Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) is located in Las Vegas, NV and serves as the city jail. A high volume of large debris in the waste water at CCDC must be macerated before being discharged into the City sewer. A design/build project was commissioned at CCDC to replace an existing macerator/pump system which was failing. Jensen Engineered Systems (JES), a division of Jensen Precast, assisted the plumbing sub-contractor in the design of a grinder/pump station. The preliminary design called for a large, pour in place concrete structure. The challenge of building the structure was that it was located between two …
