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Seal Water System Supplied To Easterly Tunnel Dewatering Pump Station Project
North America faces significant environmental challenges due to population growth and our aging infrastructure. The need to improve sanitary sewer facilities includes transportation via pipelines or tunnel conveyances for new and upgraded wastewater treatment plants, and the mitigation of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). However, many of the areas requiring new [...]
Prefabricated Housed Pump Systems Delivery Process
This year has already been off to a busy start. The warehouse is packed with booster systems, break tank systems, sump pumps, two product trailers and prefabricated houses. By the end of 2015 there were five prefabricated houses being built in the warehouse and as of last week four out of the five houses had […]
2016 Project Trends: Innovative Technology, Prefabricated Buildings, Updating Aging Infrastructure
Starting in 2016, Metropolitan recently started a 34 lift station upgrade to the city of Joliet’s SCADA system. In a continuing effort to update their aging infrastructure and growing population, we have also assisted with new, prefabricated houses at 2 of their lift stations and east side WWTP facilities. Upgrading water and wastewater systems and […]
Metropolitan Industries Releases 2016 Seminar Schedule
Are you interested in attending one of our 2016 seminars for continuing education or professional development hours? All courses are free of charge and lunch is always provided. Future dates will be released at a later time, so please check in at www.metropolitanind.com/training for updated schedules. All seminars are conducted at our facility in Romeoville, [...]
Replacing Antiquated Systems With Custom, Turn-Key Products
An existing 30-year-old boiler feed system providing heat to a high-rise building located at 1 N. LaSalle in Chicago was recently replaced because the existing tanks were failing. Previous Boiler System in Need of Replacing. If the tanks fail there would no longer be a way to feed water to the boiler for heating the [...]
Out With The Old Instrumentation, In With New & Improved SCADA
By updating existing infrastructure, water and wastewater facilities’ have the ability to collect and process significant information via Metropolitan's cloud-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) allowing management and operations personnel to make better, informed decisions, while maintaining up-front costs. SCADA retrofits As the water and wastewater industry looks ahead to the future in communications [...]
Metropolitan Tackles Storm Water Removal at Soldier Field
Soldier Field, the home of the Chicago Bears and part of the Chicago Park District, recently received a complete face-lift. Metropolitan Industries was contracted by Great Lakes Plumbing to manufacture water systems to deal with the various water needs throughout the facility. Metropolitan was chosen for the job because of their knowledge and expertise of [...]
Prefabricated Housed Systems Provide Municipalities with Above Ground Pump Station Upgrades
Upgrading water and wastewater systems and controls for municipalities has increased over the last few years due to aging infrastructure. As controls and water systems begin to fail due to wear and tear, many municipalities are turning to the latest in technology innovation. Part of this innovation is the ability to house many different types [...]