The Daily Dig
Carollo Engineers are set to provide construction management services for the Advanced Purified Water Facility, a $200 million project that will be the first water purification and reuse facility in Nevada. DOWL will support Carollo across resident engineering, quality oversight, and contract administration at multiple project sites.
The facility is being developed under OneWater Nevada, a regional collaboration between TMWA and the City of Reno. Sited a few miles north of Reno, it will produce Category A+ Advanced Purified Water under Nevada Administrative Code 445A, the classification required for all state-recognized recycling applications, including groundwater augmentation.
Treatment runs through an ozone-biological-carbon process: ozone oxidation, biological filtration, granular activated carbon polishing, and UV disinfection. The source notes this approach carries lower capital and operating costs than conventional reverse osmosis systems and eliminates brine-concentrate discharge. Finished water will travel seven miles via pipeline for agricultural irrigation and aquifer injection, stored for future withdrawal as needed.
The scope covers multiple locations. Work includes upgrades to the Reno-Stead Water Reclamation Facility, construction of the APWF itself, an export pump station, conveyance pipelines, finished water storage tanks, and injection, monitoring, and extraction wells. A potable water pipeline for future connection to the TMWA system is also included.
Groundbreaking is planned for this summer, with construction running through November 2028.
Snapshot:
Owner: Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) and City of Reno
Construction Manager: Carollo Engineers
CM Support: DOWL
Location: A few miles north of Reno, Nevada
Sector: Water/Wastewater Infrastructure
Project Value: $200 million
Treatment Technology: Ozone oxidation, biological filtration, granular activated carbon, UV disinfection
Water Classification: Category A+ Advanced Purified Water (NAC 445A)
Key Scope: APWF construction, Reno-Stead WRF upgrades, export pump station, conveyance pipelines, storage tanks, injection/monitoring/extraction wells, future potable pipeline connection
Discharge Reduction: Up to 2 million gallons per day reduction in reclaimed water discharge to Swan Lake
Conveyance: 7-mile pipeline to agricultural irrigation and aquifer injection site
Groundbreaking: Summer 2026
Estimated Completion: November 2028
TheJobWalk Thoughts
This project runs across multiple sites through late 2028, covering civil, mechanical, pipeline, and specialty well drilling work. Subs and suppliers who engage the CM team early will be better positioned when procurement windows open across those packages.
The ozone-biological-carbon treatment model is a meaningful departure from reverse osmosis-based systems. The mechanical and chemical handling scope looks different, which matters when estimating. Contractors used to RO builds should not assume the scope translates directly.
The source states that solid execution here could enable similar projects at other Nevada reclamation facilities. That makes this worth tracking beyond the immediate construction opportunity. The pipeline of follow-on work is real if this project performs.
