Chesterfield staff seek $168 million Procter Creek plant expansion, request $21 million appropriation

Chesterfield Utilities staff on Oct. 5 asked the utilities board to award the first-phase contract for a major expansion of the Procter Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant to MEB General Contractors and to appropriate $21,000,000 from the rate stabilization reserve to cover remaining project funding and construction inspection costs. The project would expand the plant’s design capacity from 27,000,000 gallons per day to 54,000,000 gallons per day and is expected to take about five years, with completion around 2031.

The request came during a presentation by Mister Hayes, a Chesterfield Utilities staff member, who described the work as the initial phase of a multi-phased master plan first identified in 2012 and entered into the utility’s rate model in 2016. “The project before you tonight is the first phase of a multilayered master plan to expand that facility from 27,000,000 gallons a day to 54,000,000 gallons a day, doubling the size of the facility and providing our residents over 90 years of future wastewater capacity,” Hayes said.

Hayes outlined four primary components: hydraulic improvements to the fine screen building including larger effluent piping and a bypass to a flow equalization basin sized for 54 MGD; complete rehabilitation of the influent pump station including replacement of…