MS, Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, 1987

BS, Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1981

 

Registered Professional Engineer; New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware

Certified WWTP Operator; New Jersey, Pennsylvania

 

Mr. Bradley has 26 years of wastewater and water engineering experience encompassing facility planning, evaluations, design, permitting, construction management, start-up, operations assistance, training, and process troubleshooting in the areas of:

 

Directing a nutrients reduction cost estimation study for the New Jersey Harbor Dischargers Group, a consortium of ten authorities in northern New Jersey – PVSC, MCUA, BCUA, JMEUC, RVSA, LRSA, NHSA, SMUA, EMUA, and NBMUA -  that collectively discharge approximately 750 mgd to the New York-New Jersey Harbor.  Identified recommended technologies to achieve “high”, “medium”, and “low” levels of additional nitrogen and carbon removal.  Directed preparation of capital and O&M cost estimates and corresponding cost curves.  The information generated through this study will be utilized by EPA during the process of finalizing a TMDL for the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary.

 

Managed study, design, permitting, and construction phase services for six phases of capital improvements to the Ocean County Utility Authority's 28-mgd Central water pollution control facility, including expansion of capacity to 32 mgd.  Managed the design of a new 56-mgd emergency influent pump station, aeration tanks, primary and final sedimentation tanks, anaerobic digester, distributed control system, and primary, return, and waste sludge pumping systems.  Managed modifications to the main influent pumping station, final sedimentation tanks, odor control and septage receiving systems, and replacement of coarse-bubble diffusers with fine-bubble diffusers.  Directed the design of an effluent flow equalization basin, a 4,500-kW emergency generator facility, and a 60-mgd effluent pumping station.  Prepared applications and supporting documents to obtain funding through the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program.

 

Directed a plant-wide condition assessment and feasibility study for the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s 20-mgd Southern water pollution control facility.  Evaluated the condition of existing mechanical, electrical, and HVAC equipment as well as structures, metals, and protective coatings.  Evaluated alternatives to rehabilitate or replace deteriorated systems and to enhance performance, efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.  Subsequently directed the design of approximately $25 million in recommended improvements, and currently directing construction phase service

 

Directed the preparation of a re-rating study to justify an increase in the OCUA’s Central water pollution control facility from 28 mgd to 32 mgd, including preparation of flow and mass balances and a detailed capacity assessment of each unit process

 

Prepared a facilities plan for improvements to the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority's 40-mgd wastewater treatment plant in New Jersey.  Determined the capacity of existing unit processes and conveyance systems.  Evaluated alternatives for treatment of flow from combined sewer overflows.  Evaluated alternatives to achieve nitrogen removal, enhanced TSS removal, and a proposed nondetectable chlorine residual effluent limitation.  Conducted pilot testing of effluent filtration and ultraviolet disinfection equipment.  In association with two other firms, directed the design of $130 million in  improvements that will improve performance, rehabilitate or replace aging infrastructure, and increase wet-weather treatment capacity from 60 mgd to 105 mgd.  Currently directing construction phase services in association with three other firms.

 

Managed study, design and construction services for the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority in New Jersey over a 20 year period.  Currently managing a phosphorus removal study for the 11.7 mgd River Road Plant, 0.3 mgd Hopewell Plant and 0.3 mgd Pennington Plant, in conjunction with evaluating alternatives to replace mechanical surface aerators serving the secondary activated sludge process and separate stage nitrification process.  Also evaluating alternatives to improve the grit removal process and to implement fine screening.  Other projects have included the design of biofilters for odor control, replacement of gaseous chlorine and sulfur dioxide feed systems with sodium hypochlorite and sodium bisulfite storage and feed systems in a new disinfection building, first U.S. installation of fully enclosed 14-roller belt filter presses, new nitrification settling tank and dome-covered gravity thickener, density current baffles for the existing nitrification settling tanks, new VFD-driven return sludge pumps, rehabilitated multimedia filters, modifications to the sludge blending tank, a new septage receiving facility, a plant protection line with diversion structure and new chlorine contact tank, and miscellaneous pumping and piping modifications.

 

Managed a study to justify an increase in the rated capacity of the SBRSA’s’ River Road plant from 11.7 to 13 mgd through a detailed process and hydraulic capacity evaluation of all unit processes and plant components.

 

Managed a plant evaluation and expansion study for the Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority’s 5-mgd plant in New Jersey, which consists of screening and grit removal, primary treatment, plastic media trickling filters, the PACT/activated sludge process with wet air regeneration of carbon, effluent filtration, hypochlorite disinfection, rotary drum thickening, belt filter press dewatering, and sludge drying.  Evaluation included a detailed condition assessment of concrete structures, protective coatings, and mechanical/ electrical equipment, and a capacity assessment utilizing a whole plant model.  Evaluated approximately ten alternatives to increase the capacity to approximately 7.5 mgd.  Considered attached and suspended growth processes including compact technologies such as membrane bioreactors and biological aerated filters. In association with another firm, currently directing the design approximately $35 million in improvements to expand capacity and rehabilitate aging infrastructure through a two-phase project.

 

Managed a condition assessment, capacity evaluation, expansion study and phosphorus removal study for the City of Millville, New Jersey’s, 5 mgd wastewater treatment plant.

 

Managing a general engineering services contract with the Philadelphia Water Department to provide on a task order basis study, design, and construction-phase services for improvements to the 210-mgd Northeast water pollution control plant, 130-mgd Southeast water pollution control plant, and 200-mgd Southwest water pollution control plant.

 

Managed a plant expansion study and master plan update for the 40-mgd Kline's Island wastewater treatment plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  Evaluating the condition and capacity of all systems, projecting future needs, and evaluating alternatives to meet identified needs.

 

Managed the design and construction of improvements to the 40-mgd Kline's Island wastewater treatment plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which involves renovating the primary clarifiers and existing aerated grit chambers and expanding the peak flow capacity to 93 mgd through the addition of a third aerated grit chamber.  Provided a flow distribution chamber and screening facility in conjunction with the third aerated grit chamber.  Managed the design of electrical improvements to the intermediate pumping station and assisted the city in resolving harmonic distortion issues related to the variable frequency drives.

 

Directed a BNR feasibility study for the Williamsport Sanitary Authority in Pennsylvania.  Evaluated alternatives to achieve short- and long-term nitrogen and phosphorus removal goals for the 10-mgd Central and 4-mgd West wastewater treatment plants.  Evaluated nitrogen removal alternatives including step-feed BNR, MLE, enhanced step-feed BNR through supplemental carbon addition, and fixed-film denitrifying filters, and phosphorus removal alternatives such as the addition of an anaerobic zone upstream of each nitrogen removal alternative and chemical phosphorus removal.  Developed activated sludge models for both plants to predict the performance of each alternative.  Performed a detailed assessment of clarifier capacity.  Identified improvements and corresponding budgetary capital and O&M costs.

 

Directing a wastewater reuse project and separate plant expansion design utilizing membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for the Logan Township Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey that will expand the water reclamation facility’s capacity to 2.75 mgd and produce 0.75 mgd of high-quality reclaimed water for aquifer injection and subsequent withdrawal as a potable water source.  Providing annual consulting engineer services on an as-requested basis.

 

Directing the design of a 450,000-gpd beneficial reuse system for the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey to produce high-quality reclaimed water for spray irrigation on county parks and grounds, and for non-potable uses at the Cape May County Zoo.  The system will modify two of the RBC trains to nitrify, with the nitrified effluent directed to a new denitrification filter and UV disinfection system to meet NJDEP’s highest reuse standards.

Managed a water reuse marketing study for the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority in New Jersey.  Assessed the economic feasibility of providing treated water to local industries for beneficial reuse.

 

Directing the design of a 375,000-gpd membrane bioreactor and drip irrigation effluent disposal system for Harrison Township, New Jersey. Also directed the design of sewer system improvements.

 

Directed an alternatives evaluation and the design of a 1.6-mgd wastewater reclamation and reuse facility for New Castle County Delaware.  Evaluating treatment alternatives such as enhanced lagoon treatment, MLE, step-feed BNR, oxidation ditches, and SBRs.  Evaluated alternatives for the 100 percent beneficial reuse of treated effluent, including restricted access and non-edible crop spray irrigation, landscape spray irrigation, forest spray irrigation, subsurface drip irrigation, and rapid infiltration.  Selected alternative consists of sequencing batch reactors, cloth media disk filters, and sodium hypochlorite disinfection followed by reclaimed water storage and spray irrigation on non-edible crops.  SBR will enable the nitrogen removal performance of the plant to be varied seasonally in response to changing crop uptake rates of nitrogen.

 

Provided technical advisory services for the design of pilot-scale treatment plants to study state-of-the-art biological nutrient removal technologies for New York City, including suspended growth, combined attached/suspended growth, and attached growth processes.

 

In association with another firm, managed preparation of a facility plan and the conceptual, preliminary, and final design of an upgrade to the 10-mgd rotating biological contactor wastewater treatment plant for the North Bergen Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey.  Evaluated multiple alternatives including new RBCs, trickling filters, activated sludge, biological aerated filters, and combined suspended and attached growth processes to replace the rotating biological contactors.  Recommended an alternative consisting of primary settling followed by activated sludge to enable implementation of either step feed BNR or the MLE process to meet anticipated limits for total nitrogen.  Expanded the plant's peak flow capacity from 17 mgd to 25 mgd to reduce CSO discharge during storm events.  Managed all aspects of design.

 

Provided technical advisory services for the design to upgrade and expand the Sod Run wastewater treatment plant in Harford County, Maryland, from a 10‑mgd secondary treatment plant using conventional activated sludge and trickling filters to a 20‑mgd advanced wastewater treatment plant incorporating biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal.

 

Provided technical advisory services for the design of operability, maintainability, and reliability improvements to the 120-mgd Jamaica water pollution control plant in New York City, including new main sewage pumps; new primary settling and chlorine contact tanks; new return and waste sludge pumps; new feed systems for chemically enhanced primary settling; modifications to the existing final settling tanks to enhance performance; and odor control improvements for the gravity thickeners.

 

Served on the value engineering team for the design of operability, maintainability, and reliability improvements to the 150-mgd Bowery Bay plant in New York City, including modifications to the primary and final sedimentation tanks, new raw sewage pumps, and a new residuals handling facility for the centralized handling and processing of grit, screenings, and scum.

 

Managed a two-phase expansion design to increase the capacity of the Little Washington wastewater treatment plant, located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 75,000 gpd to 145,000 gpd.  Facility produces high-quality effluent for a split discharge of approximately 90,000 gpd to subsurface infiltration beds for groundwater recharge, and the balance of flow to a high small receiving stream.  Facility utilizes the MLE variation of the activated-sludge process for total nitrogen removal followed by effluent filters and low-pressure high-intensity ultraviolet disinfection.  Utilized chemical addition for phosphorus removal, as required for the stream portion of the discharge.

 

Managed the design of improvements to enhance performance and increase the wet-weather capacity of the 75,000-gpd Twin Hills wastewater treatment facility in Chester County, Pennsylvania, including expansion of the sequencing batch reactor, a new flow equalization basin, modifications to the effluent filters, and a new subsurface infiltration bed for groundwater recharge.

 

Managed the design of the upgrade and expansion of the Willistown Woods wastewater treatment plant in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which involved increasing plant capacity to 175,000 gpd to meet strict effluent limitations for BOD, TSS, ammonia, and total phosphorus.  Replaced an ineffective fixed-film system with a single-sludge biological nutrient removal system followed by supplemental chemical phosphorus removal, effluent filtration, and ultraviolet disinfection.

 

Served as project engineer for the process evaluation, design, permitting, and construction management phases of the upgrade and expansion of a 0.75‑mgd secondary trickling filter plant in Chatham Township, New Jersey, to a 1‑mgd advanced wastewater treatment plant with oxidation ditches, chemical phosphorus removal, effluent filtration, ultraviolet disinfection, and anaerobic digestion.

 

Provided technical advisory services during a re-rating study for a 2.65-mgd wastewater treatment plant in North Bergen, New Jersey.

 

Served as assistant resident engineer during the construction and start-up of two 0.3-mgd advanced wastewater treatment plants in Hopewell and Pennington, New Jersey, incorporating Orbal oxidation ditches, multimedia filtration, chlorination, dechlorination, and post-aeration.  Provided construction inspection, shop drawing review, preparation of monthly progress estimates, change order review, equipment checkout, start-up assistance, and coordination of operations and maintenance training.

 

Directed a pilot dewatering study for the Ocean County Utilities Authority, which involved side-by-side pilot testing of a centrifuge and 14-roller belt filter press at 32 mgd Northern Water Pollution Control Facility, 32 mgd Central Water Pollution Control Facility mgd Soutern Water Pollution Control Facility.  Also pilot tested enzyme pretreatment as a potentially innovative way to improve the dewaterability of anaerobically digested biosolids.

 

Evaluating the cost effectiveness of implementing a sludge cake receiving facility at the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills wastewater treatment plant in New Jersey, and in association with another firm, evaluated alternatives to improve efficiency of the multiple hearth incinerator.

 

Directed a detailed evaluation of two biosolids management alternatives for the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority’s 40-mgd wastewater treatment plant, including proceeding with the construction of a cogeneration system that would provide waste heat to new indirect sludge dryers, reducing the volume and improving the quality of biosolids to be disposed of, and would require the continued operation and improvement of the thickening, anaerobic digestion, and dewatering systems.  Evaluated a second alternative not to proceed with the cogeneration/sludge drying facility and to shut down (and avoid upgrades to) the anaerobic digestion and dewatering processes and dispose of thickened sludge at a nearby facility with the capacity to accept this quantity and quality of sludge.  Considered capital and life-cycle costs as well as O&M advantages and disadvantages.

 

Directed a digester gas utilization alternatives study for the Philadelphia Water Department’s 210-mgd Northeast water pollution control facility.  Currently directing the conceptual design of the recommended alternative: a system to clean the gas to pipeline quality for sale to Philadelphia Gas Works.

 

Principal for a comprehensive assessment of the dewatering facility located in Newark, New Jersey, where sludge generated at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission's 330-mgd wastewater treatment plant is dewatered after undergoing treatment by the Zimpro heat treatment process.  Assessed recessed chamber-type plate and frame filter presses, sludge feed systems, sludge cake bunkers, drag conveyors, cake delumpers, and belt conveyors that are designed to convey sludge from the presses to a sludge storage facility.  Weighed options including rehabilitation and expansion of the filter presses; rehabilitation and replacement of the sludge pumping and conveying systems; and improvements to the sludge bunkers to eliminate bridging problems.

 

Managed a sludge dewatering study and pilot testing at the SBRSA’s River Road plant.  Managed the design of the first U.S. installation of two 2-meter, fully enclosed, high-solids belt filter presses with the enclosures vented to the multiple-hearth incinerators for odorant destruction. 

 

Directed the design and construction phase services to replace digester gas piping and related flow meters and safety devices for the Philadelphia Water Department’s 210-mgd Northeast water pollution control facility.  Evaluated alternative flow metering technology and piping material.  Evaluated digester performance and gas production rates versus expected performance and rates.  Directed similar services for the 200-mgd Southwest water pollution control facility.

Directed an alternatives evaluation and preliminary design of replacement waste gas burners for the Ocean County Utilities Authority's Central and Northern water pollution control facilities.  Assessed the regulatory and air emissions impact of each alternative.

 

Directed a wastestream management study for the Philadelphia Water Department to identify and evaluate alternatives to improve the handling and disposal of screenings, grit, and scum from the 210-mgd Northeast water pollution control plant, 130-mgd Southeast water pollution control plant, and 200-mgd Southwest water pollution control plant.  Directed the design of improvements to the residuals handling facilities at the Southeast and Southwest plants.  Directing construction phase services.

 

Served as principal in charge of an alternatives evaluation for the Philadelphia Water Department’s Poquessing overflow storage facility to address issues caused by periodic surcharging within the combined sewer system delivering wastewater to the Northeast water pollution control plant.

 

Managed design and construction services for the rehabilitation of multiple interceptors in the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s central and southern service areas, ranging in size from 24 to 54 inches.  Evaluated a wide variety of trenchless technologies as well as conventional replacement and paralleling alternatives.  Managed the design of two trenchless technologies, cured-in-place pipe and sliplining.

 

Coordinated the permitting, design, and construction services for an 80-mgd emergency influent pumping station for the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s Central water pollution control facility in New Jersey.  Incorporated 400-hp variable-frequency-driven submersible pumps and a 40-mgd temporary by-pass pumping system during construction.

 

Managed the design and construction of improvements to an Ocean County Utilities Authority’s wastewater pumping station designated NPS-5, including installation of new pumps and variable-frequency drives to increase capacity from 10 to 16 mgd, new emergency generator, new control system, and new comminutors.

 

Served as project engineer for the planning and design of variable-frequency drives and other improvements for the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority's Millstone and South Brunswick regional pumping stations.   Designed the replacement of existing mechanical and hydraulic variable-speed drives with variable-frequency drives on pumps ranging in horsepower from 100 to 300, new pump control systems, and replacement of a comminutor with a reciprocating rake mechanically cleaned screen at the South Brunswick pumping station.

 

Performed pump testing and capacity assessments at three pumping stations in the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s Northern service area.

 

Evaluated floatables control alternatives for the 38 combined sewer overflows in the City of Wilimington, DE.  Developed conceptual designs for the recommended alternative, which was the netting trash trap system.

Directed hydraulic modeling of the city of Bethlehem’s Nancy Run interceptor and associated combined sewer overflows.  Successfully identified and gained Department of Justice approval for an alternative Supplemental Environmental Project, based on the modeling results, which saved the city more than $1 million compared to an SEP previously identified and scheduled for implementation.

 

Directed the design and construction services for a 20-mgd combined sewer overflow screening facility for the wastewater treatment plant in Bethlehem.

 

Evaluated interim and long-term solids and floatables control alternatives for combined sewer overflows for the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority in New Jersey.  Directed design and construction services for a 30-mgd CSO screening facility incorporating the first US installation of a horizontal, hydraulically driven screen that returns the captured materials to the interceptor sewer, thererby eliminating remote residuals handling.

 

Served as engineer for sewer system evaluation surveys in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, and New Rochelle, New York.  Participated in all phases of infiltration/inflow identification, quantification, and remediation.

 

Managed the design and of a biofilter for control of headworks and septage receiving facilities at the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority’s 13-mgd River Road wastewater treatment plant.  Also managed the design and construction activated sludge aeration tank covers and a biofilter to control odors from the River Road Plant’s modified aeration activated sludge process.

 

Managed the design of odor control improvements to Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority’s Milltone and South Brunswick regional pumping stations, including the installation of activated carbon adsorption units.

 

Served as technical advisor for an odor control study for the 300-mgd Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s plant in Newark, New Jersey.

 

Directed a comprehensive odor control study for the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority’s River Road plant, pumping stations, and interceptors.  Evaluated liquid and gas-phase control alternatives.  Evaluated cover alternatives.

 

Managed the design of odor control improvements for the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s Central water pollution control facility, including covering of headworks channels with off-gases vented to a new activated carbon adsorber, and a dome cover for the new primary settling tanks with off-gases vented to an existing activated carbon adsorber.

 

Evaluated odor control improvements for the wastewater treatment plant in Poughkeepsie, New York.

 

Managed the design of odor control improvements for the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s Northern water pollution control facility, including covering of open channels in the main influent pump station with off-gases vented to a new activated carbon adsorber.

 

Coordinated a comprehensive operations and maintenance assistance and training program at the 210‑mgd Northeast and Southwest water pollution control plants and the 130‑mgd Southeast water pollution control plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Prepared standard operating procedures and maintenance routines; designed and delivered generic, systems, specialized, and computer-based interactive video training; and coordinated vendor training associated with more than 40 construction contracts.

 

Provided expert testimony on behalf of the city of Monongahela, in connection with a dispute with an adjacent authority over flow metering, billing, and operations at the wastewater treatment plant.

 

Participated in due diligence evaluations of several wastewater treatment plants in eastern Pennsylvania, including the Peddler’s View SBR plant in Bucks County; the Twin Hills, Plumsock, and Brandywine Township plants in Chester County, and the Media Borough plant in Delaware County.

 

Coordinated start-up and initial operation of the 1-mgd advanced wastewater treatment plant in Chatham Township, New Jersey, which included oxidation ditch technology, chemical phosphorus removal, continuous backwash filters, ultraviolet disinfection, and anaerobic digestion.  Directed the preparation of a comprehensive operations and maintenance manual and trained plant personnel.

 

Served as operations and maintenance specialist for the evaluation of the 8.5‑mgd wastewater treatment plant in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Evaluated existing facilities to determine treatment capacity and made recommendations for operational modifications to improve process performance.

 

Provided operational assistance to improve the activated sludge process performance at a 12-mgd wastewater treatment plant in Bridgewater, New Jersey, for the Somerset-Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority.

 

Provided operational advice to improve secondary process performance at a wastewater treatment plant in Lower Township, New Jersey.

 

Performed process and operability evaluations of a 10-mgd trickling filter plant in West New York and a 2.65-mgd trickling filter plant in North Bergen, New Jersey. 

Conducted a design and operations evaluation of a 0.9-mgd advanced wastewater treatment plant in Long Hill Township, New Jersey.  Evaluated the cause of excessive solids loss during storm flows.  Identified and recommended low-cost modifications to remedy the problem.

 

Performed a comprehensive operability and health and safety evaluation of two 0.3‑mgd advanced wastewater treatment plants in Hopewell and Pennington, New Jersey, involving assessment of plant capacity, evaluation of alternatives to improve process performance, and recommendations for plant improvements.

 

Prepared operations and maintenance manuals for several wastewater treatment plant upgrade projects for the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority.

 

Performed process and operability design reviews of several small advanced wastewater treatment plants in New Jersey, including a 0.16‑mgd plant in Montgomery Township with nitrification, effluent filtration, phosphorus removal, and ultraviolet disinfection; a 0.022‑mgd plant in Mendham Township using nitrification, denitrification, and subsurface disposal; and a 0.03‑mgd plant in Chatham Township with nitrification, effluent filtration, and ultraviolet disinfection.

 

Performing the annual bond-related inspections of the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority's three advanced wastewater treatment plants and three regional pumping stations.

Conducting the annual bond-related inspections of the Ocean County Utilities Authority’s three wastewater treatment plants and approximately 30 pump stations and meter chambers.

 

Served as project engineer for the final design of the Kin-Buc Landfill leachate treatment plant, which consisted of oil and grease removal, flow equalization, metals precipitation, activated sludge with PACT addition, and effluent filtration.

 

Conducted a capacity evaluation and provided expansion design for Johnson & Johnson’s wastewater treatment plant in Skillman, New Jersey, with unit processes including sequencing batch reactors, chemical phosphorus removal, effluent filtration, ultraviolet disinfection, and reverse osmosis for TDS removal.

 

Directed a treatability study for BASF to determine the effects of industrial wastewater discharge on the publicly owned treatment works in Huntington, West Virginia.

Conducted a capacity evaluation and expansion study for Exxon’s wastewater treatment plant in Florham Park, New Jersey, with unit processes including grit removal, flow equalization, trickling filters, continuous backwash filters, breakpoint chlorination, granular activated carbon adsorption, and ultraviolet disinfection.

 

Provided comprehensive design, operability, and maintainability evaluations of an industrial wastewater treatment plant at Exxon’s facility in Clinton, New Jersey, with unit processes including flow equalization, metals precipitation, powdered and granular activated carbon treatment, and pressure filtration.

 

Managing a general engineering services contract with the Philadelphia Water Department to provide on a task order basis study, design, and construction-phase services for improvements to the 320 mgd Baxter Water Treatment Plant, 140mgd Queen Lane Plant and 86 mgd Belmont water treatment plant

 

Directing a general engineering services contract with the city of Wilmington, Delaware, for a wide variety of improvements to the city’s water supply, treatment, storage, and distribution systems.

 

Directed study, design and construction phase services for a new finished water reservoir to replace the uncovered Cool Spring Reservoir in Wilmington, Delaware.  The project also includes a new gatehouse and approximately 2 miles of 48-inch distribution piping.  This project was selected as the 2007 Project of the Year by the Delaware Section of the ASCE.

 

Directed a two-phased study for the upgrade and expansion of the Brandywine filter plant and finished water pumping station in Wilmington, Delaware.  Assessed conditions and evaluated alternatives to increase capacity from 10 to 20 mgd, with flexibility to meet future regulations.  Developed conceptual plans for the short-listed alternatives (plates, DAF and Actiflo with upgraded filters and UV disinfection, and immersed ultrafiltration membranes with UV disinfection).  Subsequently directed pilot testing of immersed ultrafiltration membranes, the recommended alternative.  Also directed the preliminary design.

 

Directed a study to evaluate alternatives for repairing, rehabilitating, or replacing the Brandywine raceway, a historically significant structure used to convey raw water from the Brandywine Creek to water treatment facilities in Wilmington, Delaware.

 

Directed various water system studies in Wilmington, Delaware, through an on-call arrangement.  Evaluated a high- to low-service interconnection at the Cool Spring gate house, safety and security improvements at the Rodney Street reservoir, filter automation upgrades at the Porter and Brandywine filter plants, and boiler system improvements at the Brandywine complex.

 

Directed an audit of all raw and finished water pumping stations in Wilmington, Delaware, to establish current conditions, capital improvement needs, and short- and long-term maintenance needs.

 

Directed the design of new raw water screens and other improvements for the 25-mgd raw-water Wills pumping station in Wilmington, Delaware.  Directed the design of improvements to the Hoopes raw-water and Cool Spring finished-water pump stations, as well as four smaller finished water pumping stations.

 

Directed the design of residuals handling improvements for Stanton Water Treatment Plant owned by United Water Delaware.

 

Directed the design/build of a new 16-mgd high-rate ballasted flocculation system for the Consumers Water Company of Pennsylvania.

 

Directing the evaluation of water quality and treatment alternatives for the Monroe Municipal Utilities Authority, New Jersey.  The Authority has six public supply wells, some of which have had problems with volatile organics, aluminum and iron.

 

Managing an on-call environmental services contract with the City of Philadelphia Division of Aviation.  Services have included Phase 1 and Phase 2 Environmental Assessments, asbestos surveys, study and design of improvements to deicing facilities, air permitting, EIS support services, and evaluating the feasibility of converting waste grease to biofuel.

 

In association with another firm, managed an Energy Efficiency Study for the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority.  Evaluated the cost effectiveness of solar generation, waste heat recovery from engine driven pumps and compressors, high efficiency lighting, and hydroelectric generation from available head in the plant outfall.  Managed the first phase of recommended improvements, which is waste heat recovery from engine driven compressors.

 

In association with another firm, managed an Energy Efficiency Study for the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority.  Evaluated the cost effectiveness of solar generation, waste heat recovery from the multiple hearth incinerators, incinerator modifications to reduce fuel consumption, high efficiency lighting, and hydroelectric generation from head available in the plant outfall.

 

Directing a plant water study for the Philadelphia Water Department’s 200-mgd Southwest water pollution control plant and biosolids recycling center.

 

Directed design and construction-phase services for heating and ventilation system renovations for multiple buildings at the OCUA’s Northern water pollution control facility and for the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority’s operations building.

 

Managed a total dissolved solids impact assessment for proposed increased wastewater discharge from Mendham Borough’s 0.4-mgd wastewater treatment plant to a Category I receiving stream.

Managed the preparation of risk management plans for the city of Bethlehem’s wastewater and water treatment plants.

 

Managed Phase I environmental site assessments during the due diligence period associated with Philadelphia Suburban Corporation’s potential acquisition of the Media Borough, Willistown Woods, and Birmingham Township wastewater treatment plants.

 

Achieving Point Source Phosphorus Reductions” presented at the NJWEA Annual Conference, 5/07

“Biofilters, Activated Carbon and Packed Tower Odor Control Alternatives” presented at the NJWEA Technology Transfer Seminar, 3/03

“Interpreting Analytical Data – What to the Numbers Mean?”, presented at the NJWEA Technology Transfer Seminar, 11/01.

“Activated Sludge Process Control – Hands-on and Automated”, presented at the NJWEA Technology Transfer Seminar, 11/00.

Task Force Chair and Chapter Author, Water Environment Federation Manual of Practice OM-1, Wastewater Sampling for Process Control, 1996.

“Troubleshooting Gravity Oil-Water Separators,” Water Environment Federation Annual Conference, October 1996.

“Foaming Factors,” Water Environment and Technology, March 1996 (with S. Kharkar).

“Troubleshooting Oil-Water Separators:  An Engineering and Operations Perspective,” New Jersey Water Environment Association Technology Transfer Seminar, November 1995.

“Infrastretching through Process Control,” New Jersey Water Environment Association Annual Conference, May 1995.

“Foaming:  Causes and Control,” New York Water Environment Association Annual Conference, January 1995.