Submitted by Peter Narsavage on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 2:36pm
Alliance Water Treatment Plant, 1995
Owner: City of Alliance
Location: Alliance, Stark County
Nominated by: Said W. Abou Abdallah, Findbeiner, Pettis & Strout, Inc.
Description: The new 10 MGD Alliance Water Treatment Plant, built on a 300 acre city owned site, replaces a circa 1913 plant that was failing structurally and had difficulty meeting water quality standards. A goal in the design of the new plant was to allow maximum operating flexibility, reduce costs, and provide aesthetically pleasing facilities. The new plant uses proven technology in an unconventional manner. Filters are arranged to reduce the interconnecting piping, and reactor basins and clarifiers are arranged to operate in either series or parallel to adapt to seasonal variations in raw water quality. Considerable flexibility was designed into the chemical feed and hydraulic paths. Major components of the original distribution system were reused to reduce costs. The architectural treatment of the operations buildings and major plant components met the goal of providing an aesthetically pleasing facility.
