Florida to Open Wastewater Plant

Escambia County in Florida, US, is to open its $316m water reclamation plant in December 2010.

The new plant can treat 1,200gal of water a minute and will treat 2.5 billon gallons of water a year to remove contaminants from water supplies, according to northhescambia.com.

The plant has 16 6,000gal treatment tanks and two tanks to filter out perchlorate materials, after which the water will be pumped into a second set of two tanks.

The plant was constructed well above the flood plain and is capable of resisting hurricane-force winds.

The construction of the plant was funded through grants from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, the state of Florida, Escambia County and the city of Pensacola.