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Fairhope hears $40M phased plan to modernize wastewater plant, prioritize redundancy
Summary
Krebs Engineering briefed the Fairhope City Council on Phase 2 improvements to the city’s wastewater treatment plant, proposing phased upgrades to add redundancy and raise average-day capacity toward 6–8 MGD; the firm estimated capital costs near $40 million and said the plan avoids a costly greenfield plant.
Caleb Leach of Krebs Engineering presented a Phase 2 plan to upgrade Fairhope’s wastewater treatment plant, emphasizing redundancy and reuse of the existing site. The firm told the City Council on Feb. 9 that the plant’s current average daily flow is about 2.2 million gallons per day (MGD) with peak flows to roughly 10 MGD during storms, and that the proposed work would increase average treatment capacity toward 6 MGD in the near term with room to reach about 8 MGD in the future.
The project seeks to add redundancy to systems that currently lack bypasses or spare channels, Leach said. He described recent Headworks…
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