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The electrical upgrades on this project have been staff continue to keep it operational.’ The project
designed and set up in such a way to establish will essentially touch all processes in the Water

two fully redundant process trains, meaning it Treatment Plant and ensuring that the work gets
essentially allows for easier shutdowns and allows completed without disrupting anything is key,” says

the Water Treatment Plant to continue to produce Tuchscherer.

a safe reliable source of drinking water at the same
time as performing maintenance to equipment that When working with a facility that has sections

would otherwise not be maintainable without a full that are over 100 years old, there have been
Water Treatment Plant shutdown. other challenges too. Tuchscherer says the most

significant one has been the discovery that existing

Keeping the Water Treatment Plant operational subgrade and infrastructure were not in conditions
throughout the project, especially during the initially expected. “The key to overcoming these

commissioning phases will be particularly challenges has been through strong collaboration

challenging. “As one of my coworkers stated, and working together as a team. The contractors,
‘This project will be like doing brain surgery on the consultant, and the City’s internal team have all

Water Treatment Plan while the City operations played an integral role in figuring out solutions

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