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New ECUA Plant, Pipeline Construction Ahead Of Schedule
December 29, 2009
The construction of the new Emerald Coast Utilities Authority Central Water Reclamation Facility in Cantonment is ahead of schedule.
The new facility replaces the 73-year old downtown Pensacola Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant and is the largest public works project in Escambia County’s history.
Construction on the facility is about 80 percent complete, according to Nathalie Bowers, ECUA spokesperson.
When the CWRF is finished in 2010, ECUA estimates it will have had a $320 million total economic impact, according Jim Roberts, ECUA spokesperson. There are 103 suppliers and contractors — 60 of them local — working on the project. The plant is being funding in part by $134 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $19.5 million from the Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency.
Many of the massive facility’s components are complete, Bowers said, while others are substantially complete.
The project also includes about 25 miles of transmission pipeline to move wastewater to the facility. The northern transmission pipeline is being constructed by Morgan Construction. Two crews are currently working: one from Chemstrand Road to the south and the other on Chemstrand Road north of Kingsfield Road. Bowers said about 80 percent of the pipe is in the ground, and the project is about 45 percent completed overall.
The central section of the transmission pipeline has about 97 percent of the pipe in the ground. The southern section of the pipeline project is completely in the ground, and it is 94 percent complete overall.
The CWRF is located on a 2,300 parcel owned by ECUA off Chemstrand Road near Ascend Products (formerly Solutia).
For more recent photos of the facility, click here.
Pictured above: A December aerial view of ECUA’s Central Water Reclamation Facility in Cantonment. Pictured below: A 20-inch force main is installed. Courtesy photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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8 Responses to “New ECUA Plant, Pipeline Construction Ahead Of Schedule”
I will be happy to have a new sewage plant. I seldom go downtown, but hate to smell the stink when I do. Thanks for this story on the progress they are making.
But I don’t think ECUA and the contractors have done enough to move quickly through the neighborhoods, across streets, etc. Chemstrand Road has been closed way too long. Chisholm Road at Nine Mile has been closed for a month, and the driveway of the church across the street. Kingsfield was closed at Hwy 29 all fall.
Now ECUA needs to turn its attention to water quality.
Only if people would spend less time watching American Idol ( american idiot) and pay attention to whats going on in the real world, who Knows, maybe they would know whats going on in the real world. A new water tank across the road from EWMS, the little blue flags for water, the little orange flags for phone, and little yellow flags for gas. NO SEWAGE SYSTEM up this way for years!!!!!
FYI citizen — the blue pipes on 99 are water pipes for Walnut Hill Water Works:
http://www.northescambia.com/?p=12818
There are details on the new lines about halfway down in this story.
I noticed the blue pipes on the ground along Hwy.99. Does this mean that their are future plans to eventually require the northend residents to be on ECUA waste and water services?
“…80% of all the workers are from out of state…”
Out of state contractors often employ their own skilled crews,
Also, if 80% are from out of state, where are they sleeping – motels. And paying all kinds of taxes.
It balances,
To Bad 80% of all the workers are from out of state when there are a lot of local Construction workers out of work , What’s up with that ??? ,
If you think Cantonment stinks now (paper mill) you just wait!
IT’S ABOUT TIME THE LOCAL GOVERMENT STARTS A PROJECT THAT WILL BENIFIT SO MANY. THEY HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF WASTING MONEY ON PROJECTS THAT BENIFIT ONLY A SELECT FEW OR NONE AT ALL.