Zimmerman WWTF Upgrade & Expansion

Nero completed a facility plan along with an antidegradation alternatives analysis and an environmental assessment worksheet for the Zimmerman WWTF Upgrade & Expansion project. The existing treatment facility had approached the flow capacity that would typically initiate planning for the future. The facility plan included a plant-wide condition assessment of the existing equipment, an evaluation of treatment process alternatives, cost estimates for feasible alternatives, estimated operation and maintenance costs for feasible alternatives, and the selection of the recommended alternative for the upgrade and expansion.

The planning process conducted by the City and Nero identified a shorter-term need for additional solids handling capacity. The project team decided to move the project into two phases, with the first phase addressing the solids handling process and capacity.