Construction is not what we do…it's who we are.

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA BUREAU • UPDATED SEP 16, 2015

WISE — Three years and $15 million in the making, the Coeburn-Norton-Wise (C-N-W) Regional Wastewater Treatment Authority’s freshly overhauled and enlarged treatment plant is open to public inspection during an Open House starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Snugged along the Guest River at the base of High Knob in Wise County, the award winning plant has provided comprehensive sewage treatment services since 1991 to the three municipalities and other areas of Wise County.

Once finalized, the permitted discharge capacity of the renovated and expanded facility will be 6.5 million gallons per day (mgd) instead of the original 1991 design capacity of 4 mgd.

“This has been an extremely challenging, very complex project that installed state of the art equipment into an existing facility,” said C-N-W Executive Director Mark S. Hollyfield.

“Our skilled and motivated staff has performed in an exemplary manner to continue treating sewage 24 hours a day, seven days per week as every section of the plant was systematically removed from service for renovation, and new facilities were under construction in our very constricted site.”

Hollyfield said the project, carrying a total pricetag of $14,961,045, is the first major overhaul of the facility since entering service in 1991.

“The primary goals for this major investment are to prepare the C-N-W Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant to comply with strict environmental standards and to provide wastewater treatment capacity for economic development,” he said.

Even during construction, installation of ‘Webitat’ equipment was lauded with an “Innovative Technology Award” at the 2014 international conference of the Water Environment Federation in New Orleans.

Entex Technologies Inc. of Chapel Hill, N.C. supplied the ‘Webitat’ retrofit equipment to improve biochemical oxygen demand removal and nitrification. In real English, that means a better way to remove waste and discharge clean water.

The Virginia State Water Control Board authorized two loans for the project administered by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia Resources Authority. English Construction Co. Inc. of Lynchburg is the general contractor.

The project’s engineering, design, construction management and inspection services were provided by The Lane Group Inc., with offices in Abingdon, Big Stone Gap and Galax, in conjunction with the Wise headquartered engineering and architectural firm, Thompson & Litton.

 

A recent aerial photo of the C-N-W Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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