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Work Underway For New $300 Million ECUA Wastewater Facility
June 5, 2008
Work is underway to clear land for the Escambia County’s new sewage treatment plant off Chemstrand Road near Solutia.
The plant, more officially known as the Central Water Reclamation Facility, is scheduled to be complete in just two years at a cost of about $300 million. $134 million will come from the Federal Emergency Management agency, $19.5 million from the Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency and the rest from ECUA customers’ monthly bills.
The project will replace the aging Main Street Street sewage treatment plant in downtown Pensacola. That plant flooded during Hurricane Ivan, sending raw sewage throughout downtown.
The project will include the construction of about 25 miles of pipeline and the pumping of wastewater to the new facility near Cantonment. The treated water will be used by Gulf Power Company’s generating plant a few miles away and by International Paper in Cantonment.
The plant will be located at the highest point on the 2,300 acre parcel owned by ECUA.
“With the plant located at the highest point, ECUA can use gravity flow of effluent from the plant, at a savings of about $500,000 a year in energy costs,” Larry Walker, ECUA District 5 board member said.
Pictured above: ECUA District 5 board member Larry Walker (left) talks with Scott Jernigan, an employee of Baskerville-Donovan, Inc., the primary engineering firm in the plant construction, and Bob Adams, the subcontractor who is doing the land-clearing work at the site of the new Central Water Reclamation Facility. Pictured below: The plant will be located up this hill near the small stand of trees. Submitted photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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