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The largest plant of its kind in Michigan and 8^th largest plant in the US to date has been designed to serve municipalities that make up the North Kent Sewer Authority:  Plainfield Charter Township, Alpine Township, City of Rockford, Cannon Township and Courtland Township.  All public sewers from these 5 communities will be treated by PARCC Side.

This project involved preconstruction services, engineering design services, site surcharging, widening of the Grand River, plant construction, effluent or clean treated water piping to the river, influent (raw sewage) piping to the plant, and a new membrane system.

A membrane technology is utilized to treat both waste water in this plant as well as water from sources like rivers and wells for drinking water supplies. Additionally, the bioreactor at this plant requires only a  122’ x 287’ footprint which is ¼ of the size of a typical wastewater treatment plant. 

PARCC Side Clean Water plant is designed to serve over 25,600 Residential Equivalent Units (Reu’s) which means that the plant will be treating the flow from the communities equivalent to that generated by over 25,600 homes.

 “The CM process afforded an opportunity to select a good local contracting team with focus on achieving the best quality, with project done on time and within the budget.”

Mark Prein, PE, Prein Newhof