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CONSTRUCTION sewage plant . A bigger headache is the need to keep everything covered . Open water attracts birds : birds and low-flying aircraft represent a mutual threat !
gpd treatment facility has just been completed , he explains , but is not being put into service until flows from the mushrooming housing development in the area are enough to make it efficient to start up and operate – most likely early in 2019 .
Eventually that facility could grow to its master-planned capacity of 8 MGD , he envisages . Close proximity to an airfield comes with other challenges . Clearly the height of any construction has to be limited , however that ’ s not too much of a burden for a
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As Arizona ’ s cities expand , EPCOR will continue to provide localized solutions . “ When you have lots of small developments and they are not contiguous then it can make sense to have localized treatment ,” says Brown . This is good news for EPCOR and its partners . It happens that both the projects we have discussed so far have been delivered by the design / construction teams of Water Works Engineers and Archer Western Contractors ( Walsh Group ), however , EPCOR works with many local consultants and contractors .
Not everyone is blessed with a surface water supply . Many communities still rely exclusively on wells , but climate change is drying the wells up so in some areas around Phoenix people have come to rely some or all of
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