
Headworks and Primary Treatment
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Status: Substantially complete
Schedule: Substantial completion reached in Summer 2024. Final completion expected Summer 2025.
Construction Cost: $102M
Project Goal: To remove solid materials from influent wastewater and reduce diesel emissions and odor.
Project/Construction information: The Headworks and Primary Treatment Facility includes the construction of the new headworks and the primary treatment facilities, including a new switchgear building and standby generator, ancillary facilities and lighting at the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant (Plant). Package 2 construction also includes the construction of the first phase of a flood wall that will ultimately surround and protect the Plant from future flood events along with habitat mitigation to the north of the Plant.
All ten structures have been constructed, and major equipment systems have been installed, tested, and started up. Emergency power failure programming is ongoing.