Northeast Water System Improvements Project

The northeast side of Midland, Texas, continues to expand as developers work to meet the housing demand in the Permian Basin. All new development brings a need for water. The City of Midland selected Garney to construct the Northeast Water System Improvements Project – Bid Package A. This project delivered water from the existing water treatment plant to a newly installed 2 million gallon elevated storage tank 10 miles away.

This started with a new transfer pump station with three 350 hp vertical turbine pumps rated at 3,000 gallons per minute (GPM) for a total capacity of 4.3 MGD. From the transfer pump station, Garney installed 52,000 linear feet (LF) of transmission main. This began with 9,000 LF of 30-inch PVC water main installed within a key city thoroughfare requiring full-time traffic control. This portion of the project also included multiple trenchless installations; careful navigation across 41 known utility crossings, including high-pressure gas lines; and 72,000 square yards (SY) of asphalt paving over the entire width of the thoroughfare.

Once the transmission main left the City streets, it entered the oilfields and included nearly 43,000 LF of 24-inch and 30-inch PVC with careful installation around 52 high-profile gas line crossings and several more trenchless crossings. At this point, the transmission main tied into the newly installed elevated storage tank and installation of the distribution main began.

This project was timely for an area that, at the time, couldn’t support the water demands of the local housing development. Completing this project was a big success for this growing community.