The Indiana-American Water Company consists of seventeen separate water supply
systems serving 18 communities in the State of Indiana, with some of the largest
being Kokomo, Muncie, Richmond, Terre Haute, Jeffersonville and Greenwood. The
total state-wide customer base includes approximately 170,000 households. During
1993, the Indiana-American Water Company acquired the resources of the Indiana
Cities Water Corporation. As a result of this acquisition, new water supplies
began to be developed to insure that reliable water service would be available to
the systems in Indiana. Due to rapid growth and increasing water demands in
several former Indiana Cities systems, it was deemed necessary to utilize a
fast-track, design/build method for the simultaneous construction of three water
treatment plants in Johnson, Montgomery and Hamilton Counties as part of the
Central Indiana Systems Improvement Project. This design/build facility delivery
method proved essential in quickly and economically increasing the system
capacities of those communities where the existing systems were at, or near,
their rated design capacities. Due to the uniformity in much of central Indiana's
groundwater supplies, the three groundwater treatment plants are very similar in
design. The plants are 3.0 to 6.0 million gallons per day capacity, iron and
manganese removal plants, outfitted with induced draft aerators, chemical
oxidation systems, pressure filters, distributive pumps, chlorine disinfection
and fluoridation systems. The Hamilton and Montgomery County plants have
emergency generators; and the Montgomery County facility also houses
administrative offices and a distribution vehicle garage. All of the plants have
the latest instrumentation, control and telemetry technologies, which allow them
to function by either on-site or remote computer interfaces. Using an innovative
fast-track, design/build delivery process termed "owner-guided design/build,"
these projects were successfully designed, permitted and constructed in a
16-month period from March 1996 to June 1997. A number of highly effective
project management, contracting and partnering techniques were used to accomplish
these results, and are described in this paper from the owner's, designer's and
builder's perspectives. Includes figures.
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| Published : | 01/01/1999 |
