TPI September 2024

The treated water will then be injected into an aquifer at American Flat. Initially, it will serve agricultural irrigation, but the facility will later deliver water to residential and commercial sectors. Bidding documents will be released in late 2024 or early 2025. Construction will begin in 2025. City officials in Othello, Washington, will soon supervise a $14mn project to deliver a new wastewater treatment plant. Currently, the city is 100 per cent reliant on groundwater from a nearby aquifer, but the city is using water faster than the aquifer can naturally recharge. The treatment plant project will improve the city’s current water infrastructure and facilities and assess alternative methods of providing long term climate-resilient water resources. The aquifer storage and recovery project will be designed to pump water from a canal, treat the wastewater, and then pump the treated water into the aquifer or the city’s reservoirs as needed. The continuous and automated treatment process will introduce organic soil bacteria into the wastewater as a method of bioaugmentation or enhancing the ability of native microbes to break down pollutants. The project is in the pre-design phase, with an estimated completion date of late 2024. The city still has to acquire land for the facility, but construction is slated to begin in 2026, and plant operations will begin in late 2027. Wastewater treatment plants City leaders in Lawton, Oklahoma, are advancing the second phase of a wastewater treatment plant renovation project. Phase 2 will expand the facility’s capabilities and is estimated to cost between $85mn and $100mn.

Design work for Phase 2 began in May this year and is expected to close in August 2025, about the same time that Phase 1 construction work will be completed. The wastewater treatment plant was first built in 1977 and currently operates at a capacity of 18 million gallons per day. The city has been developing the project to renovate the treatment plant for about three years. Still, the unexpected failure of certain pieces of equipment at the plant has increased the urgency of the renovation project. The impact on water quality pushed the launch date, and the effort will be funded by various sources, including a grant from the American Rescue Plan Act and loans from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. Water treatment plants and wastewater system projects are usually high-cost initiatives. They involve much more than just construction contractors are expected to use as many local subcontractors as possible. Interested parties likely know that quite a bit of upfront prep work must be done before bidding. The author: As President and CEO of Strategic Partnerships Inc Mary Scott Nabers, a former statewide office holder in Texas, has decades of experience in the public and private sectors. Her expertise is her success in connecting the two sectors. Ms Nabers is also a well-recognised expert in the P3 world and a business development professional. Strategic Partnerships Inc publishes Government Market News, a platform for connecting public and private sector leaders in the government marketplace.

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