Cardinal Contractors to upgrade water treatment facility in Texas, US

US based specialty construction and infrastructure firm Cardinal Contractors has won a new contract worth $16m to increase the capacity of a water treatment plant in Abilene, Texas.

Cardinal is expected to start working on the project in the second quarter of 2015. Completion for the project has been scheduled in the second quarter of 2016.

Under the terms of the contract, the water treatment capacity of the facility is expected to double from six million gallons per day (MGD) to around 12 MGD.

The first phase of the project is expected to be completed within 120 days.

The City of Abilene has pre-selected most of the process equipment required for the upgrade.

The project will involve construction of new pre-treatment facilities to better the quality and efficiency of the existing membrane filtration system at the plant.

The upgrade works at the plant will also involve installation of a new parallel membrane filtration system, improvement for the raw water delivery and chemical feed systems.

Cardinal’s scope of work will include about 3,600 cubic yards of concrete, 10,000 cubic yards of structural excavation, and approximately 11,000ft of underground piping for the facility upgrades.

US construction company Primoris Services said the contract has been awarded by a municipal customer.

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Image: Cypress Street in Abeline, Texas, US. Photo: Courtesy of Keithimus / Wikipedia.