Articles Tagged with ''water/environment''

The $400-million P3 puts ACWA Power behind Azerbaijan’s first desalination plant near the capitol of Baku, while financing and EPC details are still being worked out.

For decades, the city of La Pine faced a critical public health and environmental challenge due to widespread reliance on aging and failing septic systems.

Rather than hiding behind fences, this wet weather facility sits prominently at the gateway to the Georgetown neighborhood

The Julius Nyerere hydroelectric dam seeks to address Africa’s growing demand for electricity as well as sustainable development.

Since the late 1980s, the Irish town of Arklow, about 90 minutes south of Dublin, has struggled to build a wastewater treatment plant, but delays and setbacks slowed development of a facility.

The primary goal of this project was to efficiently convey wastewater to the treatment plant, which involved installing a new large sewer tie-in structure in addition to rehabilitating an existing structure.

Repairs and upgrades were made to the treatment plant’s power supply and electrical components and to the high service pump station, the city’s largest potable water pump station.

Between 2010 and 2020, the town of Wellington saw its population explode by 75%, resulting in a significant strain on its 1984-era water treatment plant’s 2-million-gallon-per-day capacity.

Adaptability was essential to rehabilitate this century-old, high-hazard dam, with challenges ranging from severe winter weather that delayed concrete placement and excavation to rock elevations that required use of a secant pile wall instead of the originally designed sheet pile wall.

The $20.6-million project houses advanced water treatment equipment and support facilities and also has space for future treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as forever chemicals.