The city of Bastrop is seeking a professional engineer who will act as the “engineer of record” for Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 4—a role that will help oversee design of the facility.
“It is a niche expertise, with only a handful of engineers in the country having worked or designed in this area,” Bastrop City Manager Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino said in a Sept. 23 staff report. “In the city’s current [roster], there are no engineers who have worked through this type of technology.”
What we know
Carrillo-Trevino noted that Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 4, an expansion of Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 3, would do the following:
- Reuse the effluent created at the plant
- Generate a new revenue source for the effluent and solids created
- Provide a quicker build time since many parts are prebuilt off-site
- Have a smaller footprint
- Require a lower overall maintenance cost than Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 3
