Project to treat water for more than 50,000 Fort Worth residents

DALLAS –  – McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., a Texas builder since 1980, recently began construction on a $47-million project for the construction of the Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant.  This new water treatment facility will have an initial treatment capacity of 12-million-gallons of water per day and will be expandable to meet the future needs of western Fort Worth.

Upon completion, this facility will treat raw water from the recently installed Tarrant Regional Water Board 90-inch raw water main that connects Eagle Mountain Lake with the East Texas water supply in Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers reservoirs. It will then distribute the treated water to the growing west side of Fort Worth.

The project’s pre-treatment facilities include an ozone contact basin, flocculation and sedimentation basins, as well as filters and a membrane facility for treatment. Also included in the new water treatment facility will be an operations building, wash water recovery basins, a recycle pump station, a 2.5-million-gallon ground storage tank, a high-service pump station, an ozone chemical building, an electrical building and related site and civil work.

“This is a major project for McCarthy, and we are excited to utilize our background in water treatment developments,” said Mike McWay, president of McCarthy’s Texas Division.  “We look forward to implementing our expertise in precise quality and safety during all project phases in an effort to bring better water to the citizens of Fort Worth.”

“We’re excited about this new facility because it is our first membrane treatment plant that should provide excellent finished water quality along with ease of expansion in the future. In addition, this plant location in our water distribution will provide the most redundancy that Fort Worth has had since the Eagle Mountain Water Treatment Plant was constructed in 1992,” said S. Frank Crumb, P.E., water director for the Fort Worth Water Department. “We look forward to working with McCarthy on this important project to provide high quality and reliable service to Fort Worth and wholesale water customers for years to come.”

Construction for the Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant project began in August 2009 and is slated for completion in January 2012.  The engineer for the project is CDM.

About McCarthy
Celebrating nearly 30 years of building in Texas, McCarthy is the nation’s 10th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2009) and one of the nation’s oldest privately held construction firms.  An employee-owned company, McCarthy offers general contracting, construction management and design/build services for the following project types: parking structures, healthcare, educational, office buildings, bridges and highways, laboratory, biotechnology, entertainment, retail, microelectronic, and industrial facilities, tenant interiors, mixed-use and multifamily residential.  In addition to Dallas, McCarthy has offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego and Newport Beach, Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; St. Louis and Atlanta.  For more information please visit www.mccarthy.com.

About Fort Worth Water Department
The Department is a regional water and wastewater provider, serving over 1 million people in Fort Worth and its 30 wholesale customer entities. When completed, the Westside Water Treatment Plant will be the fifth potable water treatment plant in its system and increase the maximum daily treatment capacity to 497 million gallons a day. For more information please visit: www.fortworthgov.org/water/.