WRP Maintenance

The Water Reclamation Division is comprised of four separate maintenance sections with a staff of 31.  Each section is a major player in the repair and maintenance of the plant mechanical and electrical equipment, buildings, grounds, electrical switchgear and computer based process controls.  Each section performs routine scheduled preventative maintenance work on the equipment within their work discipline.  In addition, they perform minor and major repairs, in addition to, rebuilds and installation of new equipment.

The Electrical/Instrumentation staff maintains all plant electrical equipment, motor control centers, power distribution system, programming and troubleshooting plant process control computers, as well as, the testing and calibrating pressure and flow monitoring instruments.  A significant area of responsibility is the weekly testing and calibration of various instruments to assure that processed water meets state required standards.

The Maintenance Mechanics staff maintains four large industrial digester gas fueled engines, pumps capable of moving 13,000 gallons of water per minute, conveyor systems to move dewatered material to trucks for disposal, belt presses to dewater processed material, and the mechanical equipment within the concrete process tanks.

The Facilities Maintenance staff maintains the 85 plus acres of plant grounds, nearly 100 trees and approximately 20 buildings.  In addition, staff maintains the building heating and cooling systems, plumbing systems and building roofs.  A major part of the work is devoted to painting plant buildings and the plant process piping systems.

The RIX Facility Maintenance staff maintains the 78 acre Rapid Infiltration and Extraction facility.  The facility consists of 10 water percolation ponds ranging in size from 3 to 6 acres.  This is accomplished with heavy road construction type equipment used to remove dirty sand from the basin and replace it with clean washed sand from the on-site sand washing facilities.  Staff is responsible for the service and repair of 35 deep well pumps, transmission piping and sand bed water filter.  The water extracted from the ground or processed through the DynaSand filter beds is passed through a five channel, 15 bank UV system to assure the water meets required standards of the Regional Water Quality Control Board and the State of California Department of Health Services.