As the existing WHWD Birch Street facility tank reached the end of its useful life, the Board of Commissioners and Superintendent knew that the new design had to be carefully developed, continuing to be a symbol of the West Hempstead community. In conjunction with the […]
Under the Additional Services Task in the Annual Retainer Agreement, the Huntington Sewer District requested H2M provide engineering services for the replacement of existing rotating biological contactors (RBCs) at the District’s scavenger wastewater pre-treatment facility. The purpose of the scavenger waste pre-treatment facility is to […]
The Riverhead Sewer District was required to upgrade the existing sewage treatment plant in order to achieve a total nitrogen effluent limitation of 3.2 mg’l based on the total maximum daily load (TMDL) conducted for the Peconic Estuary Program. Due to the location of the […]
The Nassau County Bay Park Sewage Treatment Facility sustained catastrophic damage as a result of Super Storm Sandy and the associated high winds, flooding, and salt water intrusion. H2M was called upon for electrical engineering assistance and to provide design and construction administration services. The […]
In Winter of 2014, NJ American Water Operations and Engineering identified a combination of planning trends that indicated a possible occurrence of peak demands for a series of 2-4 days, during the system’s Summer operating season, in excess of the system’s firm capacity. H2M was […]
H2M WASselected by the Village of Patchogue in 2004 to prepare the engineering feasibility study followed by the Facility Plan in 2005 and design in 2007 to upgrade and expand from the existing 0.5 million gallons per day (MGD) rotating biological contractor (BNC) facility to […]
H2M was responsible for the professional engineering services associated with the design of two new identical wellhead treatment systems for volatile organic compound (VOC) removal at three pump stations servicing four wells. This project was noted as the highest priority project in the WAWNC Master […]
The Borough of Spring Lake Heights in Monmouth County owns and operates the Shore Road and Black Creek Pump Stations, of respective capacities 0.5 and 1.0 MGD. The facilities are located in areas that may be exposed to chronic flooding, when compared to 100-year and […]
H2M was selected by the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority (BTMUA) to provide professional engineering services to comprehensively evaluate its system assets, existing and future demand centers, special regulatory criteria as a surface water supplier in NJ Water Supply Critical Area #1 – and combine […]
At the Water Authority of Western Nassau County’s (WAWNC) Plants 28 and 30, 7.0 MGD of potable drinking water is supplied to consumers through a series of four groundwater wells. Iron concentrations at both plants had exceeded the established standard and rendered the existing treatment […]
California-based Sunkist Growers wanted to reduce their water supply costs, and with a remote farm property that was going to be sold for development, they needed to eliminate the need for the existing discharge to the property. H2M traveled cross-country to review Sunkist’s existing facility, […]
South Farmingdale Water District was ready for an upgrade to its iron removal system. The existing system had been designed and constructed in 1998 and used a Ferrosand for filtering. Experiencing reduced back wash run times and iron clogging, the District chose H2M for the […]
Completely surrounded by salt water, Long Island derives almost all of its drinking water from groundwater aquifers. Suffolk County alone uses nearly 200 million gallons of groundwater daily. Protecting the underground aquifers that supply that water is a key mission of the County. With most […]
Routine inspection of the South Huntington Water District’s Plant 13 concrete tank revealed deficiencies that needed to be addressed. The concrete dome roof was in poor condition. Patch repairs weren’t holding. Something was going to give. The District hired H2M to design a replacement for […]
Plainview Water District’s 1.25 million-gallon elevated water tank, constructed in 1970, was in need of a full interior and exterior coatings rehabilitation. Inspection of the carbon steel tank revealed that its existing coatings system had reached the end of its expected service life and was […]
Looking for a rehabilitation of one of their three water tanks, the City of Yonkers called H2M. After performing a structural and coating systems evaluation on the 1 million gallon steel elevated storage tank, H2M recommended full rehabilitation of the interior and exterior coatings. The […]
When West Hempstead Water District was ready to start developing their digital water supply and distribution system management program, they asked H2M to create a new GIS. In the process, we converted their existing AutoCAD-based distribution map into an ArcGIS geodatabase format. The new GIS […]
Long Island American Water (LIAW) was concerned about the condition of two of its water mains; crossing the Reynolds Channel, both mains serve as transmission mains to supply water to the Village of Atlantic Beach, a barrier beach community located on the south shore of […]
Serviced by onsite sanitary systems, the business districts of Kings Park and Smithtown are constrained from future growth. Future development in these growing downtowns is limited due to the capacity of cesspools, septic tanks, and leach fields to handle sanitary output. Providing sewers to these […]
With constant flooding of its parking lot and difficulty maintaining its leaching pools, Simply Lite Food Corp. knew it was time for a change. Discharging approximately 5,000 gallons per day of processed wastewater to groundwater, Simply Lite retained H2M to determine where, how and how […]
A fire left most of Oak Tree Dairy destroyed, but its wastewater treatment plant was left unscathed. As part of the plant’s reconstruction, and because of new permit limits for nitrogen removal, a new treatment plant design was created. H2M prepared a facility plan that […]
The sewage treatment plant at the Lakes at Setauket condominium complex was beginning to show its age in both operation and capacity. The plant featured a manual airlift wasting system which used compressed air to transfer sludge from one tank to another. This system required […]
The Hicksville Water District faced a difficult task when high levels of nitrates and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were found in two of their water supply wells. The source of the contamination was determined to be former residential septic systems that were still in place, […]
When Port Jefferson’s wastewater treatment facility was faced with more stringent Long Island Sound nitrogen pollutant loading, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works sought to increase the quality of the plant’s effluent while preserving as much of the existing plant infrastructure as possible. H2M […]
At a time when the United States Postal Service was washing its fleet of trucks at an outside facility, H2M was retained to determine whether or not a truck wash facility would be a realistic goal at one of their Mail Processing and Distribution Centers. […]
At a time when there had been a lull in occupancy at this Manhasset, NY building, the property owner received a letter from the Nassau County Department of Health (NCDH). They were proposing that, through implementation of a water conservation plan, the sanitary sewage discharge […]
If a new house went up on your block, would you bake a cake, take a walk over to your new neighbors, and welcome them to the neighborhood? Not in this case. If you happen to live on Meleny Road in Locust Valley, your new […]
H2M’s client, a global cosmetics company, uses its Kentucky-based plant to manufacture shampoos, conditioners, hair gels and hairspray for national distribution. The facility discharges both sanitary and industrial wastewater streams through separate building sewer laterals. However, its permit to discharge the waste, some of which […]
When the South Farmingdale Water District sought to enhance their existing water supply and distribution system management program, they turned to H2M to create a GIS to meet their needs. And when they decided that they would need on-the-go access to their data, they requested […]
What does it take to revitalize a struggling downtown in the midst of an economic downturn? Leadership, public and private investment, and community support—not to mention a first-class wastewater treatment plant. With H2M’s help, the Village of Patchogue, NY, recently upgraded and expanded their Wastewater […]
The Greenlawn Water District owns and maintains the tallest water storage tank on Long Island. At 219 feet above grade, the tank holds 1 million gallons of water to help support water pressures to Greenlawn’s 12,000 customers. H2M performed preliminary inspection, prepared plans and specifications […]
Covering 1,400 acres and over 220 buildings, the Hauppauge Industrial Park is the second largest industrial park on the east coast. Despite being home to 1,300 businesses employing more than 55,000 people, only a portion of the parcels within the park were connected to sewers. […]
