A quick response from an ABB authorised value provider ensured that Anglian Water avoided the risk of a sewage leak by loaning a variable speed drive (VSD) at one of its pumping stations.
Gibbons Engineering Group supplied a 110 kW drive as part of its hire scheme when a fault in an existing unit put a pump out of action at the Great Stampbridge pumping station.
Anglian Water’s Brad Colledge says: “With the loss of one pump, our pumping capacity was seriously reduced. If we had lost another pump, we would have faced the risk of the incoming flow exceeding the outgoing flow, leading to a serious danger of a sewage overflow from the site that could contaminate local water courses.”
The hire drive was in operation the next day and operated for three weeks while the regular drive was being repaired by Gibbons.
