Owner: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Value of Construction: $10,437,000
Estimated Completion Date: July 2011The F.E. Weymouth Treatment Plant in La Verne located in the San Gabriel Valley is one of five such filtration plants within the Metropolitan Water District system. Weymouth was the first filtration plant built by Metropolitan in 1940, and today largely serves Los Angeles and Orange counties. Most of the water filtered through this plant originates in the mountain ranges in seven western stated, travels down the Colorado River and flows through Metropolitan’s 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct. To a lesser degree, water supplied to the plant also comes from Northern California rivers and streams that feed the State Water Project’s 444-mile California Aqueduct. The project consists of retrofitting the existing alum/ferric storage and feed facilities, installation of a new roof canopy over the existing coagulant tank farm, construction of modifications to the alum/ferric tank farm, installation of new polymer tank farm, demolition, and removal of the existing storage building, carbon tank facility, and mechanical maintenance shop (Building No. 6), an underground storage tank, and other appurtenant work. The project is being constructed in 3 phases (Phase A, B, C). Phases will be completed in sequence after the acceptance of the prior phase.
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