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Erie moves ahead with design for North Water Treatment Facility; council approves design contract
Summary
After a detailed technical briefing on reverse-osmosis treatment, reservoir options and brine disposal, Erie council approved a contract for final design with Burns & McDonnell and endorsed a construction-manager-at-risk delivery approach; council stressed timing to pilot-test equipment this summer.
Erie Town Council on April 8 voted to award the final-design contract for the proposed North Water Treatment Facility to Burns & McDonnell and discussed the project’s technical, schedule and budget risks in a lengthy presentation and council Q&A.
Town manager Malcolm Fleming introduced the item and said the Phase 1 plant is intended to add redundancy and capacity on Erie’s north side. Burns & McDonnell consultant Brett Pugh walked council through treatment needs, technology choices and phasing: Phase 1 targets roughly 6.6 million gallons per day (MGD) of new capacity that, combined with the existing southern plant (~17 MGD on paper), would be scalable with later phases as population grows. Pugh said the plant will rely on reverse osmosis to treat high total dissolved solids (TDS) in Boulder Creek source water (Boulder Creek averages around 500 mg/L TDS and ranges 200–900 mg/L), which…
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