PROJECTS - WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

Burkburnett, Texas

The City of Burkburnett's Wastewater Treatment Plant Project consisted of the construction of improvements for nitrate removal. The contract awarded to Carrothers included the following additions, modifications, or revisions:

• Modifications to raw water piping enabling all wells to pump into the existing 500,000-gallon storage tank.
• Construction of an iron exchange and high service pump building that includes ion exchange feed pumps, ion exchange softening and nitrate removal systems, high service pumps, administration and laboratory facilities with SCADA system, maintenance area, and electrical switchgear.
• Construction of brine generation and pumping facilities and backwash wastewater pumping and conveyance facilities ancillary to the exchange system.
• Baffling and lining of 240,000-gallon clear well and lining the 500,000-gallon clear well.
• Removal of septic tanks at two locations and installation of grinder pump stations and conveyance system.
• Miscellaneous instrumentation modifications to elevated storage tanks and on-site facilities.
• Electrical modifications to power the new systems and to relocate existing electrical lines.

Completion Date: November 1999
Engineer: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.

New Water Treatment Plant, Well Buildings, Booster Pump Stations, and Telemetry Buildings Rural Water District No. 4 Pottawatomie County, Kansas

Rural Water District No. 4 in Pottawatomie County enhanced the quality of their citizen’s drinking water by installing a Water Treatment Plant.

The Contract awarded to Carrothers Construction Company to build this facility consisted of construction of two new well buildings, new water treatment plant, three distribution system booster pump stations and telemetry buildings. The work included pre-cast concrete buildings, interior piping, pump installation, electrical systems, mechanical systems, and site work at two new well buildings; construction of metal building, masonry walls, gypsum drywall, installation of reverse osmosis equipment (RO) and associated equipment, high service pumps, chemical feed systems, instrumentation and control systems, site piping, site grading, above ground storage tank, aerator/degassifier with elevated stand, interior piping, mechanical systems, and electrical systems at the new water treatment plant; construction of pre-cast concrete building, booster pumps, interior piping, instrumentation and control, mechanical systems, and electrical systems at the three booster pump stations.