Guarantee Electrical Co. Electrifying New $55.6 Million Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO. – St. Louis, Mo.-based Guarantee Electrical Co. is advancing the electrification and process control instrumentation installation for a new $55.6 million municipal wastewater treatment plant being built by Cape Girardeau, Mo.

The new plant, which will bring the city into compliance with federal and state wastewater treatment regulations, will have an average capacity of 11 million gallons per day (gpd) and a peak capacity of 50 million gpd.  It will supplement the city’s existing 7 million gpd facility that opened in 1962.

Guarantee will electrify the new plant as a stand-alone facility.  In addition to the primary bio-solids treatment structure, it includes an administration building, head works building, influent pump station and waste-activated sludge tanks.    

The plant will host four sequence batch reactors, a two-channel ultraviolet light disinfection system and an emergency generator to back up critical systems.  Guarantee is installing electrical switchgear, process equipment instrumentation and alarm, security and voice/data systems.  In the existing plant, GECO is performing selective disconnection and demolition followed by updates to certain control systems.  GECO is also overseeing specialty subcontractors responsible for testing/infrared testing and lightning protection installation.

Guarantee joins general contractor KCI Construction Co. of St. Louis and engineer Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., also of St. Louis, on the expandable facility, which is scheduled for completion in June 2014.

Cape Girardeau becomes Guarantee’s 11th wastewater treatment plant project nationally.   The other 10 are in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County, Mo.; southwestern Illinois; and Denver, Colo.

Founded in 1902, St. Louis-based Guarantee Electrical consistently ranks among the largest electrical contractors in the United States.  The company provides full-scope electrical contracting, including preconstruction, construction, design-build, design-assist, value engineering, procurement, service and preventive maintenance.

In addition to a 120,000-square-foot urban campus in St. Louis that features a state-of-the-art fabrication center and multiple warehouses, Guarantee operates offices in Illinois, Colorado and California.  The company reported revenues of $136 million for its fiscal year ending September 30, 2012.

Guarantee is a founding member of the Federated Electrical Contractors (FEC), an affiliation of 33 major electrical contractors with offices in cities across North America, Europe and Asia.  With a current Experience Modification Rating of 0.66, Guarantee recently was awarded FEC’s 2012 Platinum Award as National Industry Safety Leader.

To learn more, visit www.geco.com.