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Commissioners press utilities staff after vacuum-sewer pump fire; $2M station rebuild underway
Summary
A vacuum-sewer pump at Park Avenue overheated and caught fire; commissioners criticized ongoing equipment failures and asked staff to explain spare-parts status and the timeline for a planned $2 million pump-station rebuild. Staff said contractor Carr & Collier is rebuilding the station and that emergency repairs and spare pumps were secured.
Commissioners pressed Sanford utilities staff on June 9 after a vacuum-sewer pump at the Park Avenue station overheated, caught fire and temporarily prompted a field shutdown; no injuries were reported and the fire department extinguished the blaze.
Brent Johnson, Sanford’s Public Works and Utilities director, briefed the commission that staff first responded to problems at the vacuum station about 8 a.m. the morning of the incident, that one pump had been out of service and that a second pump overheated because it was cycling incorrectly and drawing excessive amperage. Johnson said a vendor-delivered pump that had been requisitioned was installed shortly after midnight and another refurbished…
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