Why Is Lift Station Maintenance Important?

Lift stations are important components of any municipal sewer and waste management system. These lift stations maintain the sewage flow in low areas to prevent backups. Though these stations do run on their own, lift station pumping in Las Vegas, NV is still necessary, and here’s why.

What Is a Lift Station?

Stretches of public sewer systems maintain the flow of a municipality or city’s collective waste through gravity-fed lines, which run from high to low elevations. These systems require lift station cleaning as multiple low points can occur down the length of the sewer line. What a sewage lift station does is that it automatically pumps wastewater out of these low points to higher ground where the wastewater can resume its gravity-assisted flow.

Needless to say, lift station maintenance is essential to the operation of a lift station.

Why It’s Important to Maintain Lift Stations

Although lift stations can work automatically, they can still accumulate effluent and waste byproducts that bacteria and the lift stations are unable to break down or process. The team at Las Vegas Septic Service uses a sewage ejector pump to remove these solids to a specialized tanker truck, which will then carry the waste to a proper disposal location and ensure lift station pipes remain free of clogs.

Clogs can lead to system backups, potentially causing damage to the sewage lift station and leading to costly system repairs and replacement. Regular preventive maintenance, on the other hand, is much less costly and a more economical approach.

Contact the Experts

At Las Vegas Septic Service, we’re a team that makes sure that lift stations are clean and well-maintained so they can continue to function properly and operate as needed. Our pump maintenance experts help ensure that these high-powered in-house ejector pumps continue to serve the city as designed.

For commercial and residential lift station cleaning and maintenance by a skilled and dependable team, contact Las Vegas Septic Service today to set up an appointment.