STV Delivers Industrial Water Infrastructure at Amtrak’s Ivy City Yard
Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
Water Quality Control Station
STV
WASHINGTON, D.C. - STV delivers upgraded water infrastructure to Amtrak's Ivy City Yard in Washington, D.C.
STV says its water team designed the upgrades to Ivy City Yard’s Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (IWTP). The IWTP is a system that supports maintenance activities at the yard daily. By doing so, it effectively increases capacity and enhances operations at one of Amtrak’s busiest rail yards, STV reports. STV serves as lead designer for the yard’s larger modernization efforts as part of the Clark-Herzog design-build team. Improvements to maintenance facilities, track, utilities, and systems are part of these larger efforts.
STV water/wastewater senior project manager Wick Warden said, “Because STV is deeply involved in the overall modernization of Ivy City Yard, our team understands how systems like the IWTP keep rail operations moving every day. . . Designing within an active facility required precise coordination to maintain full treatment performance and avoid service disruptions.”
Upgrades at the IWTP increase treatment capacity to 125 gallons every minute, up from the previous 65 gallons per minute. Other improvements made include a second dissolved air flotation (DAF) unit that operates in parallel with the existing system, modernized pumping, instrumentation and compressed air systems, says STV.
For this work, STV worked with Amtrak and the rest of the design-build team through the project’s construction phases to “verify electrical loading and ensure full alignment with Amtrak engineering standards and discharge permit requirements.” The design itself preserves current chemical inventories and hazard classifications, according to the report. It qualifies as a Level 1 Alteration under the District of Columbia Existing Building Code. As such, the project did not include changes to any fire protection or building occupancy.
