10/10/2025
🚧 Groundbreaking: American Gulch Water Reclamation Facility Improvements 🚧
This milestone represents years of planning and collaboration to build a sustainable future for Green Valley Water’s 2.8 MGD American Gulch Water Reclamation Facility (WRF).
Working closely with Green Valley Water (GVW), Valentine developed a comprehensive Master Plan for the facility, evaluating capacity, treatability, operability, and condition to create a 25-year roadmap addressing both short- and long-term needs.
Together with GVW and our CMAR partner ASR, we’re proud to have broken ground on the first phase of this effort.
• This phase includes replacing the existing headworks to enhance redundancy, operability, and pretreatment.
• The new headworks will feature coarse screens, fine screens, and new grit removal technology, the first of its kind installed in Arizona and the Southwest.
• An equalization basin equipped with pulsed aeration will improve mixing, odor control, and flow management.
• Upgrades to the bioreactors will include replacing aged ceramic diffusers and undersized aeration piping with fine-bubble tube diffusers, new air headers, and Iris valves for more efficient airflow control.
• Additional improvements include new IMLR pumps and bioreactor transfer and drain pumping enhancements.
This $16 million construction project marks the first step toward building resiliency, improving operability, and enhancing treatment performance for the community.
It was a great day celebrating this groundbreaking with GVW’s board, management, and operations team, along with our construction partners from ASR. A preconstruction meeting, a shared lunch, and some project-inspired cookies made the celebration even sweeter. 🍪
We’re proud to partner with Green Valley Water and ASR on this exciting project, truly One Project. One Team. One Goal.