Centrifugal Wastewater & Sewage Pumps

Above-ground Gorman-Rupp pump solutions for municipal sewage, industrial wastewater and difficult solids-handling applications.

Super T Series industrial pump designed for sewage and wastewater applications, featuring robust construction and high efficiency for handling stringy materials, highlighted in blue color.

Super T Series

Self-priming centrifugal sewage and industrial wastewater pumps. Eradicator® technology handles rags, wipes and stringy solids, with safe above-ground maintenance.

High-pressure self-priming wastewater pump from the Ultra V Series, designed for effective solids handling and safe maintenance access.

Ultra V Series

High-pressure self-priming wastewater pumps for demanding duties. Strong solids handling, Eradicator® technology and safe maintenance access.

Gorman-Rupp 6400 Series centrifugal pump for wastewater management, featuring a blue exterior and designed for reliable dewatering solutions.

6400 Series

Centrifugal sewage and industrial wastewater pumps with Super T Series parts interchangeability and impeller options matched to the pumped media.

Industrial wastewater pumps and piping system at Glenelg Wastewater Treatment Plant, showcasing Gorman-Rupp Super T Series pumps for efficient sewage and solids handling.

Proven in Australian Wastewater Infrastructure

A Victorian wastewater treatment plant replaced recurring pump-choke maintenance with an above-ground Gorman-Rupp solution—eliminating an ongoing $2,700 monthly cleaning cost after approximately $27,000 in contractor expenses.

Gorman-Rupp logo featuring blue and black text, representing high-quality pumps for wastewater and dewatering solutions, associated with Hydro Innovations.

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Gorman-Rupp is an American manufacturer that stands behind its products, with some of the best warranties in the industry. Their manufacturing processes, state-of-the-art facilities and rigorous testing standards result in a product you can rely upon in the toughest applications.

With a variety of sizes and operating ranges, Gorman-Rupp’s extensive range of wastewater pumps are hard-working, dependable and full of features that make them safer and easier to maintain than any other pump.

Gorman-Rupp wastewater pump showcasing robust design and advanced features for reliable operation in water management applications.

Trouble Free Operation

Gorman-Rupp Super T and Ultra V Series pumps are designed for trouble free operation. They have a simple, but extremely reliable priming system, and have maintenance features that impact “up-time”. Operators can adjust internal clearances in minutes without having to open pumps or remove them from service, and when maintenance is required, simple hand tools will do the job.

The shaft and bearings are well protected by a double lip seal and atmospheric vent. Mechanical seals are double-floating, self-aligning cartridge types with hard silicon carbide faces.

Wastewater pumps from Gorman-Rupp, featuring robust piping and maintenance-friendly design, optimized for reliable solids handling and efficient operation in industrial applications.

Superior Solids Handling

Gorman-Rupp wastewater pumps have handled tough industrial and municipal applications since 1963. Super T and Ultra V pumps can handle spherical solids up to 76 mm, with lightweight inspection covers that provide safer access to pump internals.

When stringy and clog-prone solids like wet-wipes, bailing twine, feathers and rope find their way into wastewater streams, Gorman-Rupp has developed “Eradicator®” and “Eradicator Plus™” technologies to cope with these tough solids.

Gorman-Rupp wastewater pumps with blue piping and safety cones, showcasing advanced solids handling technology for industrial and municipal applications.

Surface Mounted Safety

Gorman-Rupp wastewater pumps can self-prime from up to 7.6 metres above the water level. This allows asset owners to mount pumps safely at surface level, without needing operators to open safety grilles or enter the wet well.

This means operators are not exposed to working at heights, working over water or working with cranes or heavy swinging weights.

Wastewater pumps with blue casings and green motors installed in a facility, showcasing Gorman-Rupp technology for efficient wastewater management and solids handling.

What Are Wastewater Pumps?

Wastewater pumps are pumps used for transporting wastewater from one place to another. Generally, they pump wastewater from a collection pit to a treatment plant, where solids might be separated, pH balanced, fats and oils separated etc.

The wastewater pump is expected to be capable of transporting this pumped media. This could be raw sewage from a sewage collection pit, or industrial wastewater from an abattoir, food process plant, or from any manufacturing plant that cleans floors, machinery, walls etc, and expects foreign material to find its way into the pit. Pumps are expected to pump rags, rope, socks, wet wipes, gloves, and anything else that finds its way into these pits.

Many types of pumps are used here, including helical rotor pumps and submersible centrifugal pumps, but self-priming centrifugal trash pumps are the safest and easiest to maintain.

Inside a wastewater pump station showing submersible pump setup with lifting chains and guide rails, surrounded by raw sewage and debris.
Example of a submersible pump.
Three individuals examining wastewater pump station equipment, featuring black and red valves and pipes, in a maintenance setting.
A 30yo pump station with easy to access pumps and valves.

Commercial Wastewater Pump Solutions

Pumping raw sewage is not an easy job for a wastewater pump, and working in the wastewater pumping environment is not easy or safe for the operators involved. Selecting the best wastewater pump needs careful consideration.

Different styles of wastewater pumps are applied to the pumping of raw sewage and industrial wastewater, with the most common being the submersible pump. There are numerous brands and several good quality manufacturers of submersible pumps, but all have basically the same set-up. They are suspended [lowered and raised] by rated lifting chains and are set on guide rails to enable them to engage with a permanently installed discharge bend inside the wet well. They therefore spend all of their time immersed in raw sewage or industrial wastewater.

The submersible style of sewage pumps has been the industry standard for several decades. But as the cost of implementing safety systems and controls increases, considerations for more sustainable long-term solutions are being sought. Solutions that offer not only more reliable pumping capabilities with longer-lasting parts, but are additionally much safer to troubleshoot and maintain.

Gorman-Rupp self-priming wastewater pumps are mounted at ground level, so do not have guide rails or discharge bends [that need repair or replacement periodically] in the wet well. They also do not need rated lifting chains to remove them from service when a repair is needed. In fact, they don’t need to be removed from service at all, as all repairs can be done safely at the surface, by one operator, while the pump remains connected to the pipe system.

Not only the pumps are easy to access in an above-ground Gorman-Rupp wastewater pump station. The valves are usually accessed at chest or waist height compared to being underground in a valve vault.

Self-priming pumps make an excellent long-term, safer solution for not only pumping of wastewater, but also make excellent, efficient and safe effluent and water transfer pumps.

Gorman-Rupp self-priming wastewater pump with motor and piping, mounted at ground level for easy access and maintenance, showcasing efficient wastewater management solutions.

Wastewater Pump Features

Reliable Pumps, Smart Solutions

Gorman-Rupp Eradicator vs Rope

Watch how a Super-T Series pump handles tough applications. This video showcases the capabilities of the Gorman-Rupp “Eradicator Solids Management System”. Watch it handle a long nylon rope with ease.

Gorman-Rupp Pump : Eric vs Chicken

Eric takes on a unique challenge with a Gorman-Rupp pump. Watch Eric try to block a Gorman-Rupp Super T Series pump, equipped with “Eradicator” technology.
He throws in plastic trash, along with a rubber chicken to try to do it. See who wins.

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Rydalmere NSW 2116

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