City of Aiken to rebuild water treatment plant facility

AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WJBF)- Aiken will soon demolish its nearly 70-year-old water treatment plant facility and build a new one later this year.

Council members are finalizing steps to start building a new water treatment plant, it will allow the city to treat 8 million gallons of water per day.

“Getting to construction our steps are you do have funding through America rescue plan act which is the ARPA funding and that has a deadline of December of 2026 to be extended,” Marie Corbin, Goodwyn Mills Cawood project manager.

The new project will cost the city more than $60 million. Leaders got an update at Monday’s city council meeting.

“So, we’re required to get a construction permit for water plant for DHEC that was issued, I believe we got it in the mail, it was issued last week,” said  Marie Corbin, Goodwyn Mills Cawood project manager.

Construction on the facility is expected to be finished in 2026.

“We’ll start receiving quarterly updates because we should be breaking ground later this year and construction will follow and take approximately 30 months we believe , 27 to 30 months” said Stuart Bedebbaugh, city manager. The next quarterly meeting for the water plant will be sometime in July.

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