Water Treatment Division

Water Treatment Flow Process

The Bossier City Water Treatment Plant was built in 1958 and is situated on a twenty-five acre parcel alongside the Red River. The original plant had a treatment capacity of 6 million gallons per day (MGD) and the water was pumped directly from the Red River before being treated. Plant expansions and treatment modifications were made over the years to keep up with increased drinking water demands required for Bossier City and surrounding areas. Production capacity was increased in 1972 to 16 MGD and again in 1996 to 25 MGD. In the 1996 upgrade, new treatment techniques and technologies such as the addition of ozone and computer- controlled systems were employed to contend with the unique treatment challenges that resulted with newly adopted State and Federal Drinking Water Regulations. The most recent production increase was completed in 2013 bringing the total production capability to 50 MGD. This addition included the installation of a low-pressure membrane microfiltration system along with additional ozone injection technologies and granular activated carbon treatment processes in order to further improve the finished water quality. 

Water Treatment Plant personnel work 24/7, 365 days each year to maintain, protect, monitor, control and manage all related processes and systems, while meeting and/or exceeding very stringent drinking water regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, to save money through department-wide optimization strategies, the City of Bossier decided to restructure management within the Public Utilities Department. On July 1, 2016, Bossier City and Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. (Now Waggoner Engineering) formed a Public-Private Partnership whereas the management and oversight of Bossier City’s Utilities Department would be Manchac’s responsibility. This mutual agreement provides that Manchac would deliver planning, design, construction management, financial assistance, operational assistance, maintenance oversight and all management of day-to-day activities associated with Bossier City’s Public Utilities Department. This department includes the following five divisions: Wastewater Treatment, Drinking Water Treatment, Water Distribution Maintenance, Lift Station Maintenance and Sewer Pre-Treatment. 

The Bossier City Water Treatment Plant has the versatility of having three independent treatment schemes that can be utilized together or separately. The processes that are placed in service are dependent on various environmental and other conditions ranging from source water quality changes that may impact treatment requirements to consumer water demand fluctuations that dictate the untreated and treated water flow requirements that are needed to keep up with these numerous and continuously changing variables.