Featured Projects

Fru-Con is building the world’s largest Fixed Film Denitrification System at the City of Baltimore’s Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant located on the Patapsco River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. The City awarded the project to Fru-Con in December 2009 and is one of several expansions and upgrades at the Plant that will occur over the next 3 years; and once completed, it will be the largest installed fixed-film denitrification system in the world.

After winning a $39.4 million contract to expand and upgrade the Flat Branch Pump Station, Fru-Con began work in February 2009. Fru-Con Construction projects completion of the assignment in early 2012.

Fru-Con began work on the New Design Road Water Treatment Plant in January 2008 after winning a $73 million contract award from Frederick County to expand plant capacity from 8.8 million gallons per day (MGD) to 25 MGD.

Phase 7A is part of a 10-year, modernization and expansion of Arlington’s 72-year-old water pollution control facility. The $134.7 million project boosts the plant’s processing capacity from 30 million gallons per day (GPD) to 40 million GPD. Phase 7A is designed to institute an enhanced nutrient removal system in order to comply with the requirements of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Removal Assistance Act. This involves removing very high levels of nitrogen and significantly improving phosphorous removal.

Situated near the Potomac River, the Broad Run Water Reclamation Facility, is an engineering and construction marvel. On land once used to grow acres of lush bluegrass, a sophisticated series of pipes, tanks, treatment and control systems protects one of the area’s most vital assets – Chesapeake Bay.

As the plant general contractor, Fru-Con worked under a multi-million dollar contract with the Loudoun County Sanitation Authority to build all preliminary and primary treatment facilities, as well as the administration and operations buildings. Construction included related site work, underground utilities and electrical and mechanical work.