Huge freaking water treatment plant being built on Lake Houston ! (Austin: 2014, utilities)

[Jack Lance]

Subsidence problems were documented, and experts came to recognize the supply could not keep pace with demand.


Now, after decades of public meetings and engineering consultations, environmental-impact studies and design proposals, a solution is in the works on a massive scale: a $3 billion, three-part chain of infrastructure projects to carry water more than 40 miles westward from the Trinity River and provide a lifeline to the northern region and burgeoning suburbs from Spring to Tomball to Katy.


http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Oli...e/Default.aspx


From the City of Houston website we see a rendering of the project,





https://www.publicworks.houstontx.gov/pud/newpp.html

[Leaving Houston4Austin]

Mehh. Not as ambitious as the current Nicaragua Canal being built in Central America

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by Leaving Houston4Austin

Mehh. Not as ambitious as the current Nicaragua Canal being built in Central America

The Nicaraguan Canal is a shipping canal that will compete with the Panama Canal. This is a municipal water project and is believed to be the largest such project in the Country, and perhaps the world, at this time.


Your comparison is ridicules and perplexing...

[westhou]

This is great! The North and West sides of the county are growing rapidly and any projects that bring more resources to those areas is fantastic.

[DavePa]

The New Houston project consists of two design-build phases to expand the plant’s capacity from 80 million gallons per day (MGD) to 400 MGD by 2024.

Chicago Jardine Filtration plant downtown Chicago on Lake Michigan built in 1968.

https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/water.html

World’s Largest Water Treatment Plant Optimizes Procedures Based on ALGOR Fluid Flow Results

Filtering nearly 1 billion gallons of fresh pure water to the residents of Chicago and 125 suburban communities every day.

The James W. Jardine Plant in Chicago is the largest water treatment plant in the world. • Chicagoans use nearly 1 billion gallons of water a day – enough to fill the Willis (Sears) Tower two and half times.
• Lake Michigan is the source of Chicago’s water supply.
• The plant treats one million gallons of water a minute.
• The plant serves 5.5 million people in Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
• The plant has 96 swimming pool-size filters to treat water
• Eight hours after entering the plant, water is ready to drink.

2014 stats

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[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by DavePa

The New Houston project consists of two design-build phases to expand the plant’s capacity from 80 million gallons per day (MGD) to 400 MGD by 2024.

Chicago Jardine Filtration plant downtown Chicago on Lake Michigan built in 1968.

https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/water.html

World’s Largest Water Treatment Plant Optimizes Procedures Based on ALGOR Fluid Flow Results

Filtering nearly 1 billion gallons of fresh pure water to the residents of Chicago and 125 suburban communities every day.

The James W. Jardine Plant in Chicago is the largest water treatment plant in the world. • Chicagoans use nearly 1 billion gallons of water a day – enough to fill the Willis (Sears) Tower two and half times.
• Lake Michigan is the source of Chicago’s water supply.
• The plant treats one million gallons of water a minute.
• The plant serves 5.5 million people in Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
• The plant has 96 swimming pool-size filters to treat water
• Eight hours after entering the plant, water is ready to drink.

2014 stats

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The Chronicle article stated that the Lake Houston project was the largest in the Country being built "at this time", not that it was the largest municipal water project ever built.

[PedroMartinez]

Without capacity, we will still have water issues during droughts.

Lake Houston has lost close to half its capacity since being built due to silting.

When we had that last big drought, and you could almost walk across parts of the lake, it would have been the perfect opportunity to dredge; unfortunately, our city officials were idiots and didn't do it. Kicking the can was their answer.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Without capacity, we will still have water issues during droughts.

Lake Houston has lost close to half its capacity since being built due to silting.

When we had that last big drought, and you could almost walk across parts of the lake, it would have been the perfect opportunity to dredge; unfortunately, our city officials were idiots and didn't do it. Kicking the can was their answer.

Now that they are building this water filtration plant they will probably be doing that (dredging) to protect this plant if nothing else.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

Now that they are building this water filtration plant they will probably be doing that (dredging) to protect this plant if nothing else.

If they dredge it, continue closing sand pits and get the Luce Bayou project complete, along with the stirrers they have running, Lake Houston will start looking more consistently pretty.

I've noticed that there are much less chocolate milk days over the last ten years.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Without capacity, we will still have water issues during droughts.

Lake Houston has lost close to half its capacity since being built due to silting.

When we had that last big drought, and you could almost walk across parts of the lake, it would have been the perfect opportunity to dredge; unfortunately, our city officials were idiots and didn't do it. Kicking the can was their answer.

Its been a while, but I remember the Spring and Klein areas having a deadline about this time to get off groundwater. I had wondered how they would do it without annexation. That's probably what this plant is about. To stop the subsidence.