USA payers $ 10 million out of our reserves to fund the project , it ’ s going to cost us around $ 6 million .”
Ocala Water Resources awarded the project to Brandes Design Build on May 6 , 2014 , and commenced construction on June 9 , 2014 . The project is predicted to be 535 days of construction and is expected to be completed by November 26 , 2015 .
Looking Forward Once WRF # 2 is completed , the near future goal will then be to take WRF # 1 offline , as it was built in 1949 and is an outdated facility , and reverse the flows so that all flows are going through WRFs # 2 and # 3 so that all the water flowing through Ocala Water Resources wastewater treatment facilities will have nitrogen removed to the level of AWT that the state approves of , and will be required to reduce nitrogen loading for Springs protection .
Designs are also currently in the planning horizon to expand WRF # 3 and expand that facility from a design capacity of 4 million gallons per day to design capacity of 8 million gallons per day which will assist in maintaining current total treatment capacity when WRF # 1 goes off-line and will add some additional capacity for future growth . Just as was done for the current WRF # 2 treatment facility improvement project , when the design has been completed , Ocala Water Resources will try to reduce costs and applying for any available grants to help with the funding .
Company Information
Industry
Water and Sewer / Utilities
headquarters
Florida
founded
Over 100 years ago
employees
82
revenue
$ 25.6 million / per year
www . Ocalafl . org 271