Projects
The following represents a partial list of recent water and wastewater projects AQUA has been performed.

Wastewater Treatment Projects

Hyrum Water Reclamation Facility - 2004
Location: Hyrum, Utah
Contact: Brent Jensen, City Administrator
Phone: (435) 245-6033
Description: 2.0 mgd Kubota / Enviroquip flat plate membrane bioreactor (MBR) facility. Total cost of project was $5 million. Project included a new belt press facility, new headworks, anoxic zones, aerobic zones, membrane tanks, blower room, electrical and control room, UV disinfection, all inside a block building. It also included site work, yard piping, and new shop offices. Replaced an aging oxidation ditch facility.

Tremonton Water Reclamation Facility - 2004
Location: Tremonton, Utah
Contact: Paul Fulgham, Public Works Director
Phone: (435) 257-2676
Description: A 2.4 mgd STM / Aerotor facility. Total cost of project was $2.5 million. Project included rehabilitation of primary clarifier, eight large aerators, rehabilitation of 2 secondary clarifiers, rehabilitation of sand filters, new UV disinfection and new headworks. Replaced an aging oxidation ditch.

Chino Valley Water Reclamation Facility - 2004
Location: Chino Valley, Arizona
Contact: Chris Bartels, Utilities Director
Phone: (928) 636-7140
Description: A 0.5 mgd to 1.0 mgd Kubota / Enviroquip flat plate membrane bioreactor (MBR) facility including headworks, belt press facility, anoxic tanks, aeration tanks, membrane tanks, UV disinfection, electrical and control, main pump station, septage receiving and rapid infiltration basins. The total cost was $3.75 million. Received the Governor's Award for rural projects.

Spanish Fork Water Reclamation Facility - 2004
Location: Spanish Fork, Utah
Contact: Dennis Sorensen
Phone: (801) 798-5061
Description: A 4.5 mgd facility that just recently went through several upgrades including a new belt press facility, new STM Aerotors (8) for biological capacity, new final clarifier, rehabilitation of old clarifiers, new headworks, new chlorine contact basin and equipment, controls / SCADA system, and pumping station rehabilitation. The total cost was $4.0 million. Currently designing another biological upgrade and new anaerobic digester.

Oakley Water Reclamation Facility - 2003
Location: Oakley, Utah
Contact: Doug Evans, Operator
Phone: (435) 940-1916
Description: A 0.25 mgd Zenon Zeeweed hollow fiber membrane bioreactor (MBR) facility. The total cost was $1.7 million. Project included main pump station, headworks, anoxic basin, aeration membrane tanks, UV disinfection, full laboratory, electrical controls and sludge dewatering. Replaced an aerated lagoon system. Received the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) grand award.

 

Water Treatment Projects

Lost Creek Water Transmission Pipeline and Treatment Plant
Location: Park City, Utah
Contact: Doug Evans
Phone: (435) 940-1916
Description: AQUA Engineering, Inc. was hired by Mountain Regional Water Special Service District in 2002 to look at routes to bring over the water from the Weber River and to design a 6 million gallon a day water treatment facility. The path up the Lost Creek Canyon was chosen for the pipeline, thus giving the project its name, and Signal Hill in the Promontory Ranches development was chosen as the site for the treatment plant. The construction was started in late fall of 2003, and the water plant received its approval from the State Drinking Water staff in February of 2005, marking the end of a $13 million dollar, design-build project with AQUA Engineering, of Bountiful, Utah and Ames Construction, of Salt Lake, Utah. The project consists of the first riverbank, groundwater collection system in Utah. It also has a large booster pump station with six, 350 horsepower pumps, one 200 horsepower pump, and 5.2 miles of a combination of 24 inch diameter mortar lined and coated-welded steel, ductile iron, and high density polyethylene pipe. There is a 1,000 feet rise in elevation along the 24 inch pipe, which passes through some sensitive environmental areas, has two highway crossings and one river crossing. The beautiful terminal reservoir by the treatment plant is rock lined along the banks and holds 40 acre feet of water. The treatment plant is one of the first micro-filtration membrane plants in the State of Utah, treating 3 million gallons a day, and easily expandable to 6 million gallons a day. The river bank infiltration system develops 1,480 acre-feet of water, and a future simple expansion to Rockport Reservoir brings the total developed water source to 6,600 acre feet.

Keetley Water Treatment Plant
Location: Park City, Utah
Contact: Kerry Gee
Phone: (435) 649-8011
This is a 15 mgd facility which AQUA was teamed with EWP (now Stantech) in the design and construction of the water treatment plant. This plant was constructed by Ames Construction in 2000-2001. AQUA was responsible for the Infilco Degramont Densadeg system to remove heavy metals prior to sand filtration. The treatment system consisted of entrance works, flocculation chambers, lime slaking and milk of lime addition, high rate, plate settling clarifiers, sludge removal and storage, sludge dewatering with plate and frame press, CO2 addition for pH adjustment, traveling bridge filters, on-site chlorine generation for disinfection, and a complete control and SCADA system. All this is enclosed a building found at the Keetley mine portal at the northwest side of Jordanelle Reservoir.

Bountiful City Mueller Park Plant
Location: Bountiful, Utah
Contact: Dave Wilding
Phone: (801) 298-6180
In 2000, AQUA was asked to come in a upgrade the existing 2 mgd Trident-Micro Floc plant. This included improvements to the feed pipe system, the clarifiers, the chemical addition system, the backwash system, and the instrumentation and control system was completely upgraded by SKM (AQUA subsidiary).

Snowbird Water Treatment Plant
Location: Snowbird, Utah
Contact: Keith Hanson
Phone: (801) 278-9660
Besides being involved in the piloting of several treatment technologies, AQUA/SKM has totally upgraded the control system for the treatment facility.

Kennecott Copper
AQUA has been involved in several water treatment projects for Kennecott over the years. Those have been the Mine Water Neutralization project, the Bonneville Lime Slaking Project, and currently, AQUA is contract operation the Day Break Water Treatment and Pumping System.

Oakley Water Reclamation Facility/ Collection System
Location: Oakley, Utah
Contact: Doug Evans, Operator (former Mayor)
Phone: (435) 940-1916
Master planned a 0.25 mgd Zenon Zeeweed hollow fiber membrane bioreactor (MBR) facility, modeled and mapped the collection system, and cleaned and TV's the system. The total cost of constructed project was $1.9 million. On the treatment side, project included main pump station, headworks, anoxic basin, aeration membrane tanks, UV disinfection, full laboratory, electrical controls and sludge dewatering. Replaced an aerated lagoon system. Received the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) grand award.

Other Water Projects

AQUA has been involved in several water projects that include booster pumping, well development, water storage, water distribution, modeling and GIS of water systems, and systems operations. Some of the clients that AQUA has worked for and continues to work with are:

West Wendover Water Resource Development and Delivery Project
Location: Elko County, Nevada
Contact: Glenn Wadsworth - Chair/Chris Melville - Administrator
Client Name: Administrative Authority/City of West Wendover, Nevada
Phone: (775) 664-3081
AQUA Engineering has just completed this water resource development project for the Wendover community on the Utah - Nevada border. Funding was provided by the USDA and Aqua Engineering was also successful in obtaining $2 million in grants from the state of Nevada. The total project cost was approximately $19.9 million. The project included replacement of 28 miles of 12-inch and 10-inch steel transmission pipeline with 24-inch and 20-inch ductile iron and PVC transmission pipeline; drilling and equipping a fifth groundwater well capable of producing 750 GPM; rehabilitation and redevelopment of Johnson Spring and reconstruction of the Johnson Spring booster pumping station; rehabilitation of a 1.5 MG concrete lined reservoir which was retrofitted with an aluminum Geotruss cover. Because the majority of the project is located on federal lands, Aqua Engineering worked closely with the BLM and supervised permitting activities including cultural resource surveys and full-time archeological observation for portions of the line that paralleled the Hasting's Cutoff of the Oregon Trail.

Hyrum City
Location: Hyrum, Utah
Contact: Brent Jensen
Phone: (435) 245-6033
Water system analysis, line extensions, master planning. Currently serve as City Engineer.

Grantsville City Culinary Water and Wastewater Systems Master
Location: Grantsville, Utah
Contact: Wendy Palmer, City Clerk
Phone: (435) 884-3411
This project involved culinary water and wastewater systems master planning efforts for this rapidly growing Tooele County community which recently added a Wal-Mart Distribution Center to its tax base. Both utilities were evaluated using a 20-year planning window coupled with projected growth based on development trends and land use policies. Grantsville City continues to expand in several directions and thus its infrastructure needs become increasingly challenging. Grantsville's current population is 6800 but the number of residents is sure to double and likely to triple within the next 20 years as the amount of land available for urbanization along the Wasatch Front dwindles and the large tracts of undeveloped land in the Tooele Valley draw ever-increasing attention.

Mountain Regional Water
Location: Summit County, Utah
Contact: Doug Evans
Phone: (435) 940-1916
Besides the major Lost Creek Project, Aqua has done numerous booster pumps stations, line extension, system modeling, and SCADA system.