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A Drip Irrigation System is a type of drain field that includes a a pump tank. Only very well treated wastewater enters the Pump Tank. The pump sitting in the bottom of the tank pumps the wastewater through a disc filter to be sure that no solids can escape the tank. The treated wastewater is then pumped through the 1.25″ feed line which leads to the 0.5″ drip lines. The 0.5″ drip lines are installed throughout the field around 6-8″ in depth. Each line has emitters that distribute the water throughout the drain field. Whatever treated wastewater the soil doesn’t absorb during the pump cycle is returned to the pump tank do be distributed the next pump cycle, therefore never letting the soil be given more water than it can handle.

The tanks will need to be cleaned out to remove any sludge that has escaped the treatment tank. Sludge in the drip tank can clog and ruin the pump and possibly the entire drip system.

It"s important that the sump pit is large enough, but not too large. When placed in a small pit, a sump pump can pump water out faster than it can fill the liner, causing them to turn on and off quickly and burn out sooner. Sump pits that are too large tend to go too deeply into the ground, pumping out water far below your home, causing unnecessary work and electricity usage.

Sump pumps are most effective at removing water from under your basement floor when located in the lowest spot of the floor. Your certified waterproofing specialist will determine where that spot is by using a laser level. If the sump cannot be located in the low spot, a PVC feed line should be run through the floor from the low spot to the sump pump location.

The purpose of this drain is to collect water from the basement wall-floor joint, the basement walls and from under the basement floor, and direct it to the installed sump pump.

An airtight sump pump lid including rubber grommets around all pipes and wires, keeps odors and humidity from rising out of the sump pit, while also preventing items and debris from falling in from the basement floor. Having an airtight, secure lid on your liner is also excellent in preventing animals and children from attempting to play in the water!

If you have a secondary pump installed in the pit, an additional discharge line will be installed. This prevents the pipes from being overwhelmed and also ensures the pumps won"t pump back and forth between each other. Discharge lines should NEVER be tied together on the inside of your home!

To allow for future testing or inspection, Woods Basement Systems, Inc. will install several "ports" in the perimeter drain, where a hose or dehumidifier drainage line can be inserted. During annual checkups and sump pump maintenance, this helps us with testing and inspection.

If you don"t already have one installed, be sure to ask about our battery backup sump pumps, as well as our basement wall coverings, efficient dehumidifier, waterproof basement flooring, and other basement products that can add energy efficiency, beauty, and comfort to your home.

When you decide it"s time to waterproof the basement and install a sump pump in your home, we are ready to help! We offer free, no-obligation inspections and written sump pump installation quotes to all homeowners in our Illinois & Missouri service area.

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“St. Louis alone would be an all-sufficient theme; for who can doubt that this prosperous metropolis is destined to be one of the mighty centers of our mighty Republic?”

Curt Skouby, Director of Public Utilities for the City of St. Louis, and I had been talking about how eighty-four percent of the American West is currently in various levels of drought, with warming temperatures and a failed precipitation cycle promising worse to come. Even bigger problems, once-in-a-millennium problems, may lie ahead for both its cities and agriculture.

St. Louis was founded on the bank of a river, of course, an old-school practice. Water is life, as the Native American communities say. But the Mississippi is not just any river; it has the largest drainage basin on the continent, drawing from 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. Curt has worked for the Water Division since 1986, and in 2008 was put in charge of clean water for the city, which draws from that seemingly-inexhaustible source.

Having reached a certain age last week, I wondered suddenly what benefits and challenges St. Louis has had with its water, and what it will face in the Anthropocene. I drove to the Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant, just north of the city, and met Curt for a tour.

Muddy water swelled as it reached the hidden dam, and whitewater broke over the remains of a jetty that once went to Tower #1. The two bridges and intake towers were dwarfed by the mass of water sliding by.

Both intake towers can send water through seven-foot, brick-lined tunnels to the treatment plant, which sprawls most of a mile along the Missouri shore, off Riverview Drive. (There is a second treatment plant for St. Louis, on the Missouri River, called Howard Bend.)

Muddy water swelled as it reached the hidden dam, and whitewater broke over the remains of a jetty that once went to Tower #1. The two bridges and intake towers were dwarfed by the mass of water sliding by.

The front-loader’s wheels slipped into the river and spun wildly to get out. A massive block of limestone sitting in the liminal zone of mud, sand, and water suddenly began to float and wobble, like a rubber ducky, in the front-loader slosh. I reached for the handrail. Curt pointed out it was Styrofoam that probably got loose from a dock somewhere upstream.

Modern water systems are such a big story that it is easy to forget how brief it is. My great-grandfather was alive when St. Louis was still scooping its water from the Mississippi in barrels at the end of Walnut Street, where the Gateway Arch is now, and pulling it from wells and cisterns.

James P. Kirkwood, a Scots civil engineer who spent most of his career building waterworks and railroads in the United States, became Chief Engineer of St. Louis in 1865 and was in charge of St. Louis’ water. His plan for a treatment plant to filter river water through sand was rejected by the Board of Water Commissioners, who thought filters unnecessary and expensive. Such a plant would have made St. Louis among the most advanced cities on the planet for public health. When his advice was ignored, twice, Kirkwood moved on (and was replaced by Walt Whitman’s younger brother). He built a similar system for Poughkeepsie, New York, instead.

The plan, which he did not invent, was simple, yet so effective it still underlies most water treatment. Water would be pumped into basins, where heavy particulates would drop out of the water column. The top layer of water would be drained, leaving sediment that could be washed from the basins back into the river. The water would then be filtered through a deep layer of sand on top of gravel on top of rocks. No one realized it then, but this process formed a bacterial mat on the sand that helped kill harmful microbes. We might not accept the resulting water as potable by our standards, but it was a huge step.

A few years later, in 1869, a new board commissioned Kirkwood to travel abroad and write a report on The Filtration of River Waters, for the Supply of Cities, as Practiced in Europe. In it he explains that London’s cholera epidemic of 1866 was caused by sewer runoff from villages in the Thames and Lea valleys, a similar danger for St. Louis as population grew. Before the concept of germ theory, he claims that sand filters are important to filter out “the many organisms, vegetable or animal, which in river waters prevail more or less during certain of the summer months.”

St. Louis, which relied solely throughout the nineteenth century on rudimentary reservoirs and “settling basins,” instead of filtering plants, had several epidemics from fecal-contaminated water, including a cholera outbreak in 1848-49 that killed almost 10 percent of the city.

By the time of a report in 1885, titled The Sanitary Condition of St. Louis, with Special Reference to Asiatic Cholera, the growing city had had four disastrous outbreaks, but at least infection was understood.

St. Louis, which relied solely throughout the nineteenth century on rudimentary reservoirs and “settling basins,” instead of filtering plants, had several epidemics from fecal-contaminated water, including a cholera outbreak in 1848-49 that killed almost 10 percent of the city.

Curt Skouby said, “They were able to start water treatment for the World’s Fair, could have the wherewithal to raise rates and start treatment, because they didn’t want to be embarrassed by having muddy water coming out of the fountains when the world [came] to St. Louis. They didn’t do it because of health reasons; they did it because they didn’t want to get embarrassed. I mean, it’s just kind of the nature of things, and sometimes the right things are done maybe for the wrong reason, but you get to where you need to be.”

In 1865, the same year Kirkwood first suggested a water treatment plant in St. Louis, Chicago planners decided to expand a rudimentary canal that would flush the city’s waste westward, instead, into the Des Plaines River, which led to the Illinois River and then the Mississippi. In 1892 work was finally begun. It was a massive project that gave a generation of engineers the experience to dig the Panama Canal.

City officials in St. Louis were concerned. Chicago officials, displaying a very American selfishness, said not to worry about it; their filth would be diluted by the time it reached St. Louis. St. Louis petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent the canal from opening, but Chicago learned of it and raced to finish. In 1900 the Chicago River was reversed.

“And it is worthy of mention here that the old inhabitants of our city are so far from being averse to this admixture of sedimentary matter, that they almost regret that the new works now in construction will furnish them settled or clear water,” says L.U. Reavis in St. Louis: The Future Great City of the World, in a chapter titled, “Water as an Important Auxiliary to the Growth of a Great City, and the Advantage possessed by St. Louis for an Inexhaustible Supply.”

Twain says, of St. Louis water specifically, in Life on the Mississippi (1883), “It comes out of the turbulent, bank-caving Missouri, and every tumblerful of it holds nearly an acre of land in solution. I got this fact from the bishop of the diocese. If you will let your glass stand half an hour, you can separate the land from the water as easy as Genesis. . . . ”

Reavis says St. Louis water was praised by a “daguerrean artist, whose business demands the purest water,” and that sailors swore it kept better and tasted better than any other water. He claims to have bottled water from the Mississippi at Chain of Rocks and drunk it 17 years later. He declared it excellent. (Curt told me St. Louis water is “naturally kind of hard, which helps with the stability of it,” but trapped in a bottle for 17 years “the disease-causing organism starved to death for lack of a host. Not going to go bad in that respect.”)

Twain says, of St. Louis water specifically, in Life on the Mississippi (1883), “It comes out of the turbulent, bank-caving Missouri, and every tumblerful of it holds nearly an acre of land in solution. I got this fact from the bishop of the diocese. If you will let your glass stand half an hour, you can separate the land from the water as easy as Genesis. . . . But the natives do not take them separately, but together, as nature mixed them. When they find an inch of mud in the bottom of a glass, they stir it up, and then take the draught as they would gruel. It is difficult for a stranger to get used to this batter, but once used to it he will prefer it to water.”

The amount of lime, the preferred treatment material, needed for a city the size of St. Louis was deemed prohibitive, but a Washington University graduate named John Wixford discovered a method using slaked lime that was more efficient.

The floc, as it is called—flakes or clumps—sank to the bottom, making “purer, clearer water than St. Louis residents had ever seen.” The amount of lime, the preferred treatment material, needed for a city the size of St. Louis was deemed prohibitive, but a Washington University graduate named John Wixford discovered a method using slaked lime that was more efficient.

A more rapid filtration than the slow-sand method was added to treatment in the next years, and, “By 1915,” as the article points out, “the city of St. Louis had done much more than build the nation’s largest state-of-the-art filtration facility. It had created [at Chain of Rocks] what is considered the first modern water purification plant in the United States, a facility incorporating all of the major elements of treatment technology that would be used by other municipalities around the country,” including “coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and chlorination. Decades later, the process had been improved but followed essentially the same sequence. . . . ”

There are other technologies to disinfect water now, from the backpacker’s sippy-straw to pressurized, reverse-osmosis systems. What determines the use of this type of facility for St. Louis is scale. No other method could produce so much clean water so quickly, but it takes time, process, planning, science, technology, and chemicals.

After water comes in at the intake tower, it goes to a wet well, then to a primary pump station—a large brick building, several stories high, with watertight doors in case of river flood. In the old days, its pumps were steam engines that rose 30 feet or more to the ceiling and had their own crews. In the historical literature, two steam engines in the St. Louis waterworks were said to be the second or third-largest in the world. They had 36-ton flywheels, and one had an 85-inch piston with a 10-foot stroke. These days the pumps are much smaller, centrifugal, and electric. Twenty-seven pumps of various sizes are used in combination as needed.

The pumps lift water into four open-air “pre-sed” (sedimentation) basins that capture sand, silt, and other heavy particles. The water is collected over a weir and flows through a channel into three softening basins that look like mixing bowls the size of your house.

In both methods, water flows down through sand on a gravel bed. In slow-sand filters, however, operators had to skim the sand of impurities and replace it often as it clogged with mud. In the rapid-sand method, the flow of water is reversed every three days or so to flush out floc and particles. In this way, the “media”—sand, gravel, rocks—can last 10 to 20 years, at which point it has become a soft concrete.

“We pump twice as much at night and on weekends as during normal hours of the work week,” Curt said. “Electrical rates are cheaper at night and in off hours, and the electrical company doesn’t have to build the infrastructure to meet instantaneous demands of a system.”

There is a preoccupation, in old texts about waterworks, with how many gallons, per capita, a system could deliver, per day, to its city, whether it was ancient Rome, Victorian London, or Quincy, Illinois. (St. Louis produces, on average, 355 gallons per person—a misleading figure, because industrial use is factored in.)

Curt [Skouby, Director of Public Utilities for the City of St. Louis] laughed when I reminded him that a pamphlet from the Water Division’s 1956 Diamond Jubilee says it cost a penny to deliver 50 gallons that year. But the cost now is just 11.8 cents per 50 gallons, only 1.8 percent over inflation from 65 years ago.

Curt and I discussed potential problems for St. Louis’ water future. He acknowledged the danger of another New Madrid earthquake but believes “that’s on a several-hundred year cycle, and probably won’t happen in our lifetime.” Other natural forces, such as freezing conditions that create ice dams, can make supply somewhat unpredictable.

Curt Skouby said, “St. Louis could easily support [the water needs of] the population of any of these cities, or any probably two of these cities,” struggling with water scarcity. I was startled. “You could supply water to a couple of LAs?” I said.

In fact, he said, “St. Louis could easily support [the water needs of] the population of any of these cities, or any probably two of these cities,” struggling with water scarcity.

But water is ultimately more important than anything but air. One wonders, in the Anthropocene, as temperatures rise, farming zones move north, and potable water becomes scarcer, what more St. Louis and other big-river cities might become.

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