The Locust Shade Water Storage Tank will be a 1.6 million-gallon ground-level tank. It will be located on the Marine Corps Heritage Center site. The tank will provide operational and emergency water storage for the Triangle and Quantico National Cemetery area.

Steelwork and painting are complete. The access road is being cut to grade to so that the water line to the tank can be completed. The tank is expected to be in operation in late February 2006, with final grading, landscaping, and fencing to follow shortly.

The Quantico National Cemetery Booster Station is being built to pump water to the National Cemetery, which is too high to be served by the tanks in the Dumfries-Triangle Service Level. Its primary purpose is to provide potable and irrigation water to the Cemetery. It will also benefit county residents along the route (Forestburg Lane and Joplin Road) by making potable water available and providing fire protection.

Mechanical work is complete. Station controls to be installed in February. Final completion anticipated in early spring.

Picture shows the station.

In the fall of 2002 the Service Authority Administration conducted an evaluation of the Service Authority’s current and future requirements for office space in the Spittle Building. This evaluation determined that in order to meet the current space requirements major renovations of the Spittle Building would be required, and the most economical course would be to proceed with construction of an addition to the building and renovation of the existing office area. The addition and renovations would be designed to meet both current and future needs. The original design of the Spittle Building and property purchased by the Service Authority anticipated a future addition.

The project consists of a new 19,000 square foot two-story addition to the north of the existing building including, a new board room, offices, two kitchens, lunch room, and wellness center, a 1,000 square foot addition to customer service, renovation of 10,000 square feet of existing offices, a new roof, and additional parking. It is designed to accommodate the needs of the Service Authority to the year 2023.

The addition is complete. The contractor is working on the punch list for renovations of the existing building. The picture (above) shows the addition from the east side.

The project consists of the construction of a new 2 million-gallon hydropillar water storage tank to replace an existing water tank. The new tank column will house a water booster station. The tank site is adjacent to Prince William Forest Park.

Steel work is nearing completion. Picture shows the top row of the vertical shell in place. A domed roof will be installed on top of that. Painting will begin in spring 2006. Tank completion anticipated in October 2006.

Construction by CB&I Constructors, Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia.

In order to accommodate the significant growth in Prince William County as well as improve water pressure and quality, the Prince William County Service Authority has constructed water storage tanks to replace obsolete tanks currently in place. As a result, the PWCSA has recently undertaken three tank demolition projects, of which two tanks have been demolished. The remaining tank (Nob Hill tank), pictured here, will be demolished after the Locust Shade Tank is put in service. The Nob Hill tank is one of the oldest tanks in the Authority’s system [built in the 1950’s] and one of the smallest, with a usable volume of just 77,000 gallons. The replacement tank has a usable volume of 1,000,000 gallons.

Construction by All Industrial Services, Inc. of Youngstown, Ohio.

The project consists of the construction of a new sewage lift station to replace an existing station at the same site. The existing lift station was built in the 1950's and has a pumping capacity of approximately 1,000,000 gallons per day. This project will meet the growing needs of the area including the new Marine Corps Heritage Center Museum. The new station will have a pumping capacity of approximately 2,488,000 gallons per day, expected to meet the system needs until 2025.

The new station will have three pumps for redundancy as well as controls that will monitor station conditions. The new station will have a brick facade. Site improvements will be included in the work as well as the demolition of the old station.

Below grade construction of the wet well and pump room [dry pit] floors and walls are nearly complete. Picture shows steel sheeting that lines the excavation to prevent cave-ins and wall forms for the pump room.

Construction by Pizzagalli Construction Company of South Burlington, Vermont.

The Bethlehem Road tank is undergoing its first repainting since being built in 1986. The original paint job had lasted longer than expected (usually about 12-15 years for paints of the time), but needed to be replaced. The paint had also been damaged during installation of the many antennas on the tank.

The entire tank has been sand blasted to clean steel and primed. The exterior has also received the intermediate coat and some of the final coat. Painting activity has been stopped for the winter and will resume in April, when the final coats will be applied inside and out. Antennas will be reinstalled after painting is complete.

Pictures show the tank before repainting and in current condition. The attachments at the top of the tank are containment outriggers (temporary) for raising a fabric curtain when painting the exterior. Temporary antenna masts are visible around the tank.

Construction by Corfu Contractors, Inc. of Vienna, Virginia.

The Fuller Heights Road Force Main is about 4,750 feet of 12-inch sanitary sewer force main. It will replace the existing Lift Station “B” discharge force main to provide for the additional capacity needed for the new Fuller Heights Pump Station “B”, now under construction. Approximately 90 percent of the pipeline has been constructed.

Picture shows force main installed under other utility lines.

The Marsteller – Skylark Drive sewer system is approximately 5,000 feet of small diameter pressure sewer. The project is in Nokesville and will provide public sewer to existing homes in an area with several failed septic drain fields and soils not well suited for drain fields.

About 2,000 feet of sewer has been installed and work is progressing quickly. Picture shows installing 2-inch diameter sewer main on Skylark Drive.

Construction by Finley Asphalt & Sealing, Inc. of Manassas Park, Virginia.

This project will replace the existing Linton Hall Lift Station with a new and larger capacity station. The existing station has a capacity of 8.4 million gallons per day (MGD). It is anticipated that the capacity of the existing station will be exceeded in the year 2007. The new sewage pumping station will have a capacity of 28 MGD. It will provide capacity for development in the area according to the County Comprehensive Plan. The new pumping station will be built adjacent to the existing station, after which the old station will be demolished.

The contractor is preparing the site for construction and moving construction trailers in.

Construction by Pizzagalli Construction Company of South Burlington, Vermont.

The H. L. Mooney Water Reclamation Facility was built in 1979. It has the capacity to treat 18 million gallons of wastewater per day.

Construction is under way at the plant to upgrade the level of treatment for an improved Chesapeake Bay. The construction program will be completed by the year 2006 at a cost of approximately $41 million. The major components of the upgrade program include:

• Modifications of all aeration basins to allow nitrogen removal by biological processes (nitrification and denitrification).
• New deep bed gravity filters for polishing (high efficiency filtering) of effluent and nitrogen removal
• A new operations support facility for offices, a training center, and complete maintenance capabilities
• New pretreatment facilities for grit removal and odor control
• Additional aeration and clarification tanks to compensate for additional requirements of nitrogen removal.
• A new ultra-violet light disinfection system prior to discharge of treated and filtered water to Neabsco Creek.

Preliminary engineering is also under way to expand the Plant’s capacity to 24 MGD and to provide a still higher level of Nitrogen removal to satisfy new regulations and the Chesapeake Bay Program.