BUILDING ON OUR LEGACY ASSET MANAGEMENT
CWW has embraced Asset Management as a critical component of sustainability for well over a decade. The program facilitates op- timal decision-making at all stages of the infrastructure life-cycle. From global positioning of critical infrastructure, to developing and maintaining asset service levels, the program’s goals are to use a systematic and comprehensive quantitative analysis based on sound business principles and to prioritize projects and project future costs.
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements at both the North and South Water Columbus Water
Resource Facilities will improve consistency, ease of operation and cost effectiveness of the plants allowing CWW to keep its rates low. A $15 million upgrade at the wastewater treatment plant will ensure regulatory compliance. At the drinking water treatment plant, a $12 million improvement project, including filtration equipment and sedi- mentation basin upgrades increase the ability to meet the latest Envi- ronmental Protection Agency Disinfection Byproducts Phase II regula- tions. These projects extend the useful life of the plants well into the future and will keep CWW among the nation’s top 1 percent of water providers in terms of quality.
In order to increase reliability and provide more capacity to the growing North Columbus area as well as to its customers in Harris and Talbot counties, CWW completed a new feeder main at a cost of $7 million. These new 42” and 36” pipes also provide redundancy.
FORT BENNING PLANT On September 12, 2012, Columbus Water Works and Fort Benning
officials formally cut the ribbon on a new $30 million water treatment plant. This state-of-the-art facility will serve the thousands of soldiers and their families living on the installation. Columbus Water Works’ original plan to supply water to Fort Ben- ning solely from the North Columbus Water Resources plant was changed when additional water demands for BRAC were estimated. As a result, the old Fort Benning water treatment plant was de- molished and reconstructed to meet Fort Benning’s average demand. It uses the latest technology for filtration, employs a state-of-the-art disinfection system and is completely automated. An operator is on duty but the plant can be totally monitored and controlled from the Columbus plant, therefore making the Fort Benning operation more efficient and cost effective.
In addition to the plant, Columbus Water Works built a water in- take on the Chattahoochee River. Water was being drawn from Upatoi Creek, but it was determined not to be a reliable source for either water quality or quantity.
A DROPLET OF WISDOM
“The FBWTP is a state-of-the-art facility. There have not been any complaints regarding water pres- sure and taste.”
-George Steuber, Deputy Garrison Commander, Fort Benning
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