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2021 IEC NATIONAL AWARDS EXCELLENCE IN CONSTRUCTION AWARDS – INDUSTRIAL

INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION CATEGORY B
WEIFIELD GROUP

CONTRACTING

IEC Rocky Mountain

ECCV Northern Water Supply Phase 2

Industrial Construction recognizes excellence in electrical largest in the U.S. and unique to the nation in that it has the
or systems construction including manufacturing, utilities, highest water recovery rate, at 94%.
processing, transportation, warehouses, etc.
ECCV needed to expand its RO plant as the municipality grew,
The 2021 nominees: InPwr for NIST, Olsson Industrial Electric so in February 2019, Weifield began our ECCV Northern Water
for Shell New Energy and Weifield Group Contracting for ECCV Supply Phase 2 project with Garney Construction (General
Northern Water Supply Phase 2. Contractor) to increase ECCV’s water distribution capacity from
10 to 20 million gallons/day (MGD), in total.
High quality water supplies are increasingly under stress
across the United States, forcing municipal utilities to seek Once treated, the water transports 32 miles from the RO Plant to
more sustainable and reliable water supply solutions. The East the ECCV distribution facility. Weifield’s team was under pressure
Cherry Creek Valley (ECCV) Water and Sanitation District of to have the plant up and running in conjunction with our ECCV
Aurora, Colorado encountered this situation when its drinkable North & South Booster Pump Stations project – being built
groundwater supplies began to decline in the early 2000s. To help simultaneously – as the water the RO plant sheds is the water
solve the issue, ECCV then developed a state-of-the-art four-stage used by the pump stations.
reverse osmosis (RO) system that produces drinkable water at an
extremely high recovery rate from a brackish water source – and The newly-expanded RO facility officially went into operation in
after the water is treated, disposes the extracted brine 10,000 feet December 2020 – with final testing completed in May 2021.
below ground, into an EPA Class well. This RO plant is the second

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