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Decks and Ducks in Dublin
01 Sep 2006
When Lee Sanitation was placing a pump out system in Dublin recently an unexpected hazard was 150,000 yellow plastic ducks left over from a charity duck race impeding works at the installation site.
The Warwickshire UK based marine sanitation specialist has developed a range of pumping systems to suit all types and sizes of marinas. The unit for the Dublin Docklands Development Agency was installed in the heart of the city on the River Liffey at the downstream end of the Dublin Docklands Marina pontoon.
The mini-bollard pump station, which LeeSan has developed in association with Rolec Services, is fitted with a pump nozzle which LeeSan has painstakingly designed to meet all ISO standards and to fit all ISO standard pump and deck fittings. Visiting boat owners operate the system via a coin mechanism, once activated it is fully automatic.
The powerful pump discharges 125m along pipework mounted below the pontoons and then under the main gangway. The system lifts some 7m in reaching its destination of the mains drainage system ashore.
Total installation was achieved in a mere two days, driven, according to LeeSan operations director Gary Sutcliffe, by the fact that the proliferation of plastic ducks was driving his team quackers.
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