What happens with the grinder pumps if electrical power goes out?
The grinder pumps will not operate without electricity. Most of the sewer service area is served by private wells, and these would also cease to operate in a power outage, so water would not be used nor wastewater generated in an outage. The pump chamber will provide volume for approximately a day’s worth of wastewater storage to accommodate outages. As an additional measure the systems will be supplied with special plugs so that portable generators could be used to pump down the chambers in the case of a prolonged power failure.
