Pump sets offer solution

摘要

Bedford Pumps has sup plied a permanent means of addressing an ongoing problem with three vertical turbine pumps installed in a new pumping station at Welmore Lake Sluice in Norfolk. Welmore Lake Sluice is an Environment Agency (EA) asset that controls water levels in the River Delph and the Ouse Washes Flood Storage Reservoir. Its normal function is to gravity discharge winter flood water from the Ouse Washes Flood Storage Reservoir into the tidal River Gt Ouse. Once the level in the reservoir has dropped to the point where gravity discharge through the sluice is no longer possible, the remaining flood-water is then pumped down to summer retention level. In order to achieve this, small land drainage pumps and temporary diesel pumps were previously used as required.