Cape Coral Facilities and Utilities Expansion Program
Best Civil Works/Infrastructure
With a fast-growing population, the city of Cape Coral, Fla., recognized the need to upgrade its water and wastewater infrastructure. MWH Constructors of Broomfield, Colo., managed the $873-million design-build/program manager-at-risk Cape Coral Facilities and Utilities Expansion Program, which included more than 70 projects. Work began in October 2001 and wrapped up in November 2010.
“We were fulfilling the city's utility master plan,” says Larry Laws, program manager with MWH. “We were touching every part of the water cycle.”
On two contracts, MWH added 720 miles of water, gravity sewer and irrigation pipelines; 240 miles of roadway; 34 wastewater pump stations; and water, sewer and irrigation collection, distribution and transmission systems. It also doubled the capacity of Cape Coral's two wastewater reclamation plants, designed a third plant, expanded the existing water treatment plant and built a 12-mgd reverse-osmosis water treatment plant.
The team constructed 27 raw-water production wells, three deep-injection wells to store the brine from the reverse-osmosis process and several aquifer storage and recovery test wells for a program that will store water from the canals below ground during the rainy season for use in drier times.
Key Players
Owner: City of Cape Coral, Fla.
Contractor/Construction Manager: MWH Constructors, Broomfield, Colo.
Designer: MWH Global, Tampa, Fla.
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MWH Constructors
Great! And it only cost me $17,000 out-of-pocket and a $150 per month water bill. In addition, they had to raise the property taxes too. Every community should do the same.
I have been in the Cape over six years. I have a well and septic tank. Most of my life I have had both in various parts of Florida, Indiana and Tennessee. If you maintain your equipm...
My water is cleaner that the "city" water I had in So Ft Myers and if you use one tablespoon of yeast in your septic monthly it should continue to function properly for years. I have never had to have a septic tank cleaned out.
Why should I ever have to pay $20,000 to hook up to an infearior system and have to pay $150 a month for that?????? I would move first.
I agree with Anonymous - it is the biggest ripoff of taxpayers I ever witnessed in my lifetime. These city officials no nothing of running a city, creating a strong tax base, and makin...
An little known fact: the aquifer will not support the ultimate water plant design capacity without a major retrofit. At around. The chloride concentration will increase and beyond wha...
Unfortunatly these bookworm morons know nothing about water treatment or waste water management. The trouble with selling your home is getting the price to brake even or getting a buyer...
The powers to be should have left the folks who have a well or a septic system alone and only assesed the new buildings Residential or Commercial. This is nothing more than Obamanization
or as Joe the Plumber Put it we be " Spreading the Wealth "
