Next Phase of Chandler Airport Water Reclamation Facility Expansion to be Completed in 2014

The Southwest region of McCarthy Building Companies Inc. recently was awarded a contract for the preconstruction and construction services for the Phase III Airport Water Reclamation Facility Expansion project. This project represents a 7 million gal per day (mgd) expansion that will allow the Airport Water Reclamation Facility to treat up to 22 mgd on a month basis.

Throughout the construction process, all elements of the plant will remain operational. The project will include expansion of the existing facilities by adding an expanded headworks facility, new aeration basins, new clarifiers, expansion of the filtration and flocculation facilities, as well as a new finished water reservoir.

In late 2009, McCarthy completed construction of the Phase II Chandler Airport Water Reclamation Facility Expansion project for the city of Chandler. This project expanded the facility’s liquid processing from 10 mgd to 15 mgd and included new equipment and reservoirs for the water reclamation distribution system and new processes in treating the 15 mgd of equivalent solids. The project received “Project of the Year” awards from the American Public Works Association and the Arizona Water Association.

The anticipated construction schedule of phase III of the project is June 2012 to June 2014.