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Broken Arrow highlights $1.094 million pump addition and 606-day timeline at water treatment plant
Summary
City officials discussed a project to add a fourth pump and wiring for a fifth at the Broken Arrow water treatment plant, a $1,094,000 effort intended to raise daily production capacity and provide resiliency; construction is expected to take 606 calendar days.
Aaron McCullough, director of communications for the City of Broken Arrow, said the council’s meeting included a contract award related to the city’s water treatment plant to add pumping capacity and system resiliency.
Vice Mayor Johnny Parks said the project will add a fourth pump to move water from the treatment plant into the city and will include wiring for a fifth pump. Parks described the work as a $1,094,000 project intended to increase the plant’s capacity and provide redundancy.
“What they’re doing is they’re putting in place a fourth water pump to pump water from the water plant into the city of Broken Arrow,” Parks said. “So, this is a million $94,000 project, and it's just to look to the future. It's also putting the wiring in for the fifth product. So we're not only looking for the future, we're looking for the future's future.”
Parks said the upgrades will help the plant reach a total production of 34,000,000 gallons daily and will provide backup in case an existing pump fails. He described the construction timeline as 606 calendar days and cautioned the work “will take a little bit of time.”
City communications noted the item was among several on the council agenda; officials directed residents seeking details to the city website’s agendas and minutes.
No formal vote tally, ordinance number or contract award reference was stated in the recorded remarks on the podcast excerpt.
For background, Parks and staff described the project as aimed at increasing capacity and resilience in the city’s distribution system; specific contract award documents, bid results and formal action records were not provided in the audio excerpt.
