MWI Pumps doesn’t send smaller pumps that may be used for residences or basements to natural disaster sites. MWI focuses on larger 12 to 16-inch Hydraflo™ pumps that are used to dewater construction sites, or to temporarily help with lift stations that may have permanent installations that were left inoperable because of the storm.
“We will handle things like parking garages that are big structures, but not individual homes,” Eller said. “There are also a lot of permanent pumps that we have installed in parking garages. Pumping large amounts of water out of large areas is our specialty. If you need to pump water out of the entire city of West Palm Beach or provide enough pumping for the whole city of Miami temporarily, we can do that.”
MWI Pumps depends on a large rental fleet to provide disaster recovery.
“We build a lot of pumps that go into these permanent stormwater stations so not only do we rent pumps that are temporary, but we also build a lot of the pumps that are in permanent pump stations all over the country,” Eller explained.