On Tuesday, May 10, the City of Georgetown officially broke ground on the South Lake Water Treatment plant.
“This is going to be a great, great project for The City of Georgetown,” Mayor Josh Schroeder said at the groundbreaking. “It’s going to double our water treatment capacity and produce up to 44 million gallons per day of treated water. As everyone who has been in and around this community knows, water, especially treated water, is something that we desperately need and that we have been working to make happen for this community for some time now, and this is a huge day for us here in Georgetown.”
Just last year, he added, the City of Georgetown had over 5,000 new connections to the city water system.
This new plant, projected to be complete in 2025 or 2026, will be able to treat up to 44 million gallons of water per day, which is same capacity as all the current city treatment plants combined.
“Right now our max day treatment capacity is around between 40 and 44 million gallons a day,” Chelsea Solomon, Water Utilities Director for the City of Georgetown, told Hello Georgetown. “This plant itself is 44 million gallons. So, it purely doubles everything that we’ve got and this plant will take us out at least 10 years in our growth projections.”
PLW Waterworks will take on the construction of the project, which Mayor Schroeder said, is the largest construction project in the history of the City of Georgetown.
“We want to let Georgetown know that we want to provide jobs, we’re going to be providing jobs for the next four years,” Jesus Avila, Superintendent for PLW Waterworks, told Hello Georgetown. “We’re going to be employing at least a hundred new employees, it’s gonna be all skilled trade, and there’s also gonna be room for us to train. We’d like to just let you guys know that we’re here with open arms.”
According to the City of Georgetown, the project includes the water treatment facility as well as a raw water intake on Lake Georgetown and a raw water transmission line. Other elements of the project include an administration building that houses a secondary control center, process control labs, and additional office and administration space. You can read more about the treatment plant here.
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