Construction Group of Choice

Water / Wastewater

Wharton-Smith consistently ranks as the top Southeast contractor in the delivery of water supply projects, according to Engineering News Record (ENR) Southeast magazine. Our expertise ranges across all water and wastewater process technologies. Our work began in the water and wastewater market in Central Florida in 1984. It has since grown to cover the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean. We have built our reputation in this market by providing the highest quality product at the most competitive price. Whether through competitive low bids, or selected via design-build or Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) project delivery, our team of degreed and registered engineers have the expertise and experience to deliver the very best value to our clients.

Wharton-Smith provided Design-Bid-Build services at the Player’s Club Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) for St. John’s County. The scope included the construction of a new 2.4 MGD WRF. Construction took place…
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Wharton-Smith provided General Contracting services to expand the existing J. Robert Dean Water Treatment Plant (WTP) for the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority. This 6 MGD WTP plant includes a 10,500…
Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority
Wharton-Smith’s Charlotte division constructed a reverse osmosis water treatment plant (WTP) for the Town of Edisto Beach. This 1.8 MGD WTP plant includes three new water supply wells, a clearwell…
Town of Edisto Beach
Wharton-Smith is providing general contracting services at the Hamlin Water Reclamation Facility for the Orange County Board of Commissioners. This new 5.0 MGD facility includes all systems such as a…
Orange County Board of County Commissioners
Wharton-Smith served as design-builder for the City of Miramar’s first Design-Build Utility Project. The work at the 6 MGD water treatment plant consisted of four new production wells, one deep…
The City of Miramar
Wharton-Smith provided construction management services on the new reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment plant addition which was built adjacent to the existing Shell Creek Water Treatment Plant. The new plant…
City of Punta Gorda
Our Wharton-Smith Orlando Water Division began production on December 2019 for the City of Orlando’s Iron Bridge RWRF Diffused Aeration Replacement project. The team is working on the installation of…
City of Orlando
The Screen & Grit Improvements Project was a $6 million change order to the original Electrical Upgrades Project for the City of Fort Myers. The additional scope included to repair…
The City of Fort Myers
The Seminole Tribe of Florida’s (STOF’s) Hollywood WWTP project is a 3-MGD new wastewater treatment facility, that consists of a 4,000 s.f. operations building with a state-of-the-art SCADA room, laboratory,…
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Wharton-Smith provided Construction Management services on Three Oaks WWTP Oxidation Ditch Improvements project. This work included demolition of an existing plant, installation of 36” force main that required two…
Lee County Utilities
Wharton-Smith constructed an injection well pump station, Electrical building and other related electrical facilities, emergency generator with integral fuel storage tank, injection well pads, monitoring well pads, monitoring…
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Wharton-Smith replaced an existing wastewater treatment plant with a new 250,000 gallons per day annual average daily flowrate wastewater treatment facility that includes the following: upgrades to Existing…
Seminole Tribe of Florida
The Hooper Road Pump Station project replaced six different pump stations throughout the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge. The project consisted of demolishing…
City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge
Wharton Smith constructed 11 new wastewater pump stations and rehabilitated one existing pump station. These pump stations ranged in size from 0.5 MGD up to 25 MGD for…
City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge
Wharton-Smith constructed eight new wastewater pump stations. These pump stations ranged in size from 765 GPM up to 30.5 MGD for the largest of the stations. The project…
City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge
The Wharton-Smith team demolished the existing flood control structure and constructed a newly-designed flood control structure using a most cost-efficient method of construction. The team installed a boat…
Iberville Parish Government
Wharton-Smith restored the City of Conroe’s Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant that was flooded by Hurricane Harvey. The plant was inundated with up to 10 feet of flood water during the…
City of Conroe
Wharton-Smith provided Construction Management At Risk services for the construction of two 7.5MG Ground Storage Tanks (GST), conversion of a 1.5MG GST, a concrete chlorine contact chamber, a…
Toho Water Authority
The Winter Springs WTP #1 Upgrades project involved improvements to the Winter Springs WTP #1 including: furnishing and installing the new anionic ion exchange system (consisting of three ion exchange…
The City of Winter Springs
Utilizing a joint collaboration between Volusia County Water Resources and Utilities, St John’s Water Regional Management District (SJRWMD), and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), the Southwest WRF…
Volusia County