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Grand Opening Held For $316 Million ECUA Wastewater Plant
December 2, 2010
Thursday was the official grand opening for the largest public works project in the history of Escambia County — the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority’s new Central Water Reclamation Facility in Cantonment, which has been in operation since late August.
The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority held community celebration to mark the completion of the new, $316-million CWRF. The public was invited to join ECUA board members and staff, as well as federal, state and local officials, as the state-of-the-art facility officially began operations.
The new plant sits on 2,000 acres on land adjacent to Ascend Performance Materials (formerly Solutia) on Old Chemstrand Road near Cantonment. A full 15 miles north of the existing Main Street Treatment Plant, the facility is well above the flood plain and is built to resist hurricane-force winds. Redundant power and storage systems help to ensure that the facility can remain operational during conditions that crippled the Main Street plant during Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
With the CWRF complete, ECUA plans to demolish the aging Main Street facility, which many believe will help encourage economic development in the area. Another benefit is that reclaimed water from that facility will no longer be discharged into Pensacola Bay. Thanks to innovative partnerships with Gulf Power Company and International Paper, reclaimed water from the CWRF will be reused by those two companies.
The CWRF was funded in large part through grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other federal sources, the State of Florida, Escambia County and the City of Pensacola. Several local firms, employing hundreds of Northwest Florida employees, participated in the design and construction of the facility and its 25 miles of pipeline.
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2 Responses to “Grand Opening Held For $316 Million ECUA Wastewater Plant”
Gulf Power evaporates their water in cooling, what they don’t evaporate they send back to ECUA, any excess goes onto spray fields, so if it reaches Escambia Bay it will be after passing through miles of aquifer and the way the current flows, Pensacola Bay shouldn’t get any of it
Another benefit is that reclaimed water from that facility will no longer be discharged into Pensacola Bay. Thanks to innovative partnerships with Gulf Power Company and International Paper, reclaimed water from the CWRF will be reused by those two companies.
Now tell me, where is Gulf Power and IP going to discharge their water. Right now IP is laying a discharge line to dump their water where?? Right back into Perdido/Pensacola Bay by chance!! I guess GP will just turn theirs back in to Escambia River. So where are we in the process. The poop still ends up where? At the foot of Pensacola bay?? It stills ends up going down stream period!!