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  2. First Lift Station - Wikipedia

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    The First Lift Station is a pump station in Mission, Texas, that once provided water for irrigating the crops of the early Rio Grande Valley.In 1907 John J. Conway and James W. Hoit began the Mission Canal Co. Irrigation system, which was instrumental in the early agricultural growth of the area.

  3. Pumping station - Wikipedia

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    A pumping station is an integral part of a pumped-storage hydroelectricity installation. Pumping stations are designed to move water or sewage from one location to another, overcoming gravitational challenges, and are essential for maintaining navigable canal levels, supplying water, and managing sewage and floodwaters. In canal systems ...

  4. Lift station - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 April 2017, at 22:39 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  5. Edmonston Pumping Plant - Wikipedia

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    Edmonston Pumping Plant is a pumping station near the south end of the California Aqueduct, which is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. It lifts water 1,926 feet (600 m) to cross the Tehachapi Mountains where it splits into the west and east branches of the California Aqueduct serving Southern California.

  6. Gondola lift - Wikipedia

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    A gondola lift is a means of cable transport and type of aerial lift which is supported and propelled by cables from above. It consists of a loop of steel wire rope that is strung between two stations, sometimes over intermediate supporting towers.

  7. Sewage pumping - Wikipedia

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    KOS+ M openwell submersible pump. Small-scale sewage pumping is normally done by a submersible pump.. This became popular in the early 1960s, when a guide rail system was developed to lift the submersible pump out of the pump station for repair, and ended the dirty and sometimes dangerous task of sending people into the sewage or wet pit. [1]

  8. List of funicular railways - Wikipedia

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    Folkestone, Leas Lift (1885–2017; second pair 1890–1966) – water balanced; Hastings: East Hill Lift (opened 1903) West Hill Lift (opened 1891) Lizard, The Lizard Lifeboat Station ; Lynton and Lynmouth, Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway (opened 1890) – water balanced; London, London Millennium Funicular (2003-2021) – inclined elevator [86]

  9. List of gondola lifts - Wikipedia

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    The Pooladkaf gondola lift in Pooladkaf ski resort, near Sepidan, on the north mountains of Shiraz at Fars region. Elevation of this lift is from 2810 to 3231 meters from sea level. The Tochal gondola lift (Tele-cabin) from metropolitan Tehran to the Tochal Ski Resort; Namakab Rud gondola lift in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran.