Jacobs Wins Oklahoma City Wastewater Operations Contract

Jacobs has been selected by the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust (OCWUT) to provide operations and maintenance services for the city’s wastewater facilities and solids management program under a five-and-a-half-year contract, Jacobs announced on September 10, 2026. The work covers four wastewater treatment facilities with a combined treatment capacity of more than 110 million gallons per day.

Under the contract, Jacobs will operate and maintain the four treatment facilities, a regional pump station and associated solids management programs, including biosolids disposal and septage receiving services. The system supports wastewater services for Oklahoma City and six neighboring communities.

Jacobs said it will implement enhanced maintenance practices and data-informed planning to improve operations and asset reliability while informing OCWUT’s capital improvement priorities. The award builds on what the company described as a long-standing relationship with the trust.

“As one of the region’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas, Oklahoma City faces increasing demand on its wastewater infrastructure,” Jacobs Senior Vice President Alberto Lazaro said. “By integrating operational insight, asset management and digital capabilities, we’ll support reliable day-to-day performance, while helping OCWUT prioritize investment, strengthen regulatory compliance and manage its infrastructure for the long-term.”

OCWUT General Manager and Utilities Department Director Chris Browning said: “Jacobs has been a trusted partner to Oklahoma City Utilities for many years, and we look forward to continuing that relationship as we plan for the future of our wastewater system.”

The OCWUT award expands Jacobs’ water and wastewater operations and maintenance portfolio, which the company said also includes Duncan, Oklahoma; Jackson, Mississippi; Pampa, Stephenville and San Marcos, Texas; Wilmington, Delaware; The Villages, Florida; and the largest water recycling system in Southern California.

Water and Wastewater Operations Portfolio

In Jackson, JXN Water awarded Jacobs a 10-year contract to operate and maintain the O.B. Curtis and J.H. Fewell water treatment plants, as well as the city’s groundwater wells, booster stations and water storage tanks, according to Jacobs’ Jackson project page. Jacobs began supporting the system in early 2023 under a short-term operations and maintenance agreement after failures at the O.B. Curtis plant in August 2022 left much of the city, home to nearly 180,000 residents, without running water for days. Jacobs states that treatment capacity at the O.B. Curtis plant has since increased by more than 10 million gallons per day through membrane repairs and operational enhancements, and that water demand has been reduced by more than 30%.

In Wilmington, the city selected Jacobs in 2020 for a 20-year contract to operate and manage its wastewater treatment plant, combined sewer overflow facilities and Renewable Energy Biosolids Facility, according to the company’s Wilmington project page. The Wilmington plant processes 168 million gallons of wastewater per day. The city, with approximately 70,851 residents, received a $36 million Clean Water State Revolving Fund to construct the biosolids facility, which disposes of 7,000 wet tons of Class A biosolids sent as fertilizer to crop fields in Pennsylvania, Delaware and local golf courses.

In San Marcos, Jacobs has operated and maintained the city’s 9-million-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment facility since 2005, serving more than 80,000 residents and treating an average of 5.4 million gallons per day, according to Jacobs’ San Marcos project page. Jacobs states that the facility operates under some of the strictest phosphorus permit limits in Texas, and that its team developed, tested and piloted enhanced biological phosphorus removal using existing infrastructure, reducing the use of ferric chloride while meeting and exceeding permit standards.

The West Basin Municipal Water District awarded Jacobs a five-year operations and maintenance contract for the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility and four other facilities, Jacobs announced on April 30, 2025. Jacobs describes the facilities as the largest water recycling operation of its kind in the United States. The Edward C. Little facility produces 40 million gallons per day and, according to Jacobs, is the only treatment facility in existence producing five types of fit-for-purpose recycled water: irrigation, cooling towers, seawater intrusion barrier, groundwater recharge, and low- and high-pressure boiler feeds. The facilities, including the Hyperion pump station and satellite facilities in Carson, Torrance and El Segundo, serve nearly 600 connections to municipal, industrial and commercial businesses, according to Jacobs’ 2025 announcement.