Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 3.0: Texas DOT Pump Station Monitoring System

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Drainage Road Weather Information Systems Water Pumps Weather Conditions Weather Forecasting
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The San Antonio District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) installed monitoring systems in six storm water pump stations in locations where the roadway is below natural ground level. The pump stations are used to lift storm water to an elevation where the outflow can enter the gravity flow storm drainage system. The Monitoring Systems are used to determine the status of the pumps, determine the level of water in the wet wells, and provide an approximate time until the location floods. Before the monitoring systems were installed, maintenance crews had to visit each pump location during rain events to ascertain the status of the pumping equipment. The monitoring systems allow the maintenance crews to visit only the sites where maintenance issues and/or flood conditions require. The units were originally installed in 2000, but were recently upgraded at a cost of $13,000 each.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/63485/dot_63485_DS1.pdf
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