Peck Reservoir Pump Station Improvements

Huntington Beach, CA

In order to increase reliability and redundancy, the City of Huntington Beach hired PACE to design improvements to the existing booster pump station at the Peck Reservoir site. The site contains many different facilities, including import connection, two reservoirs, one booster pump station, and three water wells. Two of the three main water wells and the pump station engine were originally run by natural gas engines. The proposed new hybrid system includes four new motors using energy from Southern California Edison as a source to supplement the existing natural gas engines and allow the system to run on natural gas or electrical power.

A new transformer station was also built outside of the booster pump station. Since the motor sits high, PACE designed a compact, practical platform below the motor to allow easy accessibility and operation. This redundant system allows for a self-sufficient, reliable booster pump station that can be run in the event of a power outage, earthquake, natural gas line break, or engine failure, providing water to the drinking water system regardless of circumstance. The retrofit will enable all of the wells to run on hybrid electric power.

This facility is also located at a rehabilitation site, so space was tight and there were many marked and unmarked underground conduits. PACE was able to snake additional as-needed conduits in the ground to improve and clean up the existing conditions.

Key Features:

• Redundancy reliability for existing booster pump station
• Operational serviceability using false floor design
• Organized conduits within the bank to make it safe and practical
• Small site footprint
• Pump station ventilation improvements