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David G

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I posted some pictures of motors down a few posts, but will group them together here.

This is a well project that was started almost 3 years ago, the general botched the job, so between that and flooding it has sat most of the time.

We finally got to bump motors today, will probably move water through it next week.

It can deliver up to 17 million gallons per day.


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I have run a ton of pumps in my career, it will work "if" the mechanical engineer sized the pumps correctly.

The motors are 400 HP on VFD's.
 
The city where I live has a river running through it, they are blessed with a sand aquifer about 100 foot deep along the river. They had many single sand points, and are replacing them with a few of these horizontal collector wells. There are 18" tiles about 75' down in the sand that go out about 1/8 mile from the caisson. The sand filters the water that the river replenishes the aquifer. It does amaze me it does not suck the river dry.
 
Here's a crack at a description David: bunch of mechanical or crude material objects that some "hipsters" threw together and called art while smoking reefer and not washing their hair or looking for an actual job.

Ross
 
Nice!

Most people look at that and can't in their wildest imagination guess what something like that costs!

And the engineering involved in getting it right!

And the consequences of getting it wrong!
 
We bid on a well upgrade and new building some years ago. Nothing that large, we had trouble finding subcontractors that would quote the electric, plumbing, ect. We submitted a complete bid, others submitted partial bids without plumbing, electric ect, bids were opened, no contract awarded and it was put out for rebid. We didn't rebid because now everyone knew our price before they submitted their complete bids. We didn't think that was right.
 
That looks like a lot of the stuff I worked on during my Pipefitter career. Worked on some 96" pipes at the Midland, MI nuclear powerhouse, and many 48" systems.
 
(quoted from post at 03:44:59 05/04/19) We bid on a well upgrade and new building some years ago. Nothing that large, we had trouble finding subcontractors that would quote the electric, plumbing, ect. We submitted a complete bid, others submitted partial bids without plumbing, electric ect, bids were opened, no contract awarded and it was put out for rebid. We didn't rebid because now everyone knew our price before they submitted their complete bids. We didn't think that was right.
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SMS, I once had a situation where I was bidding on a county contract. I had had the contract for a long time, then a new department head came in and he wanted the big national company, so when they opened the bids he allowed his favorite to change the way they submitted it which actually completely changed their obligation. A rep from another company was there and cried foul. He called me and told me that he was forcing the issue, because it was so crooked. The commissioners got involved and it was rebid, and I got it but that was the last year.
 
My municipal well project experience is this: it took over a year for the entire system to pass the water sterilization test. Good luck.
 
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