Best Project, Water/Environment: James E Quarles Plant 1 Replacement project
Completing the $70.2-million replacement of the almost 70-year-old James E. Quarles Plant in Marietta, Ga., required careful coordination to keep water running. Crews had to demolish the former plant in a way to leave half of it operational while its replacement was constructed.
Now, the plant’s initial capacity of 33 million gallons of treated water per day are flowing from the Chattahoochee River into surrounding communities.