Other than the air we breathe, no resource is more vital to our lives than water. 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. The coming Northwest Water Facility is intended to meet the needs of all.
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 state-of-the-art, fully redundant treatment facility will deliver up to 120 million gallons per day, a capacity anticipated to serve generations to come. The facility will take a projected 1.6 million trade man-hours to build and, having passed the two-year mark of construction is expected to arrive ahead of schedule and under budget. Built to last, its scope is truly impressive: a main building as big as several football fields, clarifiers among the country’s largest, pipes up to 96” across. Read about how the project is coming along in annual reports from 2021, 2022 and 2023.
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From renderings and City Council approval in 2019, site work and construction began in 2020 and continue to this day.
The City of Wichita retained Garver – a nationally respected engineering firm with a local office in the city – as a 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.