Floating Self Cleaning Suction Screen
We Service What We Sell
Founded in 1986 in Kyabram, W&P Pumps designs, fabricates, and installs heavy-duty floating self-cleaning suction screens and HDPE intake pontoons for rivers, irrigation channels, farm storage dams, and tailwater reuse pits across Victoria and Southern NSW.
Floating Self-Cleaning Suction Screens
Eliminate Blocked Foot Valves, Cavitation & Sprinkler Nozzle Blockages
Drawing irrigation or process water from open rivers, Goulburn-Murray Water channels, and farm dams exposes pumps and sprinklers to floating weed, algae, leaves, sticks, and aquatic debris. A blocked foot valve or suction strainer starves your pump, causing suction cavitation, seal failure, loss of prime, and blocked centre pivot or drip and sprinkler emitters.
At W&P Pumps, we supply and custom-fabricate floating self-cleaning rotating drum suction screens paired with UV-stabilised HDPE floating pontoons and flexible suction hoses. Driven by a small hydraulic return jet from your discharge line, the stainless-steel mesh drum rotates continuously, wiping weeds and trash clear of the intake screen while drawing clean water from just below the surface where sediment and floating debris are minimal.
Whether you are running a riverbank irrigation pump station, a trailer-mounted diesel dewatering pump, or a dairy green-water reuse system, our team sizes every screen to match your flow rate (L/sec), suction pipe diameter, and trash load.
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Suction Screen Key Benefits
Continuous Water-Driven Self-Cleaning
An internal spray bar powered by a small bleed line from the main pump discharge continuously rotates the stainless-steel mesh cylinder, pushing leaves, ribbon weed, and algae away from the suction intake automatically.
Draws Clean Sub-Surface Water
Suspended beneath a heavy-duty HDPE float pontoon, the suction screen rises and falls with changing river, channel, or dam levels, always drawing from the cleanest water zone below floating scum and well above bottom silt.
Protects Impellers, Seals & Sprinklers
Fine corrosion-resistant stainless steel mesh stops abrasive grit, twigs, and weed from entering your centrifugal or mixed flow pump, preventing impeller wear and keeping pivot and drip emitters clean.
Low Head Loss & Full Flow
Generous open screen area ensures minimal suction friction loss and healthy Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH), maintaining full pump efficiency even in high-debris summer pumping conditions.
Corrosion-Proof Stainless & HDPE Build
Manufactured from marine-grade 304/316 stainless steel, hot-dip galvanised steel, and custom-welded PE100 HDPE floats to withstand harsh Australian waterways and UV exposure for decades.
Turnkey Supply, Retrofits & Servicing
W&P Pumps supplies standalone screens or complete intake packages including hinged bank boom arms, suction hoses, foot valves, and AS4747 compliant metering across VIC & NSW.
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Suction Screen & Intake Configurations
Rotating Drum Suction Screens
Water-driven rotating stainless-steel mesh screens sized for flows from 10 L/sec to over 250 L/sec.
Floating HDPE Suction Pontoons
Custom PE100 polyethylene twin-float pontoons engineered in our Kyabram workshop to keep intakes level.
Channel & Dam Intake Screens
Shallow-draft floating intakes ideal for irrigation channels, farm storage dams, and tailwater sumps.
River Pump Station Intakes
Heavy-duty hinged boom arms, winch retrieval frames, and flexible suction couplings for fluctuating rivers.
Dairy Effluent & Reuse Screens
Screened floating intakes for dairy second-stage effluent ponds and green water flood wash systems.
Custom Flanged Spools & Foot Valves
Complete flanged HDPE/galvanised suction pipework, galvanised foot valves, and priming systems.
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Project Timelines
W&P Pumps knows that time is money, which is why we always schedule work and set milestones for projects with completion dates. You can be assured that when we begin a project, we will do everything possible to finish it on time.
Safety & Quality Is Key
At W&P Pumps, the level of protection and efficiency of our jobs is paramount; as a family company, we care for our staff and the community, and we take pride in ensuring a healthy work atmosphere that guarantees everyone returns home safely while upholding a high level of quality.
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Comprehensive Pump Solutions for Industry, Agriculture, Infrastructure, and Fire Safety
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1300 977 867