creating a culture of safety on a project that involved hundreds of people during its design and construction phases. The treatment plant, scheduled for completion in 2024, will include 14 buildings and be able to clean 75 million gallons of water per day. Its design left room for the plant to be expanded to clean up to 150 million gallons of water per day in the future as needed. During 2023 and 2024, work at the site includes finishing construction of buildings inside and out along with the delivery, installation and testing of treatment equipment and systems. A major feature of the site visible from Highway 93 is the round, concrete tops of two giant water storage tanks. Most of the two tanks are buried underground and each is capable of holding 10 million gallons of clean, safe drinking water. Denver Water crews install, repair & maintain more than 3,000 miles of pipelines that collect and deliver clean, safe drinking water to 1.5 million people in Denver and surrounding suburbs every day. (Photo: Denver Water)
In 2022, Denver Water successfully sought $76 million federal funding to supports the Lead Reduction Program. The money has allowed the utility to increase the pace of the replacement work, adding 3,000 to 5,000 lead service line replacements to the 2023 and 2024 work schedules, beyond the 4,500 already scheduled for replacement during each of those years. In March 2020, Denver Water also raised the pH of the water it delivers to customers to help reduce the risk of lead getting into water as it passes through customers’ internal plumbing that may contain lead. Northwater Treatment Plant Work on Denver Water’s new, state-of-the-art Northwater Treatment Plant next to Ralston Reservoir north of Golden in 2023 received multiple awards for the work that went into Water cascades from Strontia Springs Dam, located six miles up Waterton Canyon southwest of the metro area, into the South Platte River, one of two major river systems in Denver Water’s collection system. (Photo: Denver Water)
Video: Northwater Treatment Plant progress update for Summer 2023.
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