Stantec Selected for Wards Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades
New York, NY- NYSE, TSX: STN- Stantec, a leading global design and engineering firm, has been selected by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) as part of the team delivering upgrades to the Wards Island Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in New York City. The firm will provide design services during construction through project closeout. The Wards Island WWTP has a design capacity of 275 million gallons per day, servicing over 1 million users. With a drainage area...
City of Nampa and Brown and Caldwell Recognized with Multiple Awards
Image Courtesy: City of Nampa NAMPA, Idaho — The City of Nampa and Brown and Caldwell today announced receivership of two regional honors for infrastructure improvements undertaken at the City of Nampa’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Awarded project of the year (over three million dollars category) by the American Public Works Association Rocky Mountain Chapter, and 2019’s best water/stormwater project by the American Council of Engineering Companies Idaho Chapter, Nampa’s WWTP P...
Improving Water Quality with Operations Research: Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Tetra Tech Awarded the 2019 INFORMS Edelman Award
AUSTIN, TX, April 16, 2019 – INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, announced it has awarded Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Tetra Tech its 2019 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science for its use of operations research (O.R.) to maximize all aspects of its wastewater collection and treatment facilities to better protect the environment and realize hundreds of mi...
Silicon Valley Clean Water Selects Microsoft Tools to Power First Tunneling Progressive Design Build in the U.S
Silicon Valley, California— Silicon Valley Clean Water’s (SVCW) RESCU program is paving the way for the future of wastewater management and capital improvement upgrades using Microsoft’s collaborative tools and other contemporary technology for its complex and innovative approach to project delivery. The RESCU program, (Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade) is a $495 million capital improvement upgrade that incorporates in excess of 50 construction and consulting companies, five...
Clean Water and Clean Energy: The World's First Solar-Electric Sewage Pump-Out Boat is Powered by Torqeedo
Crystal Lake, Ill. USA – Torqeedo has supplied an integrated electric propulsion system for the world’s first full-size solar-electric sewage pump-out boat, which was recently delivered to the township of Branford, Connecticut. The 25-ft. aluminum boat was built for the East Shore District Health Department by Pilot’s Point Marina in Westbrook to provide free sewage pump-out service for boats, preventing the discharge of untreated human waste into the area’s waterways. The propulsion syste...
Stantec Awarded Comprehensive Wastewater Project
Portland, OR - Stantec, a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm, is providing Program Controls, Engineering Services and Construction Management to the City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) during the design development, construction, startup and commissioning of significant infrastructure upgrades for two major local wastewater treatment plants: Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP) and the Tryon Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (TCWTP). BES...
Koch Membrane Systems Installs the UK’s Largest Membrane Bioreactor System
Wilmington, MA — Facing limited space and strict water directives, Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) upgraded the Woolston Wastewater Treatment Works near Southampton, England — providing increased production capacity without expanding the plant’s footprint. KMS, in cooperation with 4Delivery, replaced the Woolston facility’s existing conventional activated sludge system with the PULSION® MBR ultrafiltration membrane — dramatically improving effluent quality by increasing nutrient removal and achie...
City of Malibu Completes New Water Treatment/Water Recycling Facility
This video outlines the path incoming water takes to become treated recycled water for irrigation. Learn more at MalibuCity.org/CCWTF
Scottish Water Launches Demonstration of Microvi's Revolutionary Wastewater Treatment Technology
HAYWARD, Calif. - An innovative new wastewater treatment demonstration is in place at Scottish Water's Development Centre next to Bo'Ness Wastewater Treatment Works. The installation is a collaboration between Microvi (treatment technology and design), WesTech Engineering Inc. (process equipment and design), and Scottish Water. The installation utilizes the Microvi MNE™ process, based on Microvi's proprietary MicroNiche EngineeringTM (MNE) platform for intensifying biological processes. Again...
Palo Alto, California, Enlists Brown and Caldwell to Design Wastewater Treatment Upgrades
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., — Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, today announced its selection by the City of Palo Alto to provide design services for secondary treatment upgrades at the city’s Regional Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP). Operational since 1934 and serving the communities of Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Stanford University, and the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, the RWQCP with 39 million gallons per day (MGD)...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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