One of the early technologies available over the last twenty years for automatically flushing storm tanks and EQ basins, the tipping bucket, has been superceded by flushing gates and more recently by the most efficient of all flushing systems the BIOGEST Vacuflusher.

Tipping buckets are water holding troughs arranged to face the front wall of the tank, the bucket has a stub shaft at each end supported by pillow block bearings that allows the buckets to pivot once they are filled with clean water.

As the water pours out of the trough it falls down the back wall and cascades down a curved section at the bottom of the wall which directs the water the length of the flushing lane resulting in the washing of the sediment on the bottom of the tank floor to the far end of the lane where it is deposited into a transverse collection channel.

Flush water volumes can be as low as 30 gallons per ft width of flushing lane to as high as 125 gallons per ft width of flushing lane, and the buckets are installed on special brackets anywhere from 6 ft upto 15 ft above the bottom of the tank.

Materials of construction are 304/316 stainless steel.