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Award: California water treatment plant
Value: $210 million for the first phase
Location: Placer County, California
Customer: Placer County Water Agency
After a $200 million contract won in April for a water facility in Nevada, Carollo Engineers has landed another water job, this time in California.
The company will manage the construction of phase 1 of the new Ophir water treatment plant in Placer CountyCalifornia, Carollo announced on June 16. Once completed, the new plant will relieve demand on the Placer County Water Agency’s current facilities, which are approaching maximum operating capacity during the summer.
The plant will be located on a 22-acre site along Ophir Road in Auburn, California, a city about 33 miles north of Sacramento. The first phase will cost $210 million, per builder. The plant will initially add 10 million gallons per day of treated water capacity, which is enough to serve 10,000 families.
Walnut Creek, California Carollo will manage schedule and cost tracking, inspection, documentation and project coordination during the plant’s initial phase. Future plans, phases and amounts of the contracts were not disclosed in the press release, and Carollo did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.
The water contractor will also perform supervisory control and data acquisition programming, also known as SCADA programming, which creates software applications in industrial environments that control a number of hardware components.
When completed, the Ophir plant will support up to 30 million gallons per day of treatment capacity.
Drought conditions have been widespread and persistent in Californiathat has become driest since 1895, according to the state’s Office of Environmental Health Risk Assessment, with five of the driest 30 months on record in 2021 and 2022. Placer County it currently has an “abnormally dry” rating. from the US Drought Monitor.
To that end, the facility will ease capacity constraints at PCWA’s Foothill Water Treatment Plant in Newcastle, the agency’s largest facility, according to Carollo.
“The Ophir water treatment plant will provide a resilient and reliable water supply for the community while strengthening the region’s critical water infrastructure for generations to come,” Keith Corcoran, director of Carollo, said in the press release.
Water infrastructure works have gained momentum across the country between the two great public builders and regional contractors like Carollo. In April, Carollo got a $200 million contract Manage the construction of a water reuse facility north of Reno, Nevada.
