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Award: Management of the construction of a water reuse facility
Value: Project cost of 200 million dollars
Location: North of Reno, Nevada
Customers: The City of Reno and the Truckee Meadows Water Authority
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Carollo Engineers will provide construction management services first water purification and reuse project in the state of Nevada, according to an April 8 announcement.
The $200 million advanced purified water facility, located north of Reno, will provide a drought-resistant local water source while reducing the discharge of reclaimed water into Swan Lake by up to 2 million gallons per day, according to the announcement. The installation will also improve the quality of the discharge water.
Carollo was hired by OneWater Nevada, a combination of the city of Reno and the Truckee Meadows Water Authority, as part of the region’s water conservation efforts.
“This groundbreaking project represents a significant milestone in long-term regional water security and sustainability,” said Keith Corcoran, vice president of Carollo Engineers, in the press release. “Our team is committed to providing expert construction oversight to facilitate the completion of this critical initiative.”
Carollo’s work includes resident engineering, quality oversight and contract administration at various project sites, according to the announcement.
The construction team will also upgrade the Reno-Stead Water Reclamation Facility and construct an export pump station, conveyance pipelines, finished water storage tanks and injection, monitoring and extraction wells. In addition, the project will include a potable water pipe for future connection to the TMWA water system.
Construction is expected to begin this summer and continue through November 2028, according to the announcement.
The need for new water infrastructure is urgent: climate change and pollution are causing a water crisis in the southwestaccording to reports from the non-profit newsroom Truthout.
The need is made even more powerful by the increase in the construction of data centers and semiconductor factories in the region Facilities are notoriously water-intensive; large data centers, for example, can do this consumes up to 5 million gallons of water per dayaccording to the Institute of Environmental and Energy Studies.
For this purpose, the water infrastructures, which received low grades of the American Society of Civil Engineers in its latest report, has become a suitable field for both public and private builders such as AECOM, Zachry Construction and Jacobs.
