Grit Chamber, Blue Plains Treatment Plant | Volkert Location: Washington, D.C. Client: D.C. Water and Sewer Authority DC Water’s Blue Plains Treatment Plant, originally constructed in 1938, sits on a 150-acre site on the Potomac River and serves 4 million people in Washington, DC and suburban Virginia and Maryland. Blue Plains is the largest advanced wastewater treatment facility of its type in the world with a rated annual average capacity of 370 million gallons per day. Volkert led a team of specialty subconsultants and served as the prime engineer for the $84 million replacement and rehabilitation of the east and west grit removal process facilities. The objective of the project was to upgrade the grit removal process system and reduce maintenance and operations costs. The project inc

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