Headworks® Completes One Of The Largest Screening Projects In North America

The George W. Kuhn Drainage District (formerly the Twelve Towns Drainage District) serves all or part of 14 communities, encompassing a drainage area of 24,500 acres upstream of the Red Run Drain, a tributary of the Clinton River. During dry weather, all flow is routed to the Detroit Wastewater Treatment Plant, but during heavy rainfall, heavy volumes of combined sewage (typically more than 93 percent storm water) exceed the outlet capacity to Detroit, causing excess flow to be diverted to the George W. Kuhn Retention Treatment Basin where it is stored, screened and disinfected prior to discharge to the Red Run Drain.

The original facility was built in 1972, but unfortunately, by the early 1990s, the facility could no longer meet more stringent environmental regulations. Planning for an expansion began in the late 1990s, and construction was completed in 2006.

Headworks Inc. was of one of the exclusive suppliers for the George W. Kuhn Retention Treatment Basin (GWK RTB) located in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in Michigan. Headworks supplied all 22 of the screens for one of the largest screening contracts ever awarded in the wastewater industry. Project manager Greg Baranski for Centerline Piping, Inc., which handled the plumbing and mechanical subcontract for the GWK RTB project stated, “Everything about this project is big, and the resulting impact on the environment is equally big. Naturally, for such a ‘big’ project the screens would have to come from a Texas company.”