en.Wedoany.com Reported - Carollo Engineers recently announced that it has been awarded a construction management contract for Phase I of the Ophir Water Treatment Plant in Placer County, California. Once completed, the project will alleviate the pressure on existing facilities of the Placer County Water Agency, which currently operate near full capacity during the summer months.
The new water plant is located on a 22-acre site on Ophir Road in Auburn, California, approximately 33 miles north of Sacramento. The first phase of the project has an investment of $210 million and will initially add a treatment capacity of 10 million gallons per day, meeting the water needs of 10,000 households. According to the plan, the plant's total treatment capacity will reach 30 million gallons per day upon full completion.
Carollo, headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, will be responsible for schedule and cost tracking, inspection, documentation, and project coordination for the first phase of the project. It will also perform Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) programming, which involves creating software applications to control a series of hardware components in an industrial environment. The press release did not disclose future plans, subsequent phases, or contract amounts, and Carollo did not respond to requests for comment before publication.
California is facing ongoing drought threats. According to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the state has become drier since 1895, with five of the driest 30 months on record occurring in 2021 and 2022. The U.S. Drought Monitor currently rates Placer County as "exceptionally dry." Carollo stated that the Ophir Water Treatment Plant will alleviate capacity constraints at PCWA's Foothill Water Treatment Plant in Newcastle.
"The Ophir Water Treatment Plant will provide the community with a resilient and reliable water supply while strengthening critical water infrastructure for future generations in the region," said Keith Corcoran, Carollo's project manager, in the press release.
Water infrastructure projects across the United States continue to gain momentum among both large public builders and regional contractors. In April of this year, Carollo was awarded a $200 million contract for construction management of a water reclamation facility north of Reno, Nevada.
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