Cookeville Water Quality Control Department has received bids for work expanding its water treatment plant.
Director Designee Barry Turner said that the low bid came in at around $25.4 million.
“It will be a 50 percent addition to the capacity down there,” Turner said. “So we’re going from 15 (millions of gallons per day) to about 22.5 mgd of capacity. We’re also going to be rehabbing some things down there, like the carbon feed that we have for taste and odor control.”
Turner said that once the plant starts to hit around 80 percent capacity, the state wants departments to explore expansion. He said that because a majority of the county relies on Cookeville for wastewater treatment, this project has been in the works for some time.
Turner said that the next steps will be to present the low bid to the Cookeville City Council for approval next week.
