Floating Pumping System Saves Customer $12 Million PUMPS • TANKS • FILTRATION • PIPE • SPILLGUARDS 800 742 7246 rainforrent.com BACKGROUND In order to create more storage space for natural gas, propane and butane at a storage facility, a gas storage company drills into natural salt domes using water to create a cylindrical cavity. The resulting brine water is pumped into reservoir ponds lined with a series of thick protective plastic sheathing. One of the ponds that holds two billion gallons of brine water, was discovered to have been torn. The facility needed a temporary water conveyance system to empty the pond and make the necessary repairs. OUTCOME Rain for Rent designed a floating pump station to move the water out over the bank of the pond, across a road and down into a seco

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