Immokalee Reservation Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) Improvements
Location: Immokalee, Florida
Client: Seminole Tribe of Florida
Size: 250,000 GPD
Construction Cost: $10.6 million
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 Pump Station 3; headworks with a rotating drum screen plus a manual bar screen for bypass and a Pista Grit Removal System; three train biological treatment system for carbonaceous removal plus nitrification consisting of Anoxic Tanks and Air Activated Sludge Tanks; fine bubble and coarse bubble aeration systems; Positive Displacement Blower System to serve the aeration tanks as well as the digesters, with canopy cover; secondary clarifiers; Chlorine Contact Tanks; Effluent Pumping Station; Plant Service Water Station; Sodium Hypochlorite Storage and Dosing System with a metal canopy; Return Sludge and Recycle Pumping Systems, with canopy cover; Aerobic Digesters; Canopy cover for Sludge Dewatering area north of headworks; Electrical Building and related Electrical Service Upgrades; Yard Piping improvements and other related Underground Utilities, Civil/Site work; maintenance of all ongoing existing site utilities and services with minimal to no impact; and all other miscellaneous work for a complete wastewater treatment system. This project was completed 11/18.