Construction on the $47 million Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant began recently. It is set to have an initial treatment capacity of 12 MGD and cost $47 MM. It will treat raw water from the recently installed Tarrant Regional Water District 90-inch raw water main that connects Eagle Mountain Lake with the East Texas water supply in Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers reservoirs. It will then distribute the treated drinking water to the Fort Worth’s West Side.
The project’s 70,000 square feet of facilities, include an operations building, wash water recovery basins, a recycle pump station, a 2.5 million gallon ground storage tank, a high-service pump station, an ozone chemical building, an electrical building and related site and civil work. This is just the latest facility to use ozone as there are already several drinking water plants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that employ this process.
The project is expected to be completed in 2012. The contractor for the project is McCarthy Building Cos. Inc and the engineer is CDM.