Headworks and Primary Treatment

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Status: Under Construction

Schedule: Substantial Completion expected Autumn 2023

Construction Cost: $102M

Project Goal: The project will remove solid material from the wastewater and will reduce diesel emissions and odor.

Project/Construction information:

The Headworks and Primary Treatment Facility includes the construction of the new headworks and the primary treatment facilities, including a new switchgear building and standby generator, ancillary facilities and lighting at the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant (Plant). Package 2 construction also includes the construction of the first phase of a flood wall that will ultimately surround and protect the Plant from future flood events along with habitat mitigation to the north of the Plant.

All ten structures have been constructed, and major equipment has been installed. New electrical service is in progress and initial testing and commissioning of the new headworks and primary treatment facilities is under way.