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TEMPORARY GRIFFIN PUMP STATION KEEPS WATER FLOWING
A temporary pumping station was installed to supply downstream water users, when construction of a hydroelectric plant on California’s Lake Isabella required shutting off the flow from the main dam.
Lake Isabella is a primary source of water for farmers in the southern part of the largest agricultural area in California. Supply problems caused by the shutoff were exacerbated by drought conditions that had caused water shortages.
Griffin Dewatering designed, constructed and operated the pump station, which was capable of pumping 200,000 gpm (gallons per minute) with a standby capacity of 30,000 gpm. The station was outfitted with two 36inch vertical axial flow pumps and fifteen 24 inch axial flow pumps.
The system operated for about five months, according to Susan Young, assistant to the project manager for Isabella Partners, Lake Isabella, Calif., which was constructing the 16 MW plant. “The pump station worked very well. We’ve gotten repeated compliments from the downstream water users about the system. Believe me, that’s unusual,” she says.
For more information on the Griffin Axial Flow Pumps in this photo please visit: www.griffinpump.com/pumps/submersible_pumps.html
TEMPORARY GRIFFIN PUMP STATION KEEPS WATER FLOWING
A temporary pumping station was installed to supply downstream water users, when construction of a hydroelectric plant on California’s Lake Isabella required shutting off the flow from the main dam.
Lake Isabella is a primary source of water for farmers in the southern part of the largest agricultural area in California. Supply problems caused by the shutoff were exacerbated by drought conditions that had caused water shortages.
Griffin Dewatering designed, constructed and operated the pump station, which was capable of pumping 200,000 gpm (gallons per minute) with a standby capacity of 30,000 gpm. The station was outfitted with two 36inch vertical axial flow pumps and fifteen 24 inch axial flow pumps.
The system operated for about five months, according to Susan Young, assistant to the project manager for Isabella Partners, Lake Isabella, Calif., which was constructing the 16 MW plant. “The pump station worked very well. We’ve gotten repeated compliments from the downstream water users about the system. Believe me, that’s unusual,” she says.
For more information on the Griffin Axial Flow Pumps in this photo please visit: www.griffinpump.com/pumps/submersible_pumps.html