In March, Slayden hosted water/wastewater professionals and students at the Rock Creek Recovery Facility project in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA). The tour was part of PNCWA’s Spring Summit, a workshop series hosted by PNCWA committees and water partners.
Serving Washington County, including Hillsboro and parts of Beaverton, the facility processes an average of 37 million gallons of wastewater daily, adhering to the highest national safety and quality standards. Notable for its sustainability features, Rock Creek utilizes advanced technology to recover valuable resources, generate electricity and heat from captured methane, and produce a slow-release fertilizer from recycled phosphorus. In operation since 1978, the updated facility is poised to adapt to the region’s growing needs.
The Rock Creek Resource Recovery Facility tour provided a hands-on learning experience for members and students to witness first-hand the intricacies of an active site and see Slayden’s progress. This included a new primary clarifier to increase the facility’s capacity to handle wastewater, ground improvements to mitigate structural failures, a new gallery to optimize the flow and treatment processes, septage receiving (the content pumped from septic tanks) to promote public health, and other site upgrades that will enhance the facility’s operational efficiency, safety, and compliance.
The Rock Creek Resource Recovery Facility will be substantially completed in November this year.
Slayden Constructors and Jacobs Engineering recently completed a $78 million expansion of the Robert A. Duff Water Treatment Plant for the Medford Water Commission. The project boosts capacity from 45 to 65 million gallons per day and adds advanced filtration, a new reservoir, a modern pump station, and seismic‑resilient redundancies. This upgrade strengthens long‑term water reliability for Medford and the greater Rogue Valley, supporting regional growth and public health.
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Slayden earned First Place in the 2025 AGC Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA) in the Utility Infrastructure Category — Under 500,000 Work Hours.
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Slayden has been concentrating its recruitment efforts at university career fairs renowned for their construction programs. During the fall and winter career fairs, Slayden worked hard to recruit and place nine interns for the summer of 2024. The students come from George Fox University, Boise State, Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon Institute of Technology, and Boston University. Slayden is excited to welcome Nina Le Brun, Lauren Wilder, Jaden Notehelfer, Owen Haugh, Jayce Clevenger, Nate Smith, Kellen Westbrooks, Hannah Song, and Evan Dela Cruz to its internship program.
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