Metro completes the Second Creek Interceptor in July 2024. The largest transmission project in Metro’s history, the pipeline is expected to double wastewater flows to the NTP. The project involved installing 17 miles of gravity-fed interceptor pipeline, which extends Metro’s service area to the northeast Denver area.
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Metro’s updated Biosolids Dewatering and Storage Facility goes online. The facility features eight centrifuges, four dewatered biosolids storage bins, electrical transformers, control room, and two truck lanes that allow up to four METROGRO trucks to be loaded simultaneously.
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Resource Recovery and Reuse (RR&R) employees moved into the new RR&R Biosolids and Fleet Services Building. The new building features a 10,000 square foot administration area and a 20,000 square foot shop.
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Metro launched its updated strategic plan in July. By 2022, Metro had completed 90% of the goals set forth in the 2016 Strategic Plan. The new plan, which was an employee-driven process, is a forward-thinking update that focuses on Metro’s people, workplace, and communities.
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The largest MagPrex phosphorus recovery reactor in the world begins operation at the RWHTF. The reactor is designed to recover phosphorus from the biosolids upstream of dewatering. The phosphorus is recycled into a fertilizer product.
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Planning begins for the Second Creek Interceptor, a major pipeline that will travel through portions of Adams County, Aurora, Brighton, Commerce City, Denver, and Denver International Airport to be served by the District’s Northern Treatment Plant.
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The Board of Directors adopt the Metro District’s Strategic Plan
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The Northern Treatment Plant begins operation in Brighton, Colorado.
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Metro’s Board of Directors approved the Northern Treatment Plant Wastewater Utility Plan.
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Metro phases out the production of Class A compost and associated buildings are removed. Board of Directors downsized from 67 to 34 members via reapportionment with revision to an establishing statute.
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