Sanitary Sewer and Pump Stations
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Illustration showing a house with a normal,
gravitational, waste pipe system
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What is a sewage pumping station?
How Sewage Systems Function
•A sewage system is made up of a network of pipes
that carry sewage from home and businesses to the
main sewers.
•Ordinarily, the network of pipes relies on gravity for
the waste to flow into the main sewer.
•However, in low-lying areas where the main sewer
sits on higher ground than the domestic sewage pipes,
the sewage needs to be transported to the main
sewer in a different way. This is where sewage
pumping stations come in.
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•A pumping station is made up of a large tank, known
as a wet well, that acts as the receiver for sewage from
a building or a group of buildings.
•Sewage from individual houses flows into the wet
well.
•The sewage will then sit in the well until it reaches a
predetermined level.
•Once it reaches this level, a pump will kick in to
pressurise the sewage so that it will travel out of the
wet well, uphill, to a point where it enters the main
sewer, or that it can then travel into the main sewer
using gravity.
What is a sewage pumping station and how does it
work?
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House making use of sewage pumping station.
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