Tampa Bay Water, Veolia unveil US water treatment plant

Tampa Bay Water has completed the construction of a new 120 million gallons per day water treatment plant in Tampa Bay, Florida, US, which was designed, built and will be operated by Veolia Water North America.

The Tampa Bay water regional surface water treatment plant will source water from the Alafia River, the Tampa Bypass Canal, the Hillsborough River and the CW Bill Young Regional Reservoir, delivering raw water through a 72in-diameter pipeline to the treatment plant.

Treatment elements will use a multi-barrier process including ballasted flocculation, ozonation, filtration through granular activated carbon gravity filters, disinfection, chemical dosing and solids processing.

Construction of the water storage tanks and a pump station that supplies water to the Tampa Bay Water member governments’ distribution systems were also completed.