What $250 million can buy you: See photos of Baton Rouge’s wastewater treatment plant expansion | NOLA.com.

What $250 million can buy you: See photos of Baton Rouge’s wastewater treatment plant expansion

Baton Rouge officials offer tour of newly-expanded wastewater treatment plant

Crews are wrapping up work on the $250 million expansion of the South Wastewater Treatment Plant in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Diana Samuels, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on September 30, 2014 at 4:00 PM, updated September 30, 2014 at 4:15 PM

Crews are finishing up some of the last remaining construction work on Baton Rouge’s newly-expanded South Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The plant’s expansion has cost upwards of $250 million in total, and is the largest capital improvement project in city-parish history. And it’s the biggest piece of the even bigger $1.3 billion overhaul of the parish’s sewer system.

The city-parish offered a tour of the facility Tuesday, as part of a conference being held in New Orleans by the Water Environment Federation.

While the plant has continued operating during construction, its new bells and whistles are expected to be operational by December. The renovations are expanding the plant’s capacity from 120 million gallons daily to 205 million gallons daily.