MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Specific activities in the municipal wastewater treatment field have included: feasibility studies; wastewater facilities plans; technical and financial analyses for process selection; detailed engineering design; engineering plans and specification preparation; project bidding, wastewater facility permitting; vendor selection; contract negotiations; construction administration; public presentations, training of personnel and regulatory interfacing.
Provides experience in the total wastewater system to include: planning, conceptual design and process selection to meet treatment goals, liquid and solids process design calculations, preparation of detailed design drawings and specifications for construction, site layout, site drainage, site grading, site process piping, site building layouts, and instrumentation and control engineering; construction management, field construction observation during construction, start-up services, supervision of process acceptance testing, troubleshooting projects and providing operation and training services.
Advises municipalities on how to establish asset management systems to extend the useful life of equipment and ensure efficient operation and maintenance services. Conducts treatment plant operator training classes to prepare personnel to sit for certification examinations and/or be more efficient on the job.
Design, Bid and Construction Management of Two Advanced Wastewater Treatment PlantsNitrogen and Phosphorus Nutrient Removal
Town and Village of Webster, New York
Project Manager/Construction Manager. Provided preliminary and final design services for a 15.75-MGD and a 3.75 MGD municipal advanced wastewater treatment plant for nitrogen and phosphorus removal. Performed detailed final designs of liquid wastewater, biosolids and anaerobic digestion treatment systems, prepared bid set of plans and specifications, provided construction management and start-up services. Special project design features included: two-stage recirculating trickling filters on two different sites, combination complete mix and conventional activated sludge with fine bubble aeration, modulating control structure for hydraulic control of submerged effluent weirs.
Design, Bid and Construction Management of a Retrofit Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plants
Massena, New York
Project Manager/Construction Manager. Performed detailed final designs of liquid wastewater, biosolids and anaerobic digestion treatment systems, liquid and solids process calculations, hydraulic and pumping calculations, prepared bid set of plans and specifications, provided construction management and start-up services for a 2.75 MGD municipal wastewater treatment plant: Special project design features included: compressed anaerobic digester gas mixing system, traveling bridge secondary clarifiers with rapid sludge return, and disk nozzle centrifuges for waste activated sludge thickening.
Design, Bid and Construction Management of New Municipal Nutrient Removal Treatment System, Revision of Municipal Sewer Use Ordinance, New Industrial User Agreement
Village of Avon, New York
Project Manager. Diagnosed existing treatment system operational problems, prepared design calculations, prepared bid plans and specifications and performed construction management services for the modification to an existing 2.5-MGD wastewater treatment facility to correct seasonal SPDES permit violations. The project consisted of implementing chemical treatment and polyelectrolytes for phosphorus removal; improved solids capture in secondary settling and gravity thickening. After the renovations were made, the plant was able to consistently meet NPDES discharge permit requirements.
Conducted negotiations with a significant industrial user for an increase in sewer use fees for the Village; rewrote portions of the municipal sewer use ordinance; and prepared a new industrial use agreement with the industry to reflect current conditions. The new sewer use ordinance and industrial agreement resulted in an increase of sewer use revenue to the Village.
Retrofit of Municipal Treatment System
Municipal Rebate through the Local Electric Utility Company
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Director of Engineering/Chief Designer. Provided detailed design, preparation of plans and specifications for a retrofit to a secondary activated sludge treatment plant. Responsibilities included: sizing a new fine bubble aeration system, preparing an application to Massachusetts Electric for a rebate, obtaining a power company rebate, sizing of new variable speed blowers, construction management, and project permitting.
Design Review, Construction Monitoring and Acceptance Testing Septage Only Treatment Facility
Carver, Massachusetts
Project Manager. Provided design review, permitting review, construction monitoring, and facilities acceptance testing for a 100,000-gallon-per-day private, septage-only, treatment facility. The facility utilizes rotating biological contractors, filtration and subsurface rapid infiltration of treated septage. The unique features of this design is its ability to handle septage with a higher than normal grease content and overland flow groundwater infiltration disposal of treated effluent.
Major Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Project
Recommended Solution Deep Rock Tunnels
Expansion of Wastewater Treatment Plant
Fall River, Massachusetts
Department Manager/Managing Engineer/Author -Wastewater Facilities Report. Responsible for managing and directing the efforts of a team of engineers, technicians, : the evaluation of all alternatives and CSO abatement strategies; effects of various abatement strategies on water quality; economic analysis of all alternatives; selection of recommended plan; quality assurance; technical direction for the entire team, client contact, subconsultant coordination. Analyses included various computer simulations of sewer system response to rainfall events, technical and cost analysis to completely separate sanitary and storm sewers in the City, and recommendations for increasing the capacity of the interceptor network.
Authored four volumes of the six-volume CSO facilities plan study. The results of the study recommended combination of deep rock tunnel and surface storage of combined sewer overflows; alterations of existing best management practices within the municipal collection system maintenance division; and expanding the capacity of the existing treatment plant.
Two Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plants for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal
Effluent Disposal Via Groundwater Leaching System Disposal
Essex and Cohasset, Massachusetts
Principal Engineer. Provided the selection of the site, conceptual design, process selection, design bid plans preparation and permitting for two advanced wastewater treatment plants for private developments, one in Essex, Massachusetts, and one in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
Developed permitting plans for collection and treatment system involving approximately 30,000 LF of gravity sewers, 6,000 LF of forcemain, four pump stations, one 60,000 gpd wastewater treatment facility and one 28,000 gpd wastewater treatment facility. Each treatment facility consisted of rotating biological contactors, nitrification and denitrification facilities, mixed-media sand filters, ultraviolet light disinfection and final disposal of highly treated effluent via subsurface groundwater leaching system. These treatment plants were required due to the high density of individual systems in the area.
Wastewater Treatment Plants Operation and Maintenance Manual Preparation
Six Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Project Manager/Engineer. Prepared the Operation and Maintenance Manuals for six (6) municipal wastewater treatment plants. Treatment processes covered in these manuals included: preliminary treatment to include screening and degritting, flow equalization; primary clarification; conventional, complete mix, plug flow, contact stabilization, extended aeration activated sludge processes; rotating biological contactors; final clarifiers; coagulation, flocculation, pressure and mixed-media filtration; chlorination; dechlorination; nitrification, denitrification and phosphorus removal; chemical storage and feed systems; belt filter press, gravity and centrifuge sludge thickening; anaerobic digestion and aerobic digestion; belt filter press and plate/frame sludge dewatering; hydraulics and pumping systems.
Municipal Wastewater Facilities Plans
Rushville, Mountour Falls, Odessa, Village and Town of Victor, and Farmington, New York
Project Manager. Prepared the wastewater facilities reports for several upstate New YorkVillages and Towns namely: Mountour Falls, New York; Odessa, New York; Village and Town of Victor, New York; Farmington, New York. Studied regional advanced treatment modifications for each of these towns, provided alternative analysis and costing, determined collection system modifications, evaluated the effectiveness of existing treatment systems in meeting new discharge permit requirements, and overall preparation of conceptual designs and economic analyses of chosen alternatives. These facilities studies were the first step planning document required by the Federal Construction Grants Program.
Innovative Small Diameter Gravity Sewer Collection System and
Aerated Lagoon Treatment System
Village of Interlaken, New York
Project Manager. Prepared a detailed wastewater facilities plan and conceptual design documents for an innovative collection and treatment system using small diameter gravity sewers, septic tank effluent pumping and aerated lagoons for wastewater treatment. The facilities plan contained the complete planning, conceptual design, economic analysis and environmental impact analysis for the project. The aerated lagoons utilized a state-of-the-art aeration system and an innovative ozone injection system for post aeration and algae control.
Prepared grant application and obtained an innovative/alternative Federal grant for the Village to fund the project at the highest level. The project utilized ozone for both disinfection and algae control.
The project’s Federal and State grant funded 92.5 percent of the total project cost.
Innovative Small Diameter Gravity Sewer Collection System and Recirculating Sand Filter Treatment System
Village of Rushville, New York
Project Manager. Authored the wastewater facilities report for the new innovative wastewater collection and treatment facility for a small Village community in New York State. The facilities report contained the complete planning, conceptual and preliminary designs, capital and O&M analysis, life-cycle cost analysis for an innovative treatment and collection system for the dense area of the core parts of the Village.
The collection system consisted of using small diameter gravity sewers, 3-inch and 4-inch in diameter, after the individual septic tanks and larger, community septic tanks for intermediate treatment. The treatment system consisted of a nitrifying recirculating sand filter with surface discharge into an intermittent stream. Prepared the required environmental impact analysis and conceptual design documents for the project. This was one of the first innovative processes of its type in New York State.
Prepared grant application and obtained an innovative/alternative Federal grant for the Village to fund the project at the highest level. The project’s federal and state grant funded 92.5 % of the total project cost.
Demonstration Grant for Construction of New Wastewater Treatment Plant Cogeneration Facility
New YorkState Energy Research and Development Authority
Project Manager. Obtained a Demonstration Grant for the Village of Avon, New York, to be used to the implement the cogeneration of electricity via the utilization of anaerobic digester gas. The proposal was selected out of 85 applicants Statewide. Provided the complete planning, conceptual design, capital and O&M analysis, life-cycle cost analysis for the cogeneration facility and obtained the money for Avon to use in its construction.
Offshore Wastewater Treatment Facilities – USS Missouri
Department of the Navy
FortKamehameha, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Managing Engineer.
On March 31, 1992, the Missouri was decommissioned for the final time; the last active service battleship in the world, her departing officers and crew the last battleship sailors.
Though her active naval service is complete, her legacy is not forgotten. On January 29, 1999, after years of dedicated community effort, the Battleship Missouri returned to service as centerpiece of the Battleship Missouri Memorial and Museum in Pearl Harbor.
To accomodate the final resting place of the USS Missouri, modifications were made to the landside Fort Kamehameha wastewater treatment plant in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Responsible charge of the design and preparation of contract bid documents for these improvements including major modifications and additions to the secondary biological treatment system, secondary clarification and return sludge processing facilities.
Innovative Pressure Sewer System and Small Diameter Gravity Sewer Collection System
Town of Milo, New York
Project Manager. Conducted detailed facilities planning, environmental impact analysis, and implementation of an innovative collection system which gathered wastewater from approximately 250 lakefront homes along one of New YorkState’s Finger Lakes premier resort towns. Pereformed prelimnary and final design for applied low-pressure force mains, grinder pumps and septic tank effluent pumps to mitigate negative impacts of failing septic systems on the water quality of the lake.
Conceptual design included: determining placement and layout of mainline sewer, complex hydraulic designs that required positive displacement pumps to interface with mainline centrifugal pump stations. Prepared preliminary design plans and specifications, final designs and bid set of contract documents. Responsible for all management aspects of the projects, including meeting with individual residents to obtain project easements, interfacing with the Selectmen, Town Manager, public committee. Project consisted of over six miles of mainline force main, four major mainline booster pump stations, 250 individual home grinder pump stations and 2,500 LF of conventional gravity sewers.
Apllied for and obtained a Federal and State grant for the project that funded 92.5 percent of the total project cost.
New Interceptor Sewer Project and Renovation to Six Combined Sewer Overflow Structures
Monroe County Water Division
Rochester, New York
Project Manager. Provided the technical analysis and prepared the technical design report and preliminary plans for a major extension to the existing City interceptor sewer network. Project consisted of replacement of 5,000 LF of 84 inches to 96 inches prestressed concrete interceptor sewer and renovations to six combined sewer overflow structures.
Major Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Project
Computer Modeling for Quantity, Quality Impacts to Receiving Waters
City of Rochester, New York
Project Engineer. Assigned to the City of Rochester Combined Sewer Overflow Study and Facilities Plan. Responsible for the development of the complete technical quantity/quality input database, (for both existing and future improved conditions) used as input for the sophisticated German QQS computer model simulation. Simulation of CSO discharges via computer modeling was used in the study for the assessment of combined sewer overflow pollutant quantity and quality impacts on receiving water of the City. Developed various abatement strategies used to mitigate the effects of CSO discharges and prepared secions of the Facilities Plan.
Demonstration Grant for Construction of New Municipal Cogeneration Facility Anaerobic Digester Gas Utilization
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Project Manager. Prepared the Grant Application and obtained a Demonstration Grant for the Village of Avon, New York, to be used to the implement the cogeneration of electricity via the utilization of anaerobic digester gas. The proposal was selected out of 85 applicants statewide. Provided the complete planning, conceptual design, capital and O&M analysis, life-cycle cost analysis for the cogeneration facility and obtained the money for Avon to use in its construction.
Wastewater Treatability Studies Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal
Town of Webster, New York
Project Engineer. Performed laboratory pilot testing, jar testing and chemical addition analysis for phosphorus and nitrogen removal for the purposes of determining the initial dosages of all chemicals to be used in design of full-scale treatment plant modifications.
Specific activities in the residuals treatment disposal field have been in concert with many of the wastewater treatment plant projects designed. His specific experience includes: the conceptual design, process design, calculations, preparation of bid sets of design plans and specifications, bid analysis, selection of the general contactor, construction management, start-up and acceptance testing, and operations troubleshooting for numerous wastewater treatment plant residuals processing and disposal.
Well-versed with the Class A and Class B biosolids regulations/criteria and with the following wastewater residuals collection, treatment and disposal processes: grit removal, screenings collection, gravity sludge thickening, gravity belt sludge thickening, dissolved air flotation thickening, anaerobic digestion sludge stabilization, aerobic sludge stabilization, belt filter press sludge dewatering, centrifuge sludge dewatering, plate and frame filter press dewatering alkaline stabilization sludge beneficial reuse, land disposal of liquid sludge and sludge cake, and dewatered sludge storage.
Comprehensive Residuals Management and Septage Disposal Program
Union County, Pennsylvania
Project Manager. Developed a comprehensive residuals and septage management program for the County. This effort included: developing a septage and sludge licensing program for county haulers; characterization and quantification of residuals and septage generated in UnionCounty; identification and evaluation of viable management alternatives; and preparing for and conducting a regional, Residuals-Management Seminar (UnionCounty and seven adjacent counties). The seminar, conducted in May 1995, covered the available alternatives for residuals beneficial-use (drying/pelletizing, composting, alkaline stabilization, digestion, land application), as well as disposal options (landfill, incineration). Federal regulations (40 CFR Part 503) and proposed State regulations applicable to the alternative options for the beneficial use and disposal of residuals were also addressed.
Retrofit of Existing Abandoned Secondary Treatment Plant
Septage and Liquid Sludge Treatment Plant
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Project Manager. Provided design, permitting, construction monitoring and facility acceptance testing for a private, regional septage and liquid sludge treatment and dewatering facility. The innovative aspect of this project was that the core facilities of the septage plant are an existing abandoned municipal treatment plant. Utilized the existing facilities to the extent possible and modified other existing unit processes to provide a new septage/liquid sludge treatment plant and an alkaline stabilization facility for biosolids beneficial reuse.
Provided design and permitting of a stormwater control structure for this residuals project.
Detailed Summary of Wastewater Collection & Treatment Experience With Clients Served
Detailed Summary of Wastewater Facilities Planning Experience With Clients Served
