A major milestone activity began this week in the Process Improvements Project at the Omohundro WTP. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) began construction of a tunnel that will relocate stormwater drainage around the new treatment facility. The TBM will carve a 9-foot diameter bore through rock over a distance of 1,000 linear feet, and a […]

Intake design is a major contributor to the performance and efficiency of a pumping system, and is particularly important for large pumps (the finished water pumps are 2500 horsepower each!). The design team performed two types of hydraulic modeling as part of the intake design: computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling and physical modeling. CFD modeling […]

A temporary access road was constructed to facilitate equipment access to a remote part of the site where tunneling equipment staging and operation will be conducted.