RTD News

RTD Construction recently received a $32.7 million dollar prime contract from the City of Villa Rica, GA for the construction of the City’s New West Water Reclamation Facility. This project involves the construction of a complete New Water Reclamation Facility to replace the City’s outdated existing West Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The new facility consists of an Influent Pump Station and Head Works, a Biological Treatment Unit, Two Secondary Clarifiers, a Tertiary Treatment Unit, an Ultraviolet Disinfection Unit, an Effluent Pump Station, a Cascade Aeration Structure, a Sludge Pumping Station, a Sludge Digestion Basin, a Plant Drain Pump Station, a Liquid Lime Storage and Feed System. Also included in this project are a Chemical/Electrical Building, a Maintenance Building, a Sludge Dewatering Building and a Control Building with offices, meeting rooms, locker rooms, plant Control rooms and laboratory facilities.

In addition to building these treatment structures and buildings, RTD will install all above and below ground process piping and all mechanical process equipment with its’ own forces. When this project is completed, RTD ‘Constructors’ will have formed and placed 14,000 CY of concrete, installed 10,000 LF of various size and types of process piping and excavated and compacted more than 100,000 CY of soil.

This project has an Estimated Completion Date of March 2011.

The City Manager of Villa Rica, Larry Wood was recently quoted in the local newspaper as saying “Now that we’re into it, I’m comfortable with RTD handling the project. The project manager out there is a real hands-on guy and I’ve been pleased with their progress. They don’t give excuses: they get results and that’s what you’ve got to have on a project like this.”

The following is a Partial listing of Recently Completed Projects:

Peace River Facility Expansion Contract Two- WTP Expansion

Subcontractor Contract Amount: $ 11,507,213.00

Owner:	Engineer:
Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority	Boyle Engineering
6311 Atrium Dr., Suite 100	5971 Cattleridge Blvd.
Bradenton, FL. 34202	Sarasota, FL. 34232

Scope:	Our portion of this project consisted of construction of a new filter building and transfer pump station, refurbishment of the existing river pump station, new chemical building and chemical feed systems, site work including all site piping, excavation, dewatering, reinforced concrete for new structures and the installation of all mechanical process equipment.
Status:	Projected Completion Dec. 2009

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Central County Water Reclamation Facility Expansion Phase Two

Prime Contractor Contract Amount: $ 11,904,795.00

Owner:	Engineer:
Sarasota County BOCC	MWH Americas, Inc.
1660 Ringling Blvd.	7591 Palmer Blvd.
Sarasota, FL. 34236	Sarasota, FL. 34240

Scope:	Construction of the Central County WRF Expansion Phase Two included modifications to the existing main lift station including a 12MGD bypass system, conversion of oxidation ditches into new Aeration Basins with diffused aeration systems, new chlorine contact tanks, new Anoxic Tanks, a new Main Electrical Building, a new Aeration Blower Building, all site work, yard piping and restoration
Status:	Projected Completion Dec. 22^nd, 2008

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Plant City Water Reclamation Facility Expansion & Improvements

Subcontractor Contract Amount: $ 11,427,672.00

Owner:	Engineer:
City of Plant City	Malcolm-Pirnie
302 W. Reynolds Street	1330 E. 18^th Avenue
Plant City, Fl. 33564	Tampa, Fl. 33605

Scope:

As Subcontractor, we were responsible for all work necessary to complete the civil construction of the Anoxic basins, three new clarifiers, a filter addition, additions to the chlorine contact chamber, RAS/WAS pump structure, Generator and Fuel Storage Tank concrete slabs, above and below ground process piping installation and the installation of all mechanical process equipment. We were also responsible for all demolition required to complete our construction work and mechanical process equipment installations.

Status:

Projected Completion Dec. 2007

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Horseshoe Beach Water Treatment Plant & Well Improvements, Horseshoe Beach, FL.

Prime Contractor Contract Amount: $ 4,360,540.00

Owner:	Engineer:
Town of Horseshoe Beach, FL.	Darabi & Associates, Inc.
P.O. Box 86	730 NE Waldo Rd. Suite A
Horseshoe Beach, Fl. 32648	Gainesville, FL. 32641

Scope:

Our work on this project consisted of raw water supply well improvements including well pumps and piping, all site work, construction of a process building to house offices, restrooms, laboratory and all of the Reverse Osmosis water treatment equipment, all above and below ground process piping, construction of a high service pump station, installation of approximately 10,000 feet of City water main and Reject water main, and all electrical and control systems.

Status:

Projected Completion April 2009

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Fruitville Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion to 2.4 MGD-Sarasota, FL

Prime Contractor Contract Amount: $ 4,737,045.00

Owner:	Engineer:
Aqua Utilities Florida, Inc.	DMK Associates
6960 Professional Pkwy. East	4315 S. Access Rd.
Sarasota, FL 34240	Englewood, FL 34224

Scope:

This project was for the Additions & Renovations to an existing Wastewater Treatment Plant. Our work included the construction of four (4) Denitrification Filters, a new chlorine contact tank, a new aeration tank, a new clarifier, two new digesters, a new lined reject water pond, a new blower facility & multiple pump stations, all above and below ground process piping, installation of all mechanical process equipment and a new electrical building.

Status:

Projected Completion March 2006

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Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion – Englewood, FL

Prime Contractor Contract Amount: $ 3,946,629.34

Owner:	Engineer:
Englewood Water District	CH2M Hill
201 Selma Ave.	3100 SW Williston Rd.
Englewood, FL 34295	Gainesville, FL 32608

Scope:

This project was for the Additions and Renovations to an existing Wastewater Treatment Plant including a new sludge dewatering building, a new plant control building. a static screen structure, a plant drain pump station utilizing a caisson / tremied concrete method, a new effluent pump station, a new disk filter, a 4 acre drainage pond, a digested sludge pump station, new sludge return pumps and all above and below ground process piping and mechanical process equipment installation.

Status:

Projected Completion July 2005

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Sunflower Trail Master Pump Station Project – Orlando, FL

Prime Contractor Contract Amount: $2,083,000.00

Owner:	Engineer:
Orange County BOCC	CPH Engineering
400 E. South St., 2nd Floor	1117 E. Robinson St.
Orlando, FL 32801	Orlando, FL

Scope:

This project was a new cast in place concrete master pumping station. Our work included installation of sheet piling, all formed and poured concrete wok, a new gravity sewer and manholes, a Motor Control Center Building, a new emergency generator and fuel system, an odor control system, all site work, all above and below grade process piping, installation of all mechanical process equipment and a masonry perimeter wall & fencing.

Status:

Projected Completed October 2005

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SRF Wastewater Transmission Main Extension - Groveland, FL

Prime Contractor Contract Amount: $ 1,308,908.00

Owner:

Engineer:

City of Groveland

156 South Lake Ave.

Mittauer & Associates

Groveland, FL 34736

Orange Park, FL

Scope: This project included 3,500 LF of 12” PVC Water main, 18,000 LF of 12” PVC/HDPE Force main, all restoration of disturbed areas and a New lift station. Both Directional Drilling and the Jack & Bore method were employed to complete this project.

Status:
Project completed October 2004

Biosolids Treatment Implementation Digester Refurbishment - Clearwater, FL

Prime ContraPrime Contractor Contract Amount: $ 5,016,130.00

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Engineer:

City of Clearwater

Parsons

P.O. Box 4748

3450 Buschwood Park Dr. Suite 345

Clearwater, FL 33758-4748

Tampa, FL 33618

Scope: We completed Additions and Renovations to existing Wastewater Treatment Plants at two Sites. Our contract included construction of new sludge boiler rooms, new mixing pump buildings, and the complete refurbishment of two 90’ diameter floating steel digester covers. In addition to this we furnished and installed new sludge digester gas equipment, new sludge recirculation pumps with grinders, new boilers complete with hot water circulation systems and all other above and below ground process piping.

Status:
Projected Completion April 2006

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Arbennie Pritchett Water Reclamation Facility - Mechanical & Civil Project

Subcontractor Contract Amount: $ 4,843,250.00

Owner:	Engineer:
Okaloosa County BOCC	CDM Constructors, Inc.
302 N. Wilson St.	2301 Maitland Center Pkwy Suite 300
Crestview, Fl. 32536	Maitland, Fl. 32751

Scope:

Our portion of this project was for the complete construction of all cast in place concrete structures, foundations and walkways for this entire project. The new structures included a headwork’s facility, a RAS/WAS sludge pump station with a flow splitter structure, a UV disinfection structure with an integral effluent pump station, a new sludge centrifuge structure and loading facility, installation of two new generators, a complete blower facility, a septage receiving system, a Bio-filter odor control system, all above and below ground process piping, new chemical feed systems and all associated chemical feed piping, and the installation of all owner purchased mechanical process equipment including sluice and slide gates, two mechanical bar screens, two grit classifiers, two vortex grit removal systems, grit removal pumps, vertical turbine effluent and horizontal split case sludge pumps, two 100 foot clarifiers, five blowers and associated controls, a rotary drum thickener, a sludge centrifuge, Ultra-violet disinfection equipment and controls, generators, rotary drum thickener, eight mixers, six aerators and all air diffusion systems.

Status:

Projected Completion July 2009

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