Award Winning Water System Improvements

The City of Waukegan retained the Baxter & Woodman Boller Design-Build team to complete a $6.0 million upgrade at its 30 mgd Lake Michigan surface water treatment plant, including

• Complete reconstruction of gravity filters
• Complete replacement of the following chemical treatment equipment
• Two new backwash reclaim pumps and appurtenances with controls
• Two new sludge pumps, valves, valve actuators, piping and flow meter with  controls
• Repairs to sludge thickener equipment in Sludge Storage Tank
• HVAC improvements in Raw Water Pump Station
• New Chlorine residual analyzers added at three existing booster pumping stations
• Replacement of five 24-inch gate valves and five 30-inch gate valves with new butterfly valves and electric valve actuators