Babcock Pump Station RTC
About this project
The Buffalo Sewage Authority (BSA) is working together with the Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on a 20-year Long Term Control Plan (LTCP). This plan is focused on significantly improving water quality of the local water bodies and waterways. A portion of the LTCP involves improvements to the existing sewer system.
The Babcock Pump Station RTC project will reduce combined sewer overflows by controlling flow to the Bird Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in wet weather. This RTC project is proposed to modify the function of an existing pump station to utilize available capacity of a large sewer to provide flow control measures during wet weather events. The project location is at the existing pump station on New Babcock Street at Howard Street. This RTC project is proposed to utilize available capacity within the collection system to reduce the peak flow into the Swan Trunk. Together with other LTCP projects, this project is projected to reduce discharges to the Buffalo River.
Babcock Pump Station operates as an RTC facility to store flows in an upstream 11 ft by 11 ft box culvert during wet weather. The modification project redirects flow from a 48” sewer to the box culvert instead of the sewer downstream of the pump station. This increases the in-line storage utilization and reduces the flow sent to the Swan Trunk in wet weather.
This project was completed in March of 2024.
What are the benefits?
REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF NUTRIENTS FLOWING INTO THE BUFFALO RIVER DURING STORM EVENTS AND IMPROVE WATER QUALITY
