A team of contractors teaming up on a project to modernize the nearly century-old Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in Short Hills. The $78 million venture has been named one of New Jersey’s Leading Infrastructure Projects by the NJ Alliance for Action, a non-profit statewide coalition of more than 2,500 business, labor, professional, academic and government leaders advocating infrastructure investment throughout the state.
Overseen by New Jersey American Water, the project at Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant amounts to a near-total redo. The plant’s existing infrastructure dates back to the 1920s and will be completely replaced with a new state-of-the-art facility predicted to provide residents with up to 15 million gallons of water per day. The project is scheduled to be completed by early summer 2012.
The overhaul incorporates an environmentally sensitive design that includes premium-efficiency pump motors; high-efficiency lighting fixtures and use of natural lighting and water efficient plumbing fixtures. It also includes filtering systems, chemical treatment systems and ozone disinfectants for the plant. Ozone water treatment is being increasing used in the US for drinking water treatment with about 2 billion gallons per day treated with ozone.