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Shoreview, Minnesota
WATER TREATMENT PLANT

Concerns Lead to New WTP aging infrastructure spurred the City to greensand filtration and alternative
The City of Shoreview provides enlist AE2S to design and construct a oxidation processes.
an average of approximately 3 MGD of water treatment plant (WTP).
potable water to its 26,000 local residents, Solution Meets Treatment Financial
as well as to customers within the Cities Treatment Objectives Drive Objectives
of North Oaks, Arden Hills, and Vadnais Technology Selection Ultimately, aeration, with gravity
Heights. The City experienced significant The treatment objectives established filtration, gas chlorine, and traditional
growth in the 1970s and 1980s, but for the new WTP included ammonia backwash reclamation basins were selected
focus has shifted from new development removal, iron and manganese removal, as the alternative that best met the City’s
to infill and redevelopment. The City hydrogen sulfide removal, radon needs, both in terms of accomplishing
currently operates a water supply system removal, fluoridation, disinfection and treatment objectives and financial
that consists of six wells, raw water maintaining a protective disinfectant considerations.
transmission piping, a storage reservoir, residual in the distribution system, and Final design and bidding were
chemical feed systems, and a booster disinfectant by-product control. Several completed in May 2015. Construction
pump station (but no treatment/filtration alternative technologies were evaluated began in June 2015 and the WTP is
facility). The existing water system has to accomplish these treatment objectives anticipated to be operational in the fall of
served the City well for decades, but for the proposed water treatment facility. 2016.
increasing color-related concerns and Analysis included a pilot study evaluating

DATE
2014
PROJECT COSTS CLIENT
$11,941,200 City of Shoreview
CLIENT CONTACT
Tom Wesolowski
City Engineer
651-490-4652

KEY PROJECT ELEMENTS
• Existing Reservoir and Booster Station
• Existing Ground Water Supply
• Blended Groundwater Sources
• Iron, Manganese, and Radon Removal
• Modifications to Existing Clearwell
• Filter Technology Evaluation

AE2S BURNSVILLE TECHNICAL SPECIALTY CONSULTANT ENGINEERING SERVICES SOQ 3.12