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