The City of Fort Myers Water Treatment Plant is located at 2751 Jacksonville St. in Fort Myers. This department operates and maintains the Water Treatment Plant to provide a safe water service to the City’s customers and works to ensure water quality control measures meet or exceed state and federal regulations on safe drinking water.
The plant capacity is 12 million gallons with a daily demand of 7.5 million gallons. The plant is completely automated and is operated 24 hours per day by State certified operators. The operation budget is approximately $2.8 million dollars per year, resulting in a cost per thousand gallons of water treated of approximately $0.74.
The plant process is reverse osmosis that consists of 2688 low pressure membrane elements. The elements are 8-1/2”in diameter and 40”long and are manufactured by TriSep Corporation, Dow Corporation and Hydranautics.
After the reverse osmosis process the water enters though degasifers to remove mainly hydrogen sulfide and then into the clearwell. The water while in the clearwell is stabilized and then disinfected before entering the ground storage tanks.
If you have any questions regarding your drinking water, please contact us.