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The pump on top is a Wellpoint pump designed to pump clean water/effluent for a wellpoint dewatering system and lowers the groundwater table on construction excavations. It is has one of the highest air handling capacities on the market and can pump water while sucking air without shutting the pump down. A 6 inch wellpoint pump is capable of pumping 1500 gallons per minute with 145 feet of head.
The middle pump is a Trash Pump designed to pump clean or dirty/trash laden effluent and pass 3 inch solids without becoming clogged. It can be used to pump sewage or sandy water. A 6 inch Trash pump is capable of pumping 1500 gallons per minute with 125 ft. of head.
The lower pump is a High Pressure Pump (or Jet Pump) designed to be used as fire pumps or to jet casings or wellpoints without drilling/digging or agricultural irrigation systems. A 6 inch jet pump is capable of pumping 1300 gallons per minute with 600 feet of head or more.
Need a pump to water with sand or sludge in it?
The 6” jet pump and the 6” wellpoint pump will clog and stop working. The 6” trash pump is the pump you need.
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The 6” trash pump and 6” wellpoint pump will fail to push the water half that high. The 6” high pressure (jet) pump is the pump you need.
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The air will cause both the 6” trash pump and 6” jet pump to stop pumping. The high air-handling capacity of the wellpoint pump makes it the correct pump for this application.
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Flood walls line the bypass are designed to help keep flood waters contained and on course during large storm events. The dry bypass is the latest in a series of flood risk reduction projects the Corps of Engineers and Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District are partnering on to help prevent flooding in downtown Napa. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for August 4, 2015, to celebrate the project's completion. (U.S. Army photo by Luke Burns/Released)
Close up of a high-capacity stormwater drainage inlet in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Located at the intersection of Walker Way / Walker Court and Andaman Street. Stormwater flood management projects need to consider not only the capacity of new storm sewers or drainage channels that might be added, but the drainage infrastructure needed to get high rates of stormwater runoff into the conveyance system. The system of grates and inlets at this intersection offers much more hydraulic capacity than most intersection drainage schemes.
To help alleviate ongoing flooding from Hurricane Irma in Bonita Springs, SFWMD coordinated with Lee County and the City of Bonita Springs to install temporary pumps at a county drainage ditch that flows into the Imperial River. The City is operating the pumps as needed to move water from the ditch south into the District’s Big Cypress Basin system in Collier County, where canals have returned to normal levels and have capacity for the excess water.
In 1966, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the Ajo Detention Basin where the present-day Kino Environmental Restoration Project lives.
The basin, in its original state, was effective at flood control, but provided no water harvesting or wildlife habitat.
In the mid 1990s, using the authority of Section 1135, Water Resources Development Act of 1986, that allows the Corps to plan, design and build modifications to existing Corps projects--or areas degraded by Corps projects--to restore aquatic habitats for fish and wildlife, a plan was formed.
"The Corps and stakeholders from Pima County and the Pima County Regional Flood Control District developed a plan for KERP," said John Drake, a senior civil works project manager. "The modified basin created native ecosystems that are environmentally sensitive."
The project also added to the basin's flood control capacity and allowed for storm water harvesting to meet the irrigation needs of the Kino Sports Complex, Sam Lena Park and numerous sites along Ajo Way. The County estimates an average annual savings of $350,000 in irrigation costs since KERP's completion in 2002.
"The County is very progressive in managing the full purpose of the floodplain; flood conveyance, groundwater recharge and fish and wildlife habitat," added Drake.
KERP works in concert with other basins, like Rodeo, Kolb Road, Arroyo Chico and the Cherry Field complex that doubles as home to the Tucson High Magnet School's baseball and softball teams. The campus of THMS is also the site of the High School Wash Box Culvert inlet completed in April. This segment of the Arroyo Chico Multi-use Project greatly reduced the flood risk for more than 1,000 residential, commercial and industrial structures.
Historic Olmos Dam in San Antonio, Texas. The dam was constructed 1925-25 to provide flood control following a devastating flood in September 1921. The original 1,941 ft. concrete gravity dam contained a narrow road across its top. An improvement project was constructed 1979-80 to strengthen the dam and construct a 1,152 ft. emergency spillway to allow water to overtop the dam if necessary. The roadway was removed and replaced with a domed concrete cap to create the spillway and a concrete slope was added to the dam's downstream side. The dam is also known as the Olmos Creek Detention Dam.
To help prevent flooding in San Antonio, a 3-mile diversion tunnel for the San Antonio River was constructed by the Corps of Engineers in 1997.
In AMC's "Breaking Bad," John B. Robert Dam serves as the pickup point for both Jesse Pinkman and later for Walter White as each waits for the extractor.
The dam is located at Juan Tabo Boulevard and Osuna Road Northeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Michael J. Kirwan Dam and Reservoir is one of the district’s 16 flood control projects. It provides miles of clean water and scenic country sides, but on Dec. 17 it provided a snowy view for passerby’s to enjoy.
Since its completion in 1965, Kirwan Reservoir has prevented an estimated $755 million in flood damages. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Julie Stone)
As final grading work and swale installation got underway, field station crews also installed five drainage culverts to move stormwater runoff from the swale.
This was taken a couple of days after Hurricane Harvey passed over the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area. This particular neighborhood suffered no flooding thanks in large part to the retention pond that serves as a park and playground most of the year. After heavy rains, the pond part of the park invades the playground and we have less flooding as it gives the water time to make entry into the bayous that will take it to the Gulf of Mexico. Here is a picture of it doing its work for us. Those of us who live in the Shywood Subdivision are not at all shy about expressing our appreciation for the good planning that has saved us from flooding after many storms and big rains. Unfortunately, not every neighborhood in our area is situated to be able to benefit from a retention and drainage system like this one.
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With infilling of the L-13 Canal levee ditch complete, field station crews began final grading and installation of a swale for drainage of stormwater runoff.
A heavy fog lifts over Dale Hollow Dam and Reservoir Oct. 19, 2018 during the 75th Anniversary Commemoration at the dam's overlook in Celina, Tenn. (USACE Photo by Leon Roberts)
In 1966, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the Ajo Detention Basin where the present-day Kino Environmental Restoration Project lives.
The basin, in its original state, was effective at flood control, but provided no water harvesting or wildlife habitat.
In the mid 1990s, using the authority of Section 1135, Water Resources Development Act of 1986, that allows the Corps to plan, design and build modifications to existing Corps projects--or areas degraded by Corps projects--to restore aquatic habitats for fish and wildlife, a plan was formed.
"The Corps and stakeholders from Pima County and the Pima County Regional Flood Control District developed a plan for KERP," said John Drake, a senior civil works project manager. "The modified basin created native ecosystems that are environmentally sensitive."
The project also added to the basin's flood control capacity and allowed for storm water harvesting to meet the irrigation needs of the Kino Sports Complex, Sam Lena Park and numerous sites along Ajo Way. The County estimates an average annual savings of $350,000 in irrigation costs since KERP's completion in 2002.
"The County is very progressive in managing the full purpose of the floodplain; flood conveyance, groundwater recharge and fish and wildlife habitat," added Drake.
KERP works in concert with other basins, like Rodeo, Kolb Road, Arroyo Chico and the Cherry Field complex that doubles as home to the Tucson High Magnet School's baseball and softball teams. The campus of THMS is also the site of the High School Wash Box Culvert inlet completed in April. This segment of the Arroyo Chico Multi-use Project greatly reduced the flood risk for more than 1,000 residential, commercial and industrial structures.
Looking at weir 3 and the channel that took the general line of a historic stream that once passed through the site. The stream was diverted for other uses leaving the Willow Patch a low wet area perfect for the cultivation of basket willow - a late 19th century use of the site which we hope to revive.
In 1966, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the Ajo Detention Basin where the present-day Kino Environmental Restoration Project lives.
The basin, in its original state, was effective at flood control, but provided no water harvesting or wildlife habitat.
In the mid 1990s, using the authority of Section 1135, Water Resources Development Act of 1986, that allows the Corps to plan, design and build modifications to existing Corps projects--or areas degraded by Corps projects--to restore aquatic habitats for fish and wildlife, a plan was formed.
"The Corps and stakeholders from Pima County and the Pima County Regional Flood Control District developed a plan for KERP," said John Drake, a senior civil works project manager. "The modified basin created native ecosystems that are environmentally sensitive."
The project also added to the basin's flood control capacity and allowed for storm water harvesting to meet the irrigation needs of the Kino Sports Complex, Sam Lena Park and numerous sites along Ajo Way. The County estimates an average annual savings of $350,000 in irrigation costs since KERP's completion in 2002.
"The County is very progressive in managing the full purpose of the floodplain; flood conveyance, groundwater recharge and fish and wildlife habitat," added Drake.
KERP works in concert with other basins, like Rodeo, Kolb Road, Arroyo Chico and the Cherry Field complex that doubles as home to the Tucson High Magnet School's baseball and softball teams. The campus of THMS is also the site of the High School Wash Box Culvert inlet completed in April. This segment of the Arroyo Chico Multi-use Project greatly reduced the flood risk for more than 1,000 residential, commercial and industrial structures.
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Michael J. Kirwan Dam and Reservoir is one of the district’s 16 flood control projects. It provides miles of clean water and scenic country sides, but on Dec. 17 it provided a snowy view for passerby’s to enjoy.
Since its completion in 1965, Kirwan Reservoir has prevented an estimated $755 million in flood damages. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Julie Stone)
Michael J. Kirwan Dam and Reservoir is one of the district’s 16 flood control projects. It provides miles of clean water and scenic country sides, but on Dec. 17 it provided a snowy view for passerby’s to enjoy.
Since its completion in 1965, Kirwan Reservoir has prevented an estimated $755 million in flood damages. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Julie Stone)
In 1966, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the Ajo Detention Basin where the present-day Kino Environmental Restoration Project lives.
The basin, in its original state, was effective at flood control, but provided no water harvesting or wildlife habitat.
In the mid 1990s, using the authority of Section 1135, Water Resources Development Act of 1986, that allows the Corps to plan, design and build modifications to existing Corps projects--or areas degraded by Corps projects--to restore aquatic habitats for fish and wildlife, a plan was formed.
"The Corps and stakeholders from Pima County and the Pima County Regional Flood Control District developed a plan for KERP," said John Drake, a senior civil works project manager. "The modified basin created native ecosystems that are environmentally sensitive."
The project also added to the basin's flood control capacity and allowed for storm water harvesting to meet the irrigation needs of the Kino Sports Complex, Sam Lena Park and numerous sites along Ajo Way. The County estimates an average annual savings of $350,000 in irrigation costs since KERP's completion in 2002.
"The County is very progressive in managing the full purpose of the floodplain; flood conveyance, groundwater recharge and fish and wildlife habitat," added Drake.
KERP works in concert with other basins, like Rodeo, Kolb Road, Arroyo Chico and the Cherry Field complex that doubles as home to the Tucson High Magnet School's baseball and softball teams. The campus of THMS is also the site of the High School Wash Box Culvert inlet completed in April. This segment of the Arroyo Chico Multi-use Project greatly reduced the flood risk for more than 1,000 residential, commercial and industrial structures.
Stormwater detention pond on south side of Grange Avenue, at 112th Street, in the Village of Hales Corners, Wisconsin. Pond constructed as part of a Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) stormwater flood control project. I don't know the exact date of construction but I believe it was the early 2000s. Photo is from 2006.
Image Title: Falcon Dam
Date: c.1952
Place: Rio Grande, Falcon Heights, Texas
Description/Caption: Building of Falcon Dam on Rio Grande River Falcon Heights, Texas
Medium: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)
Photographer/Maker: Unknown
Cite as: TX-A-0020, WaterArchives.org
Restrictions: There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. While the digital image is freely available, it is requested that www.waterarchives.org be credited as its source. For higher quality reproductions of the original physical version contact www.waterarchives.org, restrictions may apply.
Griffin Dewatering has been in the pump and dewatering business for 75 years. Not only does Griffin have a standard line of pumps to fit most applications, but also specializes in providing pumps to meet a customer’s specific needs. The shown pump had not only specific flow and head requirements, but also suction and discharge height requirements that had to be met. Griffin designed and special built a custom trailer mounted pump package to meet the customer’s need, which included automatic level sensing transducer control that controlled the engine speed to meet the varying flow demands. For more information please visit: www.griffindewatering.com
Outlet structure for "dry" stormwater detention basin on west side of village of Oregon, Wisconsin. The stark geometry of the structure has always appealed to me. A "Stormwater Modernism" style, perhaps?
When the structure was first built, it did not include the green steel plates. Later on, a study analyzing flooding problems on the west side of Oregon determined that this detention basin could hold back additional stormwater runoff and reduce downstream flooding if the outlet was more hydraulically restrictive. The green steel plates seen here were then fabricated and bolted onto the original outlet structure.
This was only one piece of a long-term program to reduce flooding along the Badfish Creek in Oregon, a program which I believe the Village is still implementing.
Location is south side of Jefferson Street, west of Ash Street. Photo taken October 2000.
Apron 2 before placement of the splash slab which prevents low flow from undermining the subbase. The forebay contains what is called the first flush, or the first inch or so of rainfall that has been shown to contain the most sediment, salt and pollutants.
In 1966, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the Ajo Detention Basin where the present-day Kino Environmental Restoration Project lives.
The basin, in its original state, was effective at flood control, but provided no water harvesting or wildlife habitat.
In the mid 1990s, using the authority of Section 1135, Water Resources Development Act of 1986, that allows the Corps to plan, design and build modifications to existing Corps projects--or areas degraded by Corps projects--to restore aquatic habitats for fish and wildlife, a plan was formed.
"The Corps and stakeholders from Pima County and the Pima County Regional Flood Control District developed a plan for KERP," said John Drake, a senior civil works project manager. "The modified basin created native ecosystems that are environmentally sensitive."
The project also added to the basin's flood control capacity and allowed for storm water harvesting to meet the irrigation needs of the Kino Sports Complex, Sam Lena Park and numerous sites along Ajo Way. The County estimates an average annual savings of $350,000 in irrigation costs since KERP's completion in 2002.
"The County is very progressive in managing the full purpose of the floodplain; flood conveyance, groundwater recharge and fish and wildlife habitat," added Drake.
KERP works in concert with other basins, like Rodeo, Kolb Road, Arroyo Chico and the Cherry Field complex that doubles as home to the Tucson High Magnet School's baseball and softball teams. The campus of THMS is also the site of the High School Wash Box Culvert inlet completed in April. This segment of the Arroyo Chico Multi-use Project greatly reduced the flood risk for more than 1,000 residential, commercial and industrial structures.
Brian Szydlik (left), chief of contract administration for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway project, leads a group of representatives from the World Bank on a tour of the spillway's construction site June 19, 2013, in Folsom, Calif. The bank is interested in learning about the latest technology in urban flood control so they can make informed decisions when funding projects. (U.S. Army photo by Todd Plain/Released)
Credit: DWR/Department of Water Resources, California.
Water is released from Folsom Lake and Dam in Calif., as a precaution against flooding, January 13, 2017. The lake's water storage is being reduced to save room for coming storms and snowmelt. Folsom Dam is located in Sacramento County.
Florence Low / California Department of Water Resources
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This is Page one of a press release in the press kit for the Martins Fork Dam Dedication Ceremony held 11 a.m. June 30, 1979 in Smith, Ky. The project was built and is now operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District.
Image Title: Falcon Dam
Date: c.1952
Place: Rio Grande, Falcon Heights, Texas
Description/Caption: Building of Falcon Dam on Rio Grande River Falcon Heights, Texas
Medium: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)
Photographer/Maker: Unknown
Cite as: TX-A-0022, WaterArchives.org
Restrictions: There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. While the digital image is freely available, it is requested that www.waterarchives.org be credited as its source. For higher quality reproductions of the original physical version contact www.waterarchives.org, restrictions may apply.
Image Title: Oahe Dam
Date: June 1956
Place: Missouri River, Pierre, South Dakota
Description/Caption: Oahe Dam Upstream Side of Dam and Tunnels Pierre So. Dak.
Medium: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)
Photographer/Maker: Miller Pic.
Cite as: SD-A-0085, WaterArchives.org
Restrictions: There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. While the digital image is freely available, it is requested that www.waterarchives.org be credited as its source. For higher quality reproductions of the original physical version contact www.waterarchives.org, restrictions may apply.
The forebay is functioning well, it is supporting growth of plants, frogs, and is slowly filling up with sediment. This sediment will be tested to determine exactly what is being kept out of the rated trout stream, The Chittenango Creek.
Multipurpose Watermasters Desilting a stormwater management pond to reduce the risk of flooding, Indonesia.
Keeping urban water bodies (canals, rivers, drains…) well-maintained and clean helps to prevent floods and keep people safe.
East Fork dam on Spring Creek, Fergus Co., MT. PL-566 structure for recreation and flood control. May 2006.
Caterpillar 385B hydraulic excavator.
Installation of a large diameter storm sewer in Estabrook Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 2013. This was part of a stormwater flood control project undertaken by the Village of Whitefish Bay, to carry stormwater runoff from floodprone low areas in Whitefish Bay to an outfall to the Milwaukee River in Estabrook Park. Contractor is Super Excavators Inc. of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
To help alleviate ongoing flooding from Hurricane Irma in Bonita Springs, SFWMD coordinated with Lee County and the City of Bonita Springs to install temporary pumps at a county drainage ditch that flows into the Imperial River. The City is operating the pumps as needed to move water from the ditch south into the District’s Big Cypress Basin system in Collier County, where canals have returned to normal levels and have capacity for the excess water.
In AMC's "Breaking Bad," John B. Robert Dam serves as the pickup point for both Jesse Pinkman and later for Walter White as each waits for the extractor.
The dam is located at Juan Tabo Boulevard and Osuna Road Northeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Records from the Tokugawa years showed places along the far side (east bank) where overflow would go; or breaches could be made to avert worse damage further on. Likewise for the space between today's rail line and the riverbank there tended to be wet ground or sometimes flooding. But after WWII, or the 15 years called the Pacific War in textbooks of Japan, public works and improved industrial technology and know-how resulted in a great deal of cement being poured to reinforce mountain slopes, to create numerous debris dams to delay or defuse the landslide dangers of winter and during typhoon season, precipitated by seismic source like volcano or earthquake, or purely due to water saturation. In addition the paddy field water supply was improved and the river ways were increasingly controlled with upstream reservoirs to moderate low or high water times. There are two such reservoir systems maybe 15 or 20 south of Echizen City so there has been little flood damage in the past couple of generations.
Summer rains and typhoon clouds caused damage downstream in and around Fukui-city, but Echizen City was unharmed. During the most recent alerts from the passing typhoon clouds, the radio read the names of towns upstream and downstream from here, but omitted Echizen City itself as potential in danger. The bridge footings usually stand well above the river's waterline, but on this evening after a day of rain, they were even or slightly under the racing waters.
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Rivermark development under construction at River Oaks Parkway and the Guadalupe River at North First, San Jose, California, as seen from the Santa Clara side of the river.
Can you spot the sad bike with a missing wheel apparently discarded on the side of the levee?
The weirs are the control points between the basins where the flow of stormwater passes from one area to the next. The weirs begin well below grade to prevent their undermining by the sometimes heavy storm flows.
More than 80 second grade students from Cortez Elementary, a math and science magnet school in Pomona, Calif., took a field trip to Prado Dam May 16. The tour included a nearly two-mile trek through the flood control basin up to the dam's 627-foot control tower.
More than 80 second grade students from Cortez Elementary, a math and science magnet school in Pomona, Calif., took a field trip to Prado Dam May 16. The tour included a nearly two-mile trek through the flood control basin up to the dam's 627-foot control tower.
Michael J. Kirwan Dam and Reservoir is one of the district’s 16 flood control projects. It provides miles of clean water and scenic country sides, but on Dec. 17 it provided a snowy view for passerby’s to enjoy.
Since its completion in 1965, Kirwan Reservoir has prevented an estimated $755 million in flood damages. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Julie Stone)