Pentair Partnered With One Illinois County And An Engineering Design Firm To Build A Cutting-Edge Wastewater Treatment Plant

If you lived in the city of Springfield, Illinois at the early part of the last century, you would have been subjected to the unpleasant experience of finding raw sewage in the creeks and rivers – and dealing with frequent disease outbreaks from contaminated water. That all changed when the Sangamon County Water Reclamation District (SCWRD) was organized under the Illinois Sanitary District Act of 1917. The situation further improved in 1929 when the county opened the Spring Creek plant which collected and treated sewage – keeping bacteria out of the rivers and people’s drinking water.

Although the system worked well for many decades, in 2007, it was clear that the nearly 90-year old, manually operated Spring Creek wastewater treatment plant was no longer meeting the needs of the community. Rather than just overhaul the existing system, SCWRD decided to commission an entirely new, $120 million dollar, fully-automated treatment plant.