BGMU Veterans Memorial Highway Force Main, Bowling Green, KY

GRW worked with Bowling Green Municipal Utilities (BGMU) – in conjunction with the Warren County Water District (WCWD) – to provide planning, design, bidding, construction administration, and resident project representative services for the approximately 32,000 LF of new 24 and 16-inch PVC force main for the Veterans Memorial Force Main. Work to complete the project consisted of heavy trenching through rock, as well as multiple bore and jacks under state and city roads, and railroads. The new force main unlocks capacity throughout the rest of the collection system and provides conveyance for over 7,800 gallons per minute of wastewater from seven existing pump stations.

The project also includes a liquid oxygen injection (LOX) system that reduces sulfides in the force main going to the wastewater treatment plant, as well as odor control using an activated carbon filter at fourteen individual air/vacuum combination valves along the force main. The LOX system introduces oxygen approximately 3,700 LF upstream of the force main’s connection into the main 42-inch influent gravity sewer at the water recovery facility (WRF).