Another Pump Station Upgrade

If you haven't gathered from my multiple posts regarding irrigation, it is a very important component to golf courses located in the South West Region.  The programming of the central computer and field satellites are only useful if a water source, electricity, a pump station capable of supplying the demand, and field piping infrastructure are present.


A pump station typically contains primary components including a CPU panel (with it's own software), high horse power motors, pump bowls, and intake and discharge pipes.  At certain points in an irrigation cycle the demand will exceed the performance of a motor/pump and a second motor/pump will be called upon to account for this demand.  In this situation, a high pressure window can occur (especially in our circumstances here where we do not have a VFD to operate our motors).  The newest addition to ACC's Irrigation pump station is a 3" High Pressure Relief Cla-Val.  This apparatus discharges water/pressure from the mainline pipe within the pump station when the pressure reaches a set "high pressure" point.  This is a safety mechanism in place to protect over pressurization of our old piping system and limit the pipe breakage that can result from repeated high pressure situations.