Saginaw Township WWTP Improvements

Projected sanitary flows from expansions at Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation and continued residential and commercial growth in both Saginaw and Thomas Township prompted the need to expand the Saginaw Charter Township Wastewater Treatment Plant, which receives and treats sanitary waste from both Saginaw and Thomas Townships.

The plant had a design capacity to treat 4.8 million gallons per day during average dry weather, and a peak of 14.6 million gallons per day during extreme wet weather events. Improvements increased that capacity to 6.5 million gallons per day during average daily dry weather flows and 19.5 million gallons per day during peak wet weather events.

Those improvements included the construction of three new primary clarifiers – two that are 66-feet in diameter and one that is 120-feet in diameter. A chlorine contact chamber, a new administration building, chemical building and sampling structures were also constructed.

Spicer Group was responsible for the original expansion study, site surveying, design and construction administration for the project.