East Headworks at the Woods Run Wastewater Treatment Plant

under planning

Allegheny County Sanitary Authority is planning to construct a new East Headworks at the Woods Run Wastewater Treatment Plant in Pittsburgh, which will increase its peak wet weather capacity to 600 million gallons per day. The East Headworks will serve the plant during normal dry weather conditions, and the West Headworks will be brought online only after plant influent flow reaches approximately 360 million gallons per day. The East Headworks will receive flow from the main pumping station and the wet weather pumping station via an influent conduit routed parallel to the existing east-west plant road located between the West Headworks and the Headworks odor control facility. A new flow chamber will be constructed to receive flow from the existing pump station as well as the future wet weather pump station. It is being designed by Whitman Requardt & Associates.