Octoraro Water Treatment Plant – Pretreatment Improvements

Client: Chester Water Authority
Engineer: CET Engineering Services
Location: Octoraro, Pennsylvania
Value: $5.5 Million
Completion: June 2008

Details:
The Project consisted of constructing pretreatment improvements to the Water Treatment Plant.

Major work elements included:

• New raw water blend tank to blend Octoraro Reservoir water with Susquehanna River water.

• Installation of new stainless steel inclined plate settlers in Sedimentation Basins 1, 2, 3 and 4.

• Sedimentation basin concrete outlet flumes with new filter top mixer.

• Modification to Clearwell flumes.

• New filter top lime feed pumps and FRP Building.

• New post 1ime feed pumps.

• Related electrical work.