said Girup. “However, that could be a very expensive venture and the customer decided it was financially practical to purchase more costly efficient boosters and finance the very expensive project over time. In some cases, additionally booster stations aren’t necessarily a positive, but here, they were the practical answer.”
For more information, please contact Keith Girup at 815-886-9200, ext. 264 or sales@metropolitanind.com.
