The South Milwaukee Water Utility and the engineering firm responsible for the utility’s recent filtration system improvements have received a prestigious award for the project.
From the Sheboygan Press story:
A Best of State Award was presented to Donohue and the South Milwaukee Water Utility for an upgrade to the utility’s water treatment plant. The Utility has one of the oldest water treatment plants along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Donohue designed a conversion of its existing sand filtration process to a modern ultra-filtration pressurized membrane system, the first of its kind in the state.
A creative design layout made extensive use of existing buildings, as all new systems were placed within the confines of the existing footprint. The construction cost for a typical membrane water filtration plant is $2 to $3 per gallon of water treated, but through Donohue’s creative reuse of existing facilities, the South Milwaukee project cost approximately $1.40 per gallon. The system has the capacity to treat 6 million gallons per day.
From the press release on the Donohue website:
Also of note is the complex construction sequencing that allowed the plant to continuously treat water while the facilities underwent a complete transformation during construction.
Douglas Fischer, South Milwaukee Water Utility Superintendent, summed up his thoughts on this project by stating, “Our new facilities are working great and the water quality is amazing. Donohue’s creative solutions to the design and construction challenges posed by the project constraints made this possible.”
Congratulations to the Water Utility And Donohue for a job very well done!
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