Note about storm safety for construction zones
NEW UPDATE PHOTOS: Wastewater Wednesdays!
Today’s update includes a note about storm safety for construction zones like the New Mainland Wastewater Treatment Facility. FPUA is monitoring Hurricane Helene's track and potential impact to our service territory. In addition to the preparations being made at the existing Island Water Reclamation Facility to weather the storm, crews and contractors are also preparing the new MWRF's worksite by securing materials, stationing the site's cranes and equipment, and ensuring all of the dewatering pumps are fueled and ready to go for the drainage and recovery efforts after the storm has passed
Last week, we shared about the progress on pipework connecting the treatment basins, slab framing of the operations and maintenance building and pipework and encasements feeding the headworks of the New Mainland Wastewater Treatment Facility.
In this week’s photos, we can see the progress made in between the rain showers the last few weeks. We can now get a better look at the upper catwalks and effluent troughs of the Nereda basins, and the crews finishing off the sludge thickener tanks.
We also see the completed first pour of the operations and maintenance building’s foundation. Part two of the slab’s pour will be taking place in the following weeks before masons start to go vertical with the O&M building’s walls. And finally, a few new aerial shots and a reference shot from last February just to get a sense of how far we’ve come already!
