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title: Submersible Chopper Pump Reduces Maintenance Costs
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# [Submersible Chopper Pump Reduces Maintenance Costs](https://www.excelfluidgroup.com/blog/case-studies/reduce-pump-station-maintenance-costs-sithe-case-study)

 Written by [Excel Fluid Group](https://www.excelfluidgroup.com/blog/author/excel-fluid-group) | Apr 9, 2018 5:58:49 PM

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Submersible chopper pump eliminates weekly clogging issues at Southwest Licking County’s lift station in Pataskala, OH.

## SITE

Southwest Licking County is a rural water and wastewater district that covers about 100 square miles. The wastewater treatment plant is designed to handle 2.5 million gallons per day.

## APPLICATION

Sources for this lift station are residential, including a trailer park, and several other lift stations. The sewage is pumped to the wastewater treatment plant.

## PROBLEM

T-shirts, mop heads, ropes, rags and undergarments were clogging the non-clog pumps at the station consistently, and the service team had to unclog the pumps every week. Constant service calls would lead to unnecessary expenditure on man-hours, equipment and fuel.

## SOLUTION

Crane Pumps and Systems devised a solution by providing our new Barnes 4S CMD SITHE 10 HP [submersible chopper pump](https://www.excelfluidgroup.com/submersible-chopper-pumps). Since the installation in June 2017, Barnes SITHE has been chopping and pumping the solids without any need for a service call. We represent numerous pump manufacturers, and our package solutions ensure accurate [product selection](https://www.excelfluidgroup.com/products) for a long-term, cost-effective answer for any application.

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"***SITHE has definitely led to cost savings in man-hours, equipment cost and fuel cost from not having to come out and pull the pump to remove clogs."***

- Matt Pennington, Collection Systems Supervisor

Download the full case study [here](https://www.excelfluidgroup.com/hubfs/industry-resources/SITHE%20Case%20Study.pdf).**<https://www.excelfluidgroup.com/hubfs/industry-resources/SITHE%20Case%20Study.pdf> **

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