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Portland's New Water Pumping and Hydropower Station

by Steven E. Simonson, CRS Sirrine Inc, Northwest Div, Portland, OR, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Hydraulics and Hydrology in the Small Computer Age

Abstract:

The City of Portland, Oregon, recently placed into service a 100 mgd pumping station as a major milestone in developing a backup and emergency groundwater supply. The facility is also designed to serve as a five megawatt hydropower generating station. Both the pumping station and the groundwater supply wells are controlled through a computerized control system. A critical element of the facility design was the control of hydraulic transients due to the sensitivity of the existing supply pipelines. Computer modeling performed as a part of design has been confirmed by the results of power failure and load rejection commissioning tests performed to date.

Subject Headings: Pumping stations | Hydro power | Power plants | Control systems | Hydraulic design | Groundwater supply | Computer models | Oregon | United States

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