Barrie Surface Water Treatment Plant
CLIENT
City of Barrie
LOCATION
Ontario
DELIVERY MODEL
Design-Bid-Build
PRIME CONSULTANT
WSP Group
SECTOR
Civil Infrastructure | Environmental, Water & Wastewater
PROJECT VALUE
$116 million
COMPLETION DATE
May 2011
Project Overview
The Surface Water Treatment Plant (SWTP) is a new 60 ML/d facility which treats surface water drawn from Kempenfelt Bay. The SWTP allows the City of Barrie to provide safe drinking water to area residents and businesses and decrease its reliance on groundwater resources it has utilized for many years. This infrastructure project can accommodate expansion to 240 ML/d.
The project required the construction of eight structures that included an administration building, parking garage, treatment plant, and a low lift pumping station 1.5 km from the main plant. The buildings carry sustainable features such as solar reflective roofing and green living roofs.
The primary treatment process is membrane filtration using GE Zenon ultra-filtration membranes. The facility includes raw water strainers/dynamic mixers, mechanical flocculators/ flocculation tanks, secondary membranes, a high lift pumping station, backwash pumping, controls, SCADA and VESDA systems, and instrumentation.
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