St. Paul opens new water treatment facility
The city of St.Paul, Minn, announced the opening of a new water treatment facility. Construction began in 2022 for the $250 million facility. It started flowing in September, 2025, after passing health and safety inspections. The new water treatment facility cleans water from the Mississippi River and distributes it to St. Paul and 14 surrounding cities. The new plant also adds ozonation to help cut out any taste, smell and contaminants.
St. Paul Regional Water Services customers use about 40 million gallons per day in the winter and up to about 70 million in the summer. The new facility holds around two million gallons of water at a time and has the capacity to treat about 28 million gallons per day. It will soon be available for public and school tours.
“Every time you get that clean, odorless, colorless, tasteless water out of your faucet, you got to know that somebody has done a whole lot of work to deliver that Mississippi River water to that water that we can enjoy in our kitchens and our water fountains,” said Mayor Melvin Carter.
