Articles Tagged with ''water/environment''

The South Platte Renew Water Recovery Facility treats approximately 20 million gallons per day of residential and industrial wastewater from 300,000 residents in connecting communities.

Differing site conditions posed significant challenges for the contractor and the design team for this wetlands restoration project.

To eliminate sewer overflows into Lake Erie, increase treatment capacity and improve the quality of the treated water at this aging water pollution control center (WPCC), upgrades included a 15-million-gallon storage basin, new headworks, relief sewer and a new membrane bioreactor process within the existing tankage.

A growing population, aging infrastructure and more stringent effluent limits necessitated the large-scale expansion of the Tomahawk Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility.

The $11.5-million Lift Station 87 Wet Weather Flow Transfer facility in St. Petersburg, Fla., is bolstering the city’s sewer and wastewater capabilities.

Developing the Centennial Yards Utility LDP 1 + 2 in Atlanta meant facing challenges from excavation to the tie-in for a project that is transforming 50 acres in the city’s downtown.

When a rotten egg odor began plaguing the El Rio Vista Natural Resource Park, local officials realized that it was coming from a Pima County wastewater sewer structure, which had undergone numerous modifications over the last 50 years.

Consisting of 28 miles of 48-in.-dia and 42-in.-dia steel pipe between the communities of Tohatchi and Little Water, N.M., this project brings a much needed water source to the Navajo and Jicarilla Apache reservations.

This conventional activated sludge wastewater treatment plant with nitrogen removal will treat 63 million gallons a day of wastewater from 500,000 residents.

Silicon Valley Clean Water undertook this project as part of a $580-million Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade Program to rehabilitate and convert its 50-year-old raw wastewater conveyance system that was at the end of its useful life from a force main system to a gravity conveyance system.