Outdoor residential sewage lift stations

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Nothing specific for sewer pumps but there are no exceptions for one either.

If you install a 15 or 20 amp 125 volt receptacle outdoors for this pump it must be GFCI protected.
 
GFCI on outdoor sewage lift pump

GFCI on outdoor sewage lift pump

If a GFCI is required, what do you use to warn you in the house, that the GFCI has tripped and you need to reset it?
 
silverknight said:
If a GFCI is required, what do you use to warn you in the house, that the GFCI has tripped and you need to reset it?
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same thing you use to tell you if the pump fails (mechanically)

In TN. the codes require a float switch/alarm.
 
augie47 said:
same thing you use to tell you if the pump fails (mechanically)

In TN. the codes require a float switch/alarm.
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Are these areas considered Class 1, Div 1 areas because there could be levels of methane gas dealing with solid raw sewage, or is the pump chamber after the septic tank where there is no raw solid sewage?
 
You can hard wire the pumps and float switches, mount the controls and alarm in the basement or garage of the home .
 
I rented a house a few years back that was below road level (side of hill) and had two lift pumps, one for sewer, one for drainwater. There was an effing enormous industrial bell that rang if there was sewerage pump trouble.

Having seen what happened when the system went wrong I would say the warning device is a prized asset. As a tenent, I got to call the landlord who put on the big rubbber gauntlets (lineman style) and fixed the problem.

I now know I would never buy a house with that kind of thing, as then I'd have to put on the gantlets when it went wrong.... ugh. Who would be a plumber eh.
 
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