RJN Group Inc. designs Collinsville's $16M wastewater treatment plant

WHEATON, IL, Feb. 16, 2006 -- On Feb. 13, the city of Collinsville, IL, awarded RJN Group Inc. a contract to design the expansion of their wastewater treatment plant. The expansion is to increase the average daily flow to 8 million gallons per day (mgd) from the current 4.4 mgd and is estimated to cost $16 million. The expansion plan includes a phased-construction approach to meet specific short-term treatment needs due to the rapid growth of Collinsville. The expansion also includes the rehabilitation or replacement of most major process units in the existing plant including clarifier drives, aeration blowers and subsurface aeration equipment, all pumping equipment, and electrical equipment including the standby generator.

New unit processes to be added include ultraviolet light disinfection, sludge thickening, and nutrient removal through chemical precipitation. The existing 30 year-old control system will be replaced with a new supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) control system, and the backbone infrastructure for a citywide SCADA system will be included in the design.

Collinsville has also decided to include the RJN CASS WORKS^® maintenance management suite of applications for the new wastewater treatment plant and plans to include the assets from the wastewater collection system, the potable water plant, and water distribution system under the CASS WORKS umbrella. The project will begin in February 2006 with design scheduled for completion in early 2007. Start-up is anticipated in 2009.

RJN (www.rjn.com) has been a leader in providing engineering services and information technology software to municipal, county, state, and federal clients for the past 31 years. The firm's headquarters are in Wheaton, Illinois with offices in Chicago and Collinsville, IL; St. Louis; Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, TX; Fayetteville, AR; Tulsa, OK; Vienna, VA; Boston; Baltimore; Miami and Deerfield Beach, FL; and Atlanta.

RJN provides public works engineering and information technology services for the development, maintenance, and management of municipal infrastructure systems including sewer, water, drainage, roads, and bridges. Projects include engineering studies, preliminary and detailed design, construction engineering, and maintenance management. The firm provides the CASS WORKS family of software products for tracking of asset inventories, maintenance activity, physical inspection and histories, and related management systems.

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