Brandywine Pump Station I & I Reduction- Equalization Tank
Jeffrey J. Filarski, PE – Project Engineer & Construction Administrator
This project, spanning Euclid and Richmond Heights, was the result of a Findings and Orders with USEAP to improve the City of Euclid’s wastewater collection and treatment system.
One of the projects involved the reduction of separate sanitary sewer overflows (SSO’s) to the environment, in this case the discharge was to Euclid Creek, a tributary of Lake Erie.
The final design of resulted in a storage tank for to capture wet weather sanitary sewer overflows so the number of overflows per year was limited to a total of four.
In order to achieve this goal, a 100,000 gallon equalization tank for storage of wet weather flows that exceed the pumping capacity was installed in a very confined area in a ravine between two residential streets, with one side being in Richmond Hts, and the other side in Euclid.
The tank will store and discharge all flows without any additional equipment, reducing maintenance requirements for the pump station.
Chagrin Valley Engineering’s project responsibilities included review of flow data, existing conditions survey, improvement plans and specifications, approvals from the Ohio EPA Dept. of Environmental Finance, project bidding and award recommendation, full construction management including construction observation.
The project began in June 2017 and was completed in May of 2018.