Muskego High School

BELFOR repaired damage and extracted sewage water from Muskego High School in Wisconsin after a pipe burst.

When the pipe breaks, the sewage will flow. That’s exactly what Muskego High School, located in rural southeastern Wisconsin, experienced without warning. The pipe under the school’s maintenance garage slab burst and sewage water quickly began to migrate into the auto shop classroom.

The school’s maintenance staff called BELFOR Milwaukee for emergency services. Within one hour, BELFOR had a team on-site extracting water and setting up sand bag walls to limit dirty water from flowing into the faculty parking lot.

Muskego High School is equipped with a lift pumping station that pumps all sewage to the city’s sewer connection approximately 1,200 feet to the corner of school property. Once the pumps are shut off, the lift station continues to collect sewage from the school. To prevent the sewage from back flowing through the drains, BELFOR shut off the lift station and scheduled two environmental trucks to continuously extract water from the pumping station while crews excavated the parking lot in search of the main sewer lateral.