Bakersfield WWTP#3

Mass. Electric Construction Co. (MEC) worked as a subcontractor to Kiewit Pacific Co. at the Bakersfield Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP). The project entailed the construction and upgrade of the WWTP from a 16mgd to 32mgd capacity plant.

 

MEC’s work included the following: 

• Installation of a new 12,000-volt service and plant power loop feeder 
• system
• Installation of a new self-healing fiber-optic SCADA loop incorporating
• new and existing facilities
• Associated power distribution, lighting, and process controls for: 
• A new headworks structure 
•  The conversion of four (4) existing secondary clarifiers into primary clarifiers
• A new activated sludge secondary treatment system including a new blower building, new aeration basin, and four (4) new secondary clarifiers
• A new 2mgd tertiary treatment system (cloth media filtration,  
• chemical feed system, and the reclaimed water storage system)
• Two (2) new anaerobic sludge digesters & sludge dewatering  
• building
• A new power cogeneration building
• The new administration and operations buildings and plant  
• maintenance facility