Great Lakes Water Authority
The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) awarded a contract to design, build and operate a biosolids processing facility to augment the processing capacity of GLWA’s wastewater treatment plant. The facility features technologically advanced air-pollution, noise and odor-control systems to ensure it is a good neighbor to the community.
Benefits from this contract include significant cost savings over the previous biosolids management practice, capital cost savings by providing dewatering at a significant cost reduction versus a centrifuge capital project that had been planned, more efficient staffing and a facility that greatly reduces impacts to the local community.
The Detroit facility is currently the largest biosolids processing facility in North America. In March 2017, this facility was awarded a 2017 Gold Award by the American Council of Engineering Companies honoring outstanding professional design excellence. It was also one of five finalists for the Grand Conceptor Award.
Facility Information
Great Lakes Water Authority
TECHNOLOGY
Drying
LOCATION
9125 West Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, MI 48209
COUNTY
Wayne
BY THE NUMBERS
2023 acquisition (NEFCO)
2015 operations commencement
316 dry tons per day design capacity
SERVING
Auburn Hills, Berkley, Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Canton Township, Chesterfield Township, Clarkston Village, Clawson, Clinton Township, Dearborn Heights, Eastpointe, Farmington, Farmington Hills, Ferndale, Franklin Village, Fraser, Garden City, Grosse Pointe Shores, Grosse Pointe Woods, Harper Woods, Harrison Township, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods, Independence Township, Inkster, Keego Harbor, Lake Angelus, Lake Orion Village, Lathrup Village, Lenox Township, Livonia, Macomb Township, Madison Heights, New Haven, Northville, Northville Township, Novi, Oak Park, Oakland Charter Township, Orchard Lake Village, Orion Township, Oxford Township, Oxford Village, Pleasant Ridge, Plymouth, Plymouth Township, Redford, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Romulus, Roseville, Royal Oak, Royal Oak Township, Shelby Township, Southfield, St. Clair Shores, Sterling Heights, Troy, Utica, Van Buren Township, Washington Township, Waterford Township, Wayne, West Bloomfield Township and Westland