What’s a contingency plan?

A contingency plan is a multi-page document that lists:

• Equipment your community needs to keep your operations up and running
• 24/7 contact info for your Xylem Emergency Team
• Site conditions and access information
• Directions to your location

Sure, it sounds simple, but it’s an incredibly important document that reduces stress and ensures you get the equipment you need when you’ll need it the most before an emergency arises.

A plan made for you

Xylem has helped thousands of companies and communities prepare, protect and minimize damage from devastating events. Let one of our pump experts help you create a personalized contingency plan that identifies the right strategies, rental equipment and resources for your operations. Meet one-on-one with a rental specialist who will tailor a plan to match where you are on the map with the right equipment and what you want to protect.

Resources

• Download a sample contingency plan
• Why you need a SSO contingency plan
• Stop an SSO before it starts
• 6 signs your headed for an SSO

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Act sets out emission reduction standards for diesel engines. The standards demand a reduction in the six common criteria pollutants – particulate matter (PM), ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide and lead. Implementation of the standards has occurred in stages, or tiers, with the deadline for compliance under the final stage – Final Tier 4 (FT4) – now looming.

Diesel engines in every industry, in every application, from large-scale marine engines to small landscape equipment engines, are subject to these regulations. While deadlines are contingent on engine size, FT4 engine requirements will be fully implemented for all off road diesel engines by the end of 2018. 

Whether you work in construction, mining, municipal wastewater or at an industrial plant, the emission reduction technologies on Final Tier 4 (FT4) diesel engines for portable pumps are no doubt on your mind. Xylem is here to help. 

To learn more, click here to download our field guide. In this guide, our experts explain how we balance diesel power generation with maintenance efficiency, safety and environmental responsibility to continue our commitment to meet peak performance and a green industry.

Xylem's flexible manufacturing process allows for fast turnaround of equipment, designed and built to your specifications. Our engineers ensure that you have the right equipment for your job and utilize the most current tools to design and engineer everything from new pump models to large-scale or highly-complex pump systems.

We offer the following options and more. If you don't see what you are looking for, just ask!

Custom pumps for your applications:

• We can purchase pumps from other Pump Manufacturers and couple them to diesel engines or electric motors
• Small end suction centrifugal pumps
• Positive displacement pumps (duplex and triplex piston pumps / slide vane pumps / rotary lobe pumps)
• Large multi-stage, high pressure pumps

Drivers:

• TEFC electric motors are standard, but Chemical Duty or Explosion Proof motors are also available
• Electric motors available in 460 volt, 575 volt and 4160 volt
• Variety of diesel engine manufacturers, including John Deere, Caterpillar, Yanmar, JCB, Kubota, Isuzu and Volvo
• Diesel, natural gas or liquid propane engines

Skids/trailers:

• Larger fuel tanks on skid bases
• Custom heavy duty skids for mine site applications (designed to be moved with a skid-steer)
• Trailers available with hose racks, baskets and toolboxes
• Manifolds and valves mounted on the trailer

Critically silenced enclosures:

• Work lights on the outside and/or inside of the enclosure
• AC/DC Inverters
• GFCI Receptacles
• Strobe lights for operation

Custom paint:

• Colors to blend into the environment (DBS units in tan or green)
• Colors to match your other equipment

Electric equipment:

• Custom VFDs
• Soft start controllers
• PLCs
• Manifolds, Filter Pots & Road Ramps

Our broad range of Godwin and Flygt pumping equipment combined with extensive application experience means that you get the right solution to meet your specific needs.

Xylem is more than just dewatering pumps. We offer a portfolio of services that helps your business run at peak performance. Our services are backed by our technical field service and engineering teams who have extensive application knowledge and experience that ensures we get the job done right the first time.

Our teams of dedicated project engineers assess your application needs by undertaking feasibility studies, strategy, and planning sessions. Our engineers will take you from initial concept to detailed design and specification. In addition, our team will verify that the system design meets all health, safety and environmental requirements. All important steps of your project can be planned and measured to reach your milestones and meet your deadlines.

How do you prepare for the future demands to solve water challenges?

At Xylem, this is something we think about every day. What are the emerging needs, and the new contaminants of concern? What is the next level needed to ensure that communities have clean, abundant water? How can wastewater management be improved to protect the environment and downstream users? How can these same processes be used in other industrial applications? How can we make our products and solutions more sustainable, energy efficient, safer, and easier to operate?

Xylem’s global product development centers are studying the answers to these questions. Our interdisciplinary teams of experts combine their in-depth knowledge of treating and transporting water and wastewater with an understanding of the demands of the industries we serve. Xylem’s commitment to research drives innovative solutions that produce measurable benefits.

Many research and development centers - many solutions for many challenges

Our engineers design and create products and solutions with a single goal in mind: solving the world’s most challenging water problems. We specialize in providing equipment and services for water and wastewater applications, from collection and distribution to the return of water to the environment.

We are also committed to improving energy consumption and reducing maintenance costs by developing energy-saving pump systems that include superior water and wastewater pumps, pump stations, monitoring & control equipment, and a full range of services.

Xylem continues to explore, develop, test and prove the technologies that industries and communities will rely on tomorrow. Our product development teams are working hard to ensure that customers will be ready for whatever comes next. Developing tomorrow’s solutions today – that’s our commitment.

Together we can do it. Let's prepare for tomorrow. Let's solve water.

At Xylem, system engineering is the science that is necessary to achieve the optimal solution to satisfy your needs. The most common example of this is sizing and selection of the right pump and piping systems for a given application. By combining a broad product portfolio with an experienced global design team, Xylem enables you to take on jobs of all sizes.

System design

System design is important when moving water and other fluids containing solids because it helps avoid solids settling and pump clogging. A badly designed system will cost more and be ineffective in energy usage. It can also create an unsafe work environment.

Big jobs

At Xylem, we know big jobs. When working pressure, flow rate, pumping distance, total dynamic head, and even pumping a particular product are outside your comfort level, we can help. Call upon the big job experts for application experience with nearly every pumping variable in virtually every pumping condition.

When you choose Xylem, you have our experienced people on your side from start to finish. Our sales engineers ensure that you purchase the right equipment for your job, whether it's routine site drainage or a large, complex sewer bypass project.

Our trained sales engineers will work beside you on everything from job walks and bid specifications to product installation, in an effort to ensure you leverage all of Xylem’s in-house expertise.

Sales and rental expertise

For sales and rentals, our applications engineers design pumping systems specific to your applications. You need to be sure that the system will fit the job site before a single pump is shipped. Our product design and applications engineers are backed by more than 100 years of combined experience, with expertise to help you choose the right pump for your rental application.

Whether the job is big or small, our people work hard to provide the extra attention and support needed to make your job run smoothly.