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ECUA’s Cantonment Wastewater Facility In Operation For A Year
September 6, 2011
The $320 million Emerald Coast Utilities Authority’s Central Water Reclamation Facility in Cantonment has now been in operation for a year.
Six years after Hurricane Ivan’s devastating impact on Northwest Florida and the ECUA’s Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant in downtown Pensacola, the new CWRF in Cantonment began accepting minimal wastewater flows on August 30, 2010.
A dedication and symbolic turning of a valve took place on December 2, 2010, marking the completion of the largest public works project in the history of Escambia County. The Main Street plant ceased operations on April 28, 2011, marking the day when all of ECUA’s wastewater was processed in Cantonment.
The Cantonment plant sits on 2,000 acres of land adjacent to Ascend Performance Materials (formerly Solutia) on Old Chemstrand Road. 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.
The plant uses a highly developed biological treatment and disinfection process to clean water and provide up to 17 million gallons a day of reclaimed water to Gulf Power’s Crist Plant and up to six million gallons a day of reclaimed water to International Paper.
The CWRF has been honored as a top three finalist for the 2011 Global Water Reuse Project of the Year by Global Water Intelligence.
Pictured: The Central Water Reclamation Facility in Cantonment. Submitted file photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “ECUA’s Cantonment Wastewater Facility In Operation For A Year”
I had worked for the ECUA back in the middle to late 80s and with all the maintenance problems that they had at the Main Street plant, this is God sent and I remember working with great people like Mr. Ralph Weaver, Dennis Dugger, Ray yarboro, Ernest Russell, Doug Leonard and many others, they did a great job down there. I had learned a lot about life in general as well as how the wastewater procces works so I don’t have any critical remarks as they have worked very hard to ensure that there are no discharges that would cause sickness and disease. These people should be honored. If I could go back to 1986 and start over again I would as well as learn all that I could to be of help here. So we know there may have been some inconviences with bad pavement and other things but it is for everyones benefit as well as health saftey to you all and the quality of the bays down there,they are doing more than looking out for you, they are looking out for the enviroment.
I just hope the wind does not start blowing out of the south east.
yea thanks a lot ,new chemstrand road was a good road when we bought our house in 97.then they put in the main line down new chemstrand ,now it’s bumpy ,the side are washed out, loose rocks everywhere,kids can’t walk on the side of the road because of the washouts.They dumped crush lime stone in the trench and put what looked like an inch of dirt on top,first rain ,no dirt and rock fly’n into my windshield,thanks a lot . the road is falling apart less then a year later.maybe two inches of new asphalt on top. THEY CAN PAY THE MONEY AND RUN AD’S (,like on north ecsambia for months) saying how they finish on time and budget,ANYONE CAN FINISH ON TIME AND BUDGET WITH CRAPY WORK! I is my hope that they win nothing,and have to FIX the roads that they screwed up.
How can you be operation of the year with the amount of sewage spills they have dumped in the bayou’s around UWF and Escambia river ? JUST SAYN