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PCL, Sundt Collaborate On Landmark Waterworks
Pure Water Center groundbreaking participants included (L-R) Adam Wickersham, EPWater vice president of information technology; Gilbert Trejo, EPWater vice president of operations and technical services; Iliana Holguin, El Paso County commissioner; Ricardo Samaniego, El Paso County judge; John Balliew, EPWater CEO/president; Renard Johnson, El Paso mayor; Bryan Morris, Public Service Board chair; Anna Gitter, Public Service Board member; Stephanie Block Uribarri, Public Service Board secretary-treasurer; Charlie Intebi, Public Service Board vice chair; and Ivan Niño, city of El Paso representative.
By David Holzel CEG CORRESPONDENT
One day in 2021, Sanaan Villalobos received a call from El Paso Water, the nonprofit public utility that serves the West Texas city of 700,000 people. Villalobos, vice president and project manager of Carollo Engineers, was leading the design of EPWater’s Pure Water Center, the first direct-to-distribution water reuse facility in the United States. El Paso — which receives a scant 9 in. of rainfall a year on average — relies on fresh and desalinated groundwater and water from an increasingly drought-plagued Rio Grande for its drinking water.
But for decades, the city also has recycled and innovated and conserved, so that need would not outstrip the supply of drinking water. In fact, conservation has cut water use by 40 percent since the 1970s, according to texastribune.com. The aim of the $295 million Pure Water Center was to increase the water supply in an increasingly hot and dry environment. Carollo planned, designed and is providing construction management services for the center in tandem with contractors PCL Construction and Sundt Construction. Parkhill provided, architectural, civil, landscape architecture, interiors, structural and electrical design services for the Pure Water Center as a subconsultant to Carollo Engineers see WATERWORKS page 10
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El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson addresses those gathered at the Feb. 27, 2025, groundbreaking ceremony.
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