E-1, Enviromental One Pumps - 508-838-9645

In the past, many home and businesses had to be built in lower elevation to city sewer and relied on having septic systems to process sewage coming out of the home or place of business.

Today, those same homes can delete the lines going out to the septic system, get rid of the septic system entirely and be connected to city sewer.  This is accomplished by adding a lift pump.  Lift pumps literally pump the sewage from a pit up to the city sewer in much the same way a small sewage ejector pump does.

The famed lift pump in New England is the Environmental One Pump.  These are easy to service lift pumps installed in a pit somewhere inline with the sewer line coming from your home or place of business.  The pit fills to a pre-determined level established by a series of float switches.  When the sewage reaches the level of the first float switch, the float rises and tips, using mercury or some other metallic conductor to complete a circuit.  When the circuit is complete, a pump activates and lifts sewage to the level of the city sewer.  Now the home is connected to city sewer.

The pump itself has the ability to grind solids.  However, do be careful for what you allow to go down the drain.  Disposable wipes, for instance do not do well.  Neither do feminine hygiene products or grease. 

Grease is something that collects in the pump by virtue of washing dishes.  We can do our best to practice not allowing grease to go down the drain.  However, it will eventually accumulate in the pit just by doing dishes. 

The following picture illustrates that grease and disposable wipes will accumulate on the float system and other components of the E-1 pump.

As stated, we can prevent E-1 failure by not allowing disposable wipes to enter the E-1 pit.  However, grease will need to be cleaned away from the float surface as it will weigh the float down and not permit the float to rise, and complete the circuit for activating the pump.