Wharton-Smith provided Design-Bid-Build services for two projects at the existing First Broad River Wastewater Treatment Plant for the City of Shelby, North Carolina.

The biosolids project consisted of constructing an all-new anaerobic digestion system with dewatering to replace the City of Shelby’s existing biosolids handling system. This new system contained anaerobic digesters with mixing, scrubbers, boilers, heat exchangers, a digester control building with a laboratory, a sludge holding tank, a dewatering building with two belt filter presses and associated polymer feed equipment, a filtrate pump station, non-potable water pump station, filtrate equalization tanks, building waste gas flare, dewatering sludge storage building with a pad and miscellaneous site work.

The influent improvements project included new headworks with rotary drum screens and grit equipment, 850 LF of force main, a new primary clarifier splitter box, and upgrades to the existing influent pump station.

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Project Details

LOCATION

Shelby NC

CLIENT

City of Shelby, NC

SIZE

21 MGD

CONSTRUCTION COST

$5,709,125