Florida
Panama City
Project: Wastewater treatment plant improvements
Details: Current treatment plant is about 40 years old
Status: In first phase
Cost: $34 million
Georgia
Grovestown
Project: New wastewater treatment plant
Details: Will help city break from its dependence on Columbia and Richmond counties
Status: Groundbreaking ceremony held
Cost: Unknown
Illinois
DeKalb
Project: Wastewater treatment plant renovations
Details: Adding new water purification systems and new administration building
Status: Construction begun
Cost: $46 million
New Jersey
Pequannock
Project: Improvements to water utility
Details: The decision to build a water tank out of concrete upped the cost
Status: Planning phase
Cost: $5.5 million
New York
Port Leyden
Project: Wastewater treatment plant upgrade
Details: Includes replacement of sand filter media, tank improvements, pump station upgrades, siphon and valve replacement and a new chlorination system
Status: Groundbreaking ceremony held
Cost: $2.8 million
North Dakota
Williston
Project: New
Details: Addresses oil industry population boom
Status: Ribbon-cutting ceremony held
Cost: $105 million
Ohio
Bucyrus
Project: New water treatment facility
Details: Plant can produce 3 mgd of clean water
Status: Dedication ceremony held
Cost: $24 million
Piqua
Project: Wastewater treatment plant expansion
Details: Will get rid of the city’s sanitary sewer overflow
Status: Groundbreaking held
Cost: $42 million
Ontario
Owen Sound
Project: Wastewater treatment plant upgrade
Details: Exceeds regulatory limits for ammonia, phosphorus and suspended solids
Status: Officially reopened
Cost: $48 million
Oregon
Lake Oswego
Project: New water treatment plant
Details: Will process 38 mgd
Status: Ribbon-cutting ceremony held
Cost: $254 million
Nyssa
Project: New water treatment plant
Details: Plant required due to change in federal standards for arsenic levels
Status: Groundbreaking ceremony held
Cost: $8.7 million
Quebec
Kingsbury
Project: New wastewater treatment plant
Details: Funding provided by Canadian and Quebec governments
Status: Inauguration held
Cost: $2 million
Texas
Houston
Project: City building world’s largest water purification plant
Details: Construction of a new raw water facility, including advanced three-level intake, pumping and conveyance to withdraw water and deliver it through two new 108-inch pipelines
Status: Groundbreaking held, project underway
Cost: $1.35 billion
