CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Allison Wastewater Treatment Plant serves a large portion of the city's Northwest side. It currently has an average daily flow capacity of five million gallons per day. That's a three million gallon jump from when the facility first opened in 1965.
Corpus Christi Water's Interim Director of Water Services, Nicholas Winkelmann told 3NEWS that this new operation and control center will allow workers at the plant to serve the community more efficiently .
"We've got a plan for all the wastewater treatment plants, and that's an ongoing plan that's been developed over the last couple of years," Winkelmann said. "This is just a very small part of that plan."
Work on the new operation and control center comes after Corpus Christi City Council approved authorization of the design contract for the plant.
"This new control center will be a new building which will house a laboratory and a SCADA control center so that we can better monitor the processes of the wastewater treatment plant," he said.
The new operation and control center will allow better ways to identify equipment failures and mitigate system upsets.
Winkelmann said this addition is just one of a few projects in the works to improve the Allison Wastewater Facility.
"We're just completing another upgrade project for the lift station associated with the treatment plant, and we're upgrading some of our processes and that project is nearing completion right now," Winkelmann added.
The $2 million project will give the Allison complex a 4,600-square foot facility that will include an emergency shelter area. Assistant City Manager Heather Hurlbert said these upgrades to city facilities are essential to creating a reliable public works system.
"Part of our job as a city is to make sure that we're providing good public works," Hurlbert said. “Having good, dependable utilities that meet all of the requirements and operate efficiently is extremely important for the growth of our city along with serving the residents that are already here."
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