"Environmentally Speaking" - A Gannett Fleming E-newsletter

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Welcome to "Environmentally Speaking," an electronic newsletter designed to provide clients and colleagues with timely news, notes and related Gannett Fleming activities.  Click here for a list of the environmental resource practices and disciplines covered in this publication.  We encourage your feedback and hope that you stay with us as this newsletter continues to grow! 

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Instrumentation and Control Solutions

  • Services

    • investigations

    • design

    • installation

  • Typical Systems

    • automatic filter control

    • automated aeration control

    • data collection/ management

  • Benefits

    • reduce costs

    • improve quality

    • avoid violations

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Environmental GIS

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an integral part of most environmental assessments.  The demand for managing data, modeling systems and generating graphical and tabular output with GIS/information technology (IT) is increasing at a rapid pace.

Gannett Fleming and its full-service GIS/IT affiliate, GeoDecisions, develop solutions focused on enterprise-wide IT integration.  Click here for an overview of our Environmental GIS project experience.

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"Environmental Resources" includes:

  • water and wastewater

  • industrial waste

  • earth science

  • site remediation

  • transportation and urban planning

  • environmental science and management

  • solid waste

  • dams and hydraulic 
    structures

  • hydraulics, hydrology 
    and stormwater

  • information technologies 

  • business administration

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EMS Applies To Landfills Too!

An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a structured approach to evaluating environmental factors/compliance issues while implementing procedural improvements.  EMS can be applied to most projects and processes, even solid waste landfills.  

Just recently, the Keystone Landfill in Dunmore, PA, won an honor award in the Engineering Excellence Awards Competition presented by the Pennsylvania Council for  Engineering Companies.  Steve Rowley of our Lancaster office prepared the project EMS.  Click here to see an illustration of the award-winning project panel.

CSO Training

Gannett Fleming has been selected to conduct training on the implementation of the new Pennsylvania Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Policy.  This has been made possible through our contract with the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) to conduct PADEP training.  The training will include a two-day session in June to prepare PADEP staff and a one-day training event in July for the regulated community.  Topics covered will include the regulatory framework, technology-based and water quality based CSO controls, developing Long-Term Control Plans (LTCPs) and the LTCPs approval process.

While preparing for this training program, two of our team members were invited to special training conducted by U.S. EPA for state regulatory staff.  Fran Albright and Joe Strauch attended the U.S. EPA training on procedures for developing and reviewing CSO LTCPs on March 13th and 14th in Harrisburg.  Other Gannett Fleming staff members who will be conducting the PADEP training include Jim Elliott and Peter Evans.  Paul Calamita of McGuireWoods, LLP, will join them in the training.  

Gannett Fleming and McGuire Woods are members of the National CSO Partnership, an organization of communities and professionals who are actively involved in CSO projects.

Recent Project Wins

The Greater Cincinnati Water Works, OH, announced that Gannett Fleming is retained under contract to provide various water engineering services.

Gannett Fleming has also been selected by Somerset County Commissioners and Bradford County Commissioners (both in Pennsylvania) to provide comprehensive planning services.

Water Infrastructure Network (WIN)

WIN is a broad coalition of government officials and water/wastewater providers who are interested in improving and funding infrastructure requirements.  WIN has several programs for consideration, available for perusal at www.win-water.org . 

Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR)

The U.S. EPA recently finalized the LT1ESWTR.  This rule primarily deals with controlling Cryptosporidium and disinfection byproducts.  

To learn more about this reg's procedural issues and benefits, visit the EPA web site at www.epa.gov/safewater/mdbp/lt1eswtr.html 

We believe that instrumentation and control services are critical to lt1eswtr compliance.

Cultural Resources Enhanced Through GIS

John Martin of our Hammonton, NJ, office and Manager of our Cultural Resource Management Group will be presented a paper entitled “GIS and Preservation at Raritan Landing” at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Denver, CO, this month.  The paper discusses how GIS technology is enhancing the archaeology and public outreach on the Raritan Landing project, which documents part of an 18th- and early 19th-century port prior to road construction.  

To learn more about this exciting endeavor, visit the project site (www.raritanlanding.com).  

Our Environmental GIS capabilities are also a featured service in this issue.

Short Course on Electricity

Brian S. Sekula, PE, from our Clearfield, PA, office will be teaching a short course on Basic Electricity at the Pennsylvania Rural Water Association (PRWA) annual conference (March 25th - 27th) in State College, PA.

  

PRWA Annual Conference

In addition to Brian's instruction (see articles), Gannett Fleming will exhibit at this year's event, which will be held from March 25th through 27th at the Penn Stater Conference Center.  Marty Horn from our State College office; Fran Albright and Dave Knapton from our Pittsburgh office; and Mike Brown, Jim Fuller, Mark Malarich and Ricardo Duarte from our Harrisburg office will also be in attendance.

Our computer-animated exhibit booth display will showcase our water, wastewater, environmental management and information technology capabilities.  Booth visitors will also be able to access their favorite industry web sites or check their e-mail from a publicly- accessible PC.

For more conference details, check out the PRWA web site.  Stay tuned to future issues for our top 10 trade show "dos and don'ts."

AMSA Meeting on Asset Management

Steve Talian from our Harrisburg office noted in his "Director's Message" last issue that the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) provides guidance to help wastewater agencies better manage facilities.  AMSA also holds conferences.  The next AMSA Asset management conference is being held in Baltimore, MD, from April 4th - 5th.  Register by visiting the AMSA web site.

PSATS Annual Conference

The 80th Annual Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) Conference will be held from April 14th through 17th at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in Hershey, PA.  Gannett Fleming will be showcasing its diversified municipal engineering and planning services. 

Several of our technical and marketing staff will be on hand to discuss how Gannett Fleming municipal and planning expertise can benefit townships.  Firm representatives include: Bob Shaffer, Joe Strauch, Dick Koch, Dave Mehaffie and Tammie Sheaffer from our Harrisburg office; Garry Brennan from our Chambersburg office; Marty Horn from our State College office Dan Goncz and Fran Albright from our Pittsburgh office; and Ed Woyden and Patti Kaufman from our Valley Forge office.

Gannett Fleming booth visitors will have an opportunity to win an appointment with our caricaturist during the conference.

Click here for more information from the PSATS web site.  Stay tuned to future issues for post-conference coverage.

Innovative Technology Seminar

Nearly 300 industry professionals attended the Nutrient and Sediment Control Innovative Technology Seminar on February 12th in Grantville, PA.

For more information browse the PADEP web site and type " Innovative Technology Forum " under directLINK.

West Virginia Expo

As reported last issue, Gannett Fleming and its affiliates, GeoDecisions and L.G. Hetager Drilling, Inc. will share a 20' x 20' exhibit display area at the West Virginia Equipment, Technology and Design Exposition.  The event, held on April 3rd and 4th in Charleston, WV, is geared towards the construction, engineering and architectural industries.  Click here for more expo information.

 

Cultural Resource Management Sites

Our "top 5" cultural resource management links of the month are as follows: