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Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection required the Highspire Borough Authority to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant to meet biological nutrient removal requirements as part of Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy. The retrofit project required a difficult and complex construction sequence and had to be completed while the plant remained fully operational and within a short…
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Looking to be at the forefront of advanced water treatment (AWT) and reuse in Pennsylvania, the University Area Joint Authority (UAJA) wanted to upgrade its disinfection process for its water reuse treatment system. In its current state, the disinfection process was nearing the end of its useful life and consistently incurred excessive operating costs. The…
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The University Area Joint Authority (UAJA) owns and operates a 10.5-mgd advanced wastewater treatment facility. This facility serves the greater State College area, known as the Centre Region, and outlying areas of The Pennsylvania State University. Complete with advanced biosolids composting and wastewater reclamation to drinking water (indirect potable reuse), UAJA operates one of the…
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The University Area Joint Authority had an outdated transformer that required an emergency replacement. In an effort to avoid continuous generator failures, the client needed to safely replace outdated equipment with new equipment to prevent electrical outages and maintain operations. RETTEW took over the project from another consultant who was behind schedule and over budget….
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The client’s outdated aeration system controls and UV system had a history of malfunctions and failure. Poor control strategies and lack of equipment understanding had created a situation where neither the University Area Joint Authority staff nor an outside contractor could control the system. The aeration system, helping to treat wastewater, is one of the…
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Compass Natural Gas, LLC, constructs compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling networks, or virtual pipelines, to move natural gas without a traditional pipeline to customers throughout the Mid-Atlantic United States. Their goal is to provide CNG at a lower cost than traditional energy sources (such as fuel oil or propane) while supplementing or replacing local distribution…
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A natural gas client had developed a unique solution to provide compressed natural gas (CNG) to commercial/industrial facilities that do not have access to natural gas pipelines: offering CNG at a competitive price by trucking the CNG in specially designed tractor trailers. The maximum design pressure for the compressed natural gas piping and trailers was…
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Looking for the most effective way to meet the Bordentown Road Water Treatment Plant’s renewable energy and cost reduction goals, the Borough of Sayreville hired our team to design and build one of the largest floating solar arrays in the United States. The team includes RETTEW, a New York City-based investing firm, an international equipment…
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As a Utility of the Future Today award winner, the University Area Joint Authority continues to look for ways to increase the sustainability of their operations while providing high-quality water reclamation and reuse operations in the State College area. Through an innovative public-private partnership, the Authority hired the RETTEW team — including a New York…
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The University Area Joint Authority (UAJA) is continually searching for new ways to increase the sustainability of their operations. As such, they decided to install a 2.6-megawatt ground-based solar array that will produce enough energy to offset approximately 25 percent of its overall electric power requirements. Because electrical grids experience times when consumption exceeds production…
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