Bakersfield Water Treatment Plant, CA, USA
Key Data:
Preliminaries (phase 1 intake construction)
Autumn 1999
Official groundbreaking
16 November 2001
Completion and start-up
June 2003
Build phase
19 months
Design to final completion
32 months
Project cost
$29.4 million
Current treatment capacity
75,600m³/day designed for ready expansion to 151,200m³/day
Planned final treatment capacity
226,800m³/day
Raw water turbidity range
15 NTU to 1,500 NTU
Product water turbidity range
0.02 NTU to 0.03 NTU
Key Players:
Plant owners / operators
California Water Service Company
Water supply providers
City of Bakersfield
Site providers
Kern County
Construction team leader
Black and Veatch
Site rough grading
West Valley Construction
Other project partners
Dillingham Construction, Kennedy Jenks, Bookman-Edmonston
Membrane filtration system
Pall Corporation
Pumps (vertical-turbine type)
Peerless
