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Columbia Heights Membrane Filtration Plant Retrofitting
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Columbia Heights, MN
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Manufacturing Plant
References
- Architect:
- Black & Veatch
- Client:
- City of Minneapolis
Scope Of Work
This project involves retrofitting the Minneapolis Water Works Columbia Heights Filtration Plant, which has been in operation for nearly 90 years. The facility will produce a maximum of 70 million gallons per day. It will improve filtration well beyond regulatory requirements consistently yield low turbidity filtered water high log removal of microbial contaminants such as viruses. At the time of construction, this plant was the largest ultrafiltration treatment plant in the United States among the largest membrane filtration plants in the world.