Vacuum plumbing systems for prisons, jails, and correctional facilities offer benefits in safety and security, water usage, costs, and maintenance, including:
"AcornVac is a powerful money saver. For starters, we cut the Authority’s waste cost by $200,00 a year. We saved $400,000 upfront in domestic water connect fees because AcornVac’s smaller piping network simplifies everything, and we drastically reduced how the inmates control the jail by eliminating clogged pipes."
John Chaney AECOM HSMM Project Manager, Western Virginia Regional Jail Salem, Virginia
Learn how AcornVac systems have helped East County Detention Facility in Riverside, CA. Watch to see our customers share their OWN experiences, in their OWN words.
[Vacuum Plumbing] opened the possibilities for design because vacuum is vertically lifted as opposed to gravity sewage, so it really changed how that system could be installed -- you can put a toilet in virtually any location because it’s going into the ceiling.
Working in detention facilities and mental health treatment facilities, it’s very common to have flooding…the residents there will intentionally plug up commodes and as a result an unfortunate occurrence will be massive flooding throughout. With a vacuum plumbing system, we did not experience any of that.
Western Virginia Regional JailSalem, Virginia
Poweshiek County JailMontezuma, Iowa
Treatment Center at the Salinas Valley State Prison Soledad, California
Lotus Glenn Correctional Centre Queensland, Australia