Bakersfield WWTP#3

Ariel view of the plant.
Owner: City of Bakersfield Public Works Department
Engineer: Parsons
General Contractor: Kiewit Pacific Co.
Location: Bakersfield, CA

MEC is working as a subcontractor to Kiewit Pacific Co. at the Bakersfield Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) .The project entails the construction and upgrade of the WWTP from a 16mgd to 32mgd capacity plant. MEC’s work includes the following:

  • Installation of 3,900lf of 60” sewer pipe
  • A new headworks which includes mechanically cleaned bar screens, influent pumps & grit removal tanks
  • Conversion off 4 existing secondary clarifiers into primary clarifiers
  • A new activated sludge secondary treatment system
  • A 2mgd tertiary (rapid mixer, cloth media filters, chlorine contact tank) treatment system
  • Six new effluent percolation basins and new effluent pump stations
  • Dissolved airfloatation sludge thickeners
  • Two new anaerobic sludge digesters & sludge dewatering building
  • New power cogeneration building
  • Plant wide odor control system
  • New administration/operation building and maintenance shop
  • Control & monitoring
  • Instrumentation & SCADA system