Water. Other than the air we breathe, no resource is more vital to our life. As the largest regional water provider in Kansas, the City of Wichita serves more than 500,000 people – 17% of the state’s population. This includes Wichita residents, surrounding communities, industries and wholesale customers.
Our region’s health, economy and vibrancy all depend on a safe, reliable and trustworthy water supply. To ensure this water supply long into the future, the city is replacing its 80-year-old water treatment plant. All agree this must happen to protect the community from the potential issues associated with an aging plant.
The new state-of-the-art, fully redundant, drought-resistant treatment facility will be able to deliver 120 million gallons per day. It looks far into the future and anticipates serving the next several generations. The facility will take a projected 1.6 million trade man-hours to build. Once you realize how impressive it is – a main building as big as several football fields, pipes up to 96” across – you will understand why. It will be built to last.
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While Wichita’s current water treatment facility is well maintained, it is 80 years old. The team is looking at ways to accelerate the timeline to bring the new facility online ahead of the five-year estimate.
The City of Wichita retained Garver – a nationally respected engineering firm with a local office in the city – as an expert third-party source for project review and oversight. Garver specializes in water infrastructure. It has a century-strong reputation with 600 employees in 30 offices nationwide.