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15 treatment plant, conveyance tunnel, desalination, and potable reuse programs — by region, status, and owner utility. We track every major U.S. water build here; and specialize in helping owners and construction management teams recruit the PMs, superintendents, and commissioning leaders who deliver them.
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Five programs whose scale, funding, or first-of-kind profile mark them as defining builds for the 2025–2032 water infrastructure construction cycle.
The largest active drinking-water treatment build in the country. A new granular-media filtration facility on a 95-acre site east of Portland — built to remove Cryptosporidium and meet federal treatment rules — plus miles of large-diameter raw and finished water pipelines. More than 400 craft workers are on site as the program moves into above-ground structural and process mechanical phases, with WIFIA financing behind it and the budget updated to $2.56B in early 2026.
The final major leg of DC Water’s consent-decree Clean Rivers Program. A 5.5-mile deep CSO tunnel with TBM “Mary” mining from West Potomac Park, plus drop shafts and diversion facilities along the Potomac — cutting overflows to the river by 93% and sending them to Blue Plains, the largest advanced wastewater plant in the world.
A fivefold expansion of Houston’s Northeast Water Purification Plant — from 80 to 400 MGD — delivered under a design-build joint venture to shift the region off subsiding groundwater. TCEQ has certified the expanded plant, final optimization is under way, and the associated regional transmission mains complete in 2026. One of the largest surface-water treatment expansions in U.S. history.
One of the largest water recycling programs ever planned. A new advanced purification facility at the Warren Water Resource Facility in Carson plus dozens of miles of conveyance to recharge groundwater basins and supply treatment plants across the region — up to 150 MGD at full scale. Metropolitan’s board certified the Final EIR in February 2026, with a 45 MGD Stage 1 moving through final design.
Positioned to be the first large-scale seawater desalination plant in Texas and among the largest in the Americas — 30 MGD of drought-proof industrial and municipal supply on the Corpus Christi Inner Harbor. A design-build proposal near $1B is before City Council with Texas Water Development Board financing in motion, and the coastal desal bench — process, marine, and electrical — is already thin.
Every program below is compiled from public filings, utility announcements, and funding records — organized by region, with owner, scope, status, and the roles each build is actually hiring for.
Storage tunnel from Ballard to Wallingford holed through in 2023 (Lane Construction); 2026 work centers on conveyance microtunneling beneath NW 56th St and structural concrete at the Ballard Pump Station. WIFIA-financed CSO control for the Ship Canal, Salmon Bay, and Lake Union.
Pressurized-face TBM driving seven miles from the A.K. Warren Water Resource Facility to the Palos Verdes ocean outfalls — replacing effluent tunnels 60 and 80 years old that serve 5 million people across the LA Basin. Single-heading drive with precast segmental lining.
Ten coordinated projects — North City Water Reclamation Plant expansion, the new Pure Water Facility, Morena pump station and pipelines, and a subaqueous Miramar Reservoir pipeline — entering startup to deliver roughly a third of San Diego’s water locally. WIFIA-backed.
The nation’s first direct-to-distribution water reuse facility — advanced purification of Roberto Bustamante WWTP effluent straight into the drinking-water system. PCL/Sundt joint venture building a commissioning-heavy, first-of-kind process train in a desert supply market.
The first major new North Texas reservoir in roughly 30 years. All 5M+ cubic yards of dam embankment placed, the raw-water pump station and pipeline essentially complete, and impoundment under way since July 2026 — limited delivery late 2026, full operation 2027.
A new ion-exchange treatment building removing PFAS from the district’s drinking water — among the first major Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-funded PFAS builds to reach completion, and a template for the compliance retrofits now queued nationwide under EPA’s PFAS rule.
The capstone of Chicago’s Tunnel and Reservoir Plan. Quarry excavation by Vulcan Materials expands McCook to 10 billion gallons of combined-sewer and flood storage protecting 3.1 million people — delivered under a first-of-kind USACE–MWRD partnership and a federal consent decree.
Design is under way on what is billed as the largest dedicated PFAS water treatment facility in the country — advanced treatment protecting the Great Miami buried-valley aquifer wellfields that supply the Dayton region. Design engineer selected August 2026; construction phasing to follow.
New York City’s largest water-supply tunneling effort in Westchester since the 1940s — a 27-ft tunnel 400–500 ft below grade carrying up to 2.6 billion gallons a day from Kensico Reservoir to the Catskill-Delaware UV disinfection facility. Frontier-Kemper holds the ~$1.1B tunnel contract; site permitting actions continued through 2026.
Alexandria’s largest-ever infrastructure project — a waterfront CSO tunnel and pumping station beneath Old Town, mined by TBM “Hazel” (Traylor-led JV) and ribbon-cut July 1, 2026 against a state-mandated deadline. Keeps roughly 130 million gallons of combined sewage out of the Potomac each year, capturing 98% of combined flows.
Every program shown is compiled from public filings, utility and district announcements, WIFIA and state SRF funding records, and our own placement work across the segment. We surface programs with confirmed owner sponsorship at procurement, design, construction, commissioning, or recently-completed stages.
To appear in the tracker, a program must meet at least three of the following criteria:
We refresh the tracker as programs are announced, status changes occur, or capacity and funding figures are updated. The tracker is maintained by iRecruit.co’s research team in coordination with our active placement work. Verify all data before referencing in formal documents. Some program specifics (MGD figures, $ values, contractor assignments, timelines) may have evolved since compilation.
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