Commercial Lift Station Repair and Maintenance
We service the complete station, the pump, the control panel, the float switches, the valving, and the wet well, across South Florida and the Treasure Coast, which is what separates a repair from a pump-out. If your alarm is going off right now, call.
Your Lift Station Alarm Is Going Off. Here Is What to Do.
Emergency Response, 24/7
An alarm means the station is not keeping up. Depending on the cause, you have anywhere from hours to minutes before wastewater surfaces, and an overflow becomes an environmental and regulatory problem on top of an operational one.
Step 1: Call us
We are available 24/7. Alarm calls get priority dispatch.
Step 2: Reduce inflow if you can
Slow or stop discharge into the system where operationally possible. In a restaurant that may mean holding dish and prep water. In a multi-unit building it usually is not possible, and that is fine.
Step 3: Do not reset the alarm and walk away
A silenced alarm on a station that is still failing is the most common reason a manageable problem becomes an overflow.
Step 4: Do not enter the wet well
Wet wells are confined spaces with hydrogen sulfide and oxygen-deficiency hazards. This is not a look-and-see situation.
Step 5: Have your permit information ready if you have it
In permitted counties, the response gets documented. Having the permit and station numbers on hand speeds that up.
When we arrive we diagnose the actual cause rather than pumping the well and leaving. That usually means checking pump amperage and operation, float and level sensor function, the control panel and alarm circuit, check and isolation valves, and wet well condition, in that order.
Does Your Property Have a Lift Station You Are Responsible For?
Private Stations Are the Owner's Obligation, Not the Utility's
This catches more commercial property owners than anything else on this page. If a lift station sits on your property and serves your building, it is a private station, and maintenance, repair, permitting, and compliance reporting are your responsibility rather than the local utility's. The utility's responsibility starts at the point where your force main ties into their system.
A large number of owners and managers do not know their property has one until it fails. Common signs you are responsible for a station: a locked hatch or concrete pad in a back parking area, a small control panel on a post near it, an audible or strobe alarm you have never heard go off, a building sitting below the grade of the nearest sewer main, or an annual permit invoice from the county that nobody on staff can explain.
If you are not sure, we will tell you during a free on-site evaluation, including whether it is permitted and whether the required documentation is in place.
What We Service Inside the Station
Pumps, Panels, Piping, and Everything Between
A lift station is a mechanical system, an electrical system, and a piping system in one enclosure, and a fault in any of the three shows up the same way at the alarm. We hold plumbing, mechanical, and controls capability in one team, so the whole station is a single scope with a single point of accountability.
- Pumps and motors. Repair, rebuild, and replacement for submersible and dry-pit pumps, including amperage testing and impeller service.
- Float switches and level sensing. Replacement and calibration of floats, transducers, and level controls, which are the most frequent cause of nuisance alarms and short-cycling.
- Electrical control panels. Diagnostics and repair of contactors, relays, breakers, alternators, and phase monitors, plus panel replacement where corrosion has taken it.
- Alarm and telemetry diagnostics. Audible, visual, and remote alarm circuits, including remote units that report to a monitoring service or to us directly.
- Valving and piping. Check valves, isolation valves, discharge piping, and force main connections, including the check valve service that prevents backflow from the force main into the wet well.
- Wet well cleaning and pump-outs. Removal of accumulated grease, rags, and sediment, with visual inspection of the well and station components while it is clean.
- Installation and rehabilitation. New station installation, pump and panel upgrades, and full rehabilitation of stations that have been run past their service life.
For pump work outside a station, including booster and transfer pumps, see
pump installation and repair. For failures across other mechanical equipment, see
emergency mechanical repairs.
Scheduled Maintenance That Prevents the Alarm Call
Preventative Programs With Documentation Included
Commercial lift stations generally need professional service every three to six months, depending on how much volume moves through them and what kind of facility they serve. Restaurants, hotels, and any station handling grease-heavy discharge fall at the short end of that range. Lower-volume office and retail stations fall at the longer end.
A scheduled program covers wet well cleaning, pump amperage and operation testing, float and level control inspection, control panel and alarm testing, check and isolation valve inspection, and a written condition report with elapsed-time or run-hour readings recorded. The City of Stuart's own guidance on sanitary sewer lift station maintenance reflects the same intervals we work to, with alarm systems checked weekly, floats inspected frequently because grease buildup stops them from operating, and a logbook of motor hours and maintenance kept on site.
That last part is the part that matters at renewal time. A station with a maintenance record and current documentation renews without friction. A station without one becomes a problem the year you need it not to be. Recurring service across one property or several sits under a single
maintenance agreement.
County Compliance and the Paperwork That Goes With It
Documentation for Every County We Serve
Requirements vary by county, and the gap between them is wide. We serve Martin, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties, and we produce the documentation each one asks for.
Miami-Dade is the strictest. Private pump stations there require a Private Sanitary Sewer Operating Permit from the county's Division of Environmental Resources Management, renewed annually, with pump elapsed-time readings filed by the 14th day of the following month, a signed owner service agreement on file, an operations and maintenance manual kept at the control panel, contractor response to remote alarm notifications, and pump-outs performed by a permitted liquid waste hauler.
We handle the service and the filings together. Coverage details for every county are on our
service areas page.
Related services
Lift Station Questions Answered
What Property, Facility, and Municipal Managers Ask
Who repairs commercial lift stations in South Florida?
We do, across Martin, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties. Because we hold plumbing, mechanical, and controls capability in one team, we service the pump, the panel, the valving, and the piping as one scope.
How often should a commercial lift station be serviced?
Every three to six months for most commercial stations, depending on volume and facility type. High-volume and grease-heavy stations at restaurants and hotels need the shorter interval. Alarm circuits should be checked more frequently than that, and floats fail early when grease is present.
My lift station alarm is going off. What do I do?
Call us, reduce discharge into the system if your operation allows it, and do not silence the alarm and leave it. Do not open or enter the wet well, which is a confined space with real hazards. We dispatch alarm calls on priority, 24/7.
Is the property owner responsible for maintaining the lift station?
For a private station on private property, yes. Maintenance, repair, permitting, and compliance reporting fall to the property owner, not the utility. The utility's responsibility generally begins where your force main connects to their system.
Do you offer 24 hour emergency lift station repair in South Florida?
Yes. Emergency lift station response runs 24/7 across our service area. Travel time varies by market and is longest in the Florida Keys, where we will give you an honest arrival window rather than a standard one.
What does a lift station preventative maintenance program include?
Wet well cleaning, pump amperage and operation testing, float and level control inspection, control panel and alarm testing, valve inspection, and a written condition report with run-hour readings recorded. In permitted counties it also includes the required filings, so compliance is closed out rather than tracked separately.
Get Your Station Evaluated Before It Alarms
Free On-Site Evaluation and Written Condition Report
If you have a station and no maintenance record, or you are not sure whether you have one at all, we will look at it and tell you where it stands. Evaluations are on-site and free, and findings come back in writing.