The town of Exeter, New
Hampshire's Kingston Road booster pumping station was hard-pressed to meet its existing needs,
much less the demands of a proposed new 142-unit retirement community. The town found the
proposed development to be the final straw in pushing peak demands beyond the capacity of the
265-gallon-per-minute (gpm) station, but in the end was provided a modernized station of
sufficient capacity, free of charge, pumping more flow with less electrical consumption.
In accordance with its policy, the town required the developer to pay for all review, design
engineering, and physical improvements to the station. At the town's request, CDM modeled the
water distribution system to evaluate the impacts to the suction side of the booster pumping
station. While the analysis revealed that increasing the pump station capacity from 265 to 350
gpm would have a negligible impact (less than 1 psi) on system pressures on the suction side of
the pump station, the facility lacked the firm capacity needed to pump this flow with one pump
out of service. A review of the affected wastewater collection and pumping systems was also
performed, although the sewerage system is beyond the scope of this paper. Includes figures.
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| Published : | 06/01/2006 |
