What started as a replacement job for a faulty pumping station ended as an end-to-end wastewater management solution that gives Tingvoll Municipality great control and monitoring options – and peace of mind.
“We’re constantly looking for ways to make our operations a little more efficient, and the first step is to know what’s happening in our network” says Egil Betten, technician at Tingvoll Municipality in Norway. “To deliver the service that our citizens and administration expect from us, we need to know the status of all our pumping stations.
The objective: high service levels, optimized resource use Tingvoll Municipality is located on a beautiful peninsula in western Norway, surrounded on three sides by fjords. The well-developed but sparsely populated area includes a 28 km wastewater network with 10 automatic pumping stations managed by the municipal wastewater department. The objectives of the department are clear: delivering high-quality wastewater services while at the same time optimizing the use of staff and equipment resources.
To achieve both of these objectives, Tingvoll Municipality decided to modernize its wastewater network – and the project kicked off with a pressing issue that needed to be addressed: The old pumps in one automatic pumping station needed to be replaced. As Tingvoll Municipality were not satisfied with the manufacturer’s service, they looked around for another partner and called Grundfos to get a quote for a replacement pumping station.
