The solar panels will produce around 2.2 million kWh each year in energy offsetting production costs.
A solar field of 3,565 panels on a parcel of land at the DRRWTP, was designed and being built by New Jersey American Water and its contractor ENERActive Solutions of Asbury Park.
The DRRWTP treats and distributes water to customers in Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester Counties.
The $7.7m project will be complete in April 2012, and the installation will produce nearly 1.2 million kWh per year.
Simultaneously in Mansfield, New Jersey American Water and ENERActive have begun a $7.1m project to erect 3,290 solar panels.
The solar field will go into service in June 2012, and the panels will produce more than one million kWh of power per year.
