RIVERSIDE – (INT) – City officials are celebrating the completion of the largest public works project in the city’s history. It’s a hi-tech renovation of the wastewater treatment plant.

The $192 million project took nearly five years and includes the installation of a cutting-edge membrane bioreactor treatment system that leaves wastewater 10 times cleaner than with the previous method.

Riverside now can process 46 million gallons of wastewater per day – up from 40 million gallons per day. The city is prepared to continue treating wastewater from the Highgrove community, as well as the Edgemont, Rubidoux, and Jurupa community service districts.

The membrane reactor system, located at 5950 Acorn Street, is the third-largest of the more than 100 such systems in the U.S.

Story Date: December 19, 2017