Water Reclamation Facility
Treatment capacity doubled to 30 MGD while the existing plant never stepped out of permit.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Water & Environmental
- Delivery
- EPC
- Scale
- 30 MGD
- Completed
- 2023
A treatment plant expansion that doubled capacity while the existing plant stayed in permit.
The plant had to keep treating every gallon to its discharge permit while new basins, pipe galleries and process equipment were built around it. Tie-ins to live process lines could only happen during low-flow hours. Long, cold winters added cold-weather concrete to a schedule already set by the regulator.
The approach.
- 01
Bypass plans for every tie-in
Each connection to a live line had a bypass pumping plan, a rollback plan and operators on site through the work.
- 02
Self-performed concrete
Our crews placed basin walls and slabs, with heated enclosures through winter and leak tests on every basin.
- 03
Engineering and build in one team
Under EPC, process engineers and field crews resolved equipment and piping changes without a handoff between firms.
- 04
Biology brought online gradually
New trains were seeded and loaded in steps, with the operations staff trained on each one before it took full flow.
The outcome.
“The river downstream does not care about our schedule. The permit came first, and the construction worked around it.”
Project manager, MarkWester
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