College Hill Filtration Plant, Preliminary Engineering
City of Lynchburg, VA
The City of Lynchburg owns and operates the 14-mgd College Hill Filtration Plant. The plant was constructed in 1958 and upgraded in 1985. The plant withdraws raw water from Pedlar Reservoir and the James River and operates in parallel with the City’s 12-mgd Abert Filtration Plant.
The College Hill Filtration Plant is housed within a seven-story building, with the filters on the seventh floor; filter gallery in the sixth floor; dry chemical storage on the fifth floor; laboratory, control room, chemical feeders and backwash and domestic pumps on the fourth floor; maintenance facilities on the third floor; water and sewer field operations, GIS, backflow prevention program, and meter operations on the second floor; and Utilities Department administration on the first floor.