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Environmental
Compliance:
New Jersey
Wendy Grossman has joined our firm as a senior environmental
scientist based in our Princeton, NJ, office. Wendy assists
public and private clients with environmental compliance
activities, focusing on remediation work for a major petroleum
corporation. She further coordinates and conducts site
characterizations, subsurface investigations, groundwater and
surface water monitoring programs and remediation efforts . . .
Environmental Conservation:
Pennsylvania
[reprinted from The Pennsylvania
Association of Environmental Professionals (PAEP) Spring 2007
Newsletter]:
"The Pennsylvania State Archives honored noted civil engineer
Walter Lyon for donating his personal and professional
collection at a ceremony and reception on March 12, 2007. Hosted
by the Pennsylvania Heritage Society, several of Lyon’s
colleagues and friends, as well as Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission (PHMC) staff, attended the event. . . The
Walter Lyon Papers, Manuscript Group 472, have been processed
and are open for research at the Pennsylvania State Archives. A full inventory of the
Walter Lyon Papers is available on the
State Archives site."
Our firm is a corporate
sponsor of PAEP's Environmental Conservation Heritage Initiative
(see links).
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Local Government:
Pennsylvania
 A municipal manager
for over 14 years serving Hampden Township,
PA,
John Bradley, Jr., is known for his capital improvement and
financial planning expertise. He has participated in
numerous regional ventures and is considered a leader in land
use innovation. Now onboard with our firm, John prepares
zoning and land development ordinances for various municipal
clients which are tailored to the needs of staff, elected
officials and residents.
 Matt Sauers, AICP, now serves our firm as a land use/community
planner responsible for preparing zoning and subdivision/land
development ordinances and conducting land use, demographic,
socioeconomic and environmental planning studies for various
clients. He has been involved with planning, special issue
studies and zoning and subdivision ordinance analysis and
development throughout Pennsylvania for the past 16 years.
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Water/Wastewater
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Fotios Papamichael, PE, has received the
Arthur Sidney Bedell Award, which recognizes extraordinary
personal service to the New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA).
Actively involved in the NYWEA for over 30 years, Fotios is a
Gannett Fleming Vice President responsible for directing
municipal engineering projects and managing our firm's Locust
Valley, NY, office. . .
Pennsylvania
 Rachel
Lengle Govelovich PE, has been named Young Engineer of the Year by both the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Central Pennsylvania Section, and
the Central Pennsylvania Engineers Week Council (CPEWC). Rachel was recognized
for her academic and occupational achievements, professional and educational
excellence, engineering and technical accomplishments . . .
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Water Resource
Infrastructure:
Arizona
 Nasir
Raza, P.E., now serves as manager of the Hydrology, Hydraulics,
and Infrastructure Planning Group based in our Phoenix, AZ,
office. Possessing more than 23 years of experience, Nasir
prepares drainage
master plans and flood conveyance and control design projects
involving "natural" and aesthetically pleasing channel and
detention basins design using robust technical analyses
involving hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport and erosion
setback procedures. . .
He additionally
prepares infrastructure master plans and construction documents
while
assessing costs using a system he authored - the Infrastructure Assessment Model
(IAM).
In addition to IAM (featured below), read our last issue to learn more about
related
infrastructure management
resources.
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 Technology
Corner:
Infrastructure Assessment Model (IAM)
background:
Authored by Gannett Fleming new hire, Nasir Raza,
PE (read above), IAM
is an infrastructure
assessment tool developed for the Arizona State Land Department's (ASLD) urban
project areas.
overview:
This Web-based model is an interactive, computer-aided design
and drafting (CADD), geographic information systems (GIS) and
database system that presents vital project information in an
easily accessible format for planning and appraisals.
Specifically, IAM provides a description of costs, documents,
photographs and an overall graphic display of land use plans,
roadways, water, sewer and drainage infrastructure.
features:
- identifies major infrastructure requirements for:
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Drainage/Wash Corridors
- Roadways
- Water distribution
- Wastewater distribution
- Reclaimed water distribution
for more information:
Contact Hydrology, Hydraulics and Infrastructure Planning
Group Manager,
Nasir Raza, PE. |
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ACEC New York Awards
Several Gannett Fleming
projects have been recognized in the American Council of Engineering Companies
of New York (ACEC/NY) 2007 Engineering Excellence Awards Program.
Catskill Watershed
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Concepts included a multi-level
intake and curtain baffle at the Schoharie Reservoir and the first-ever linked
water quantity/ turbidity computer model. This custom-designed tool can
optimize operations throughout the entire watershed. |
Receiving an ACEC/NY Diamond Award
(the program's highest honor), the Catskill Turbidity Control Studies identified
ways to reduce turbidity in the Catskill reservoirs (located in New York's
Catskill Watershed).
As part of this New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP)
project, the Gannett Fleming/Hazen & Sawyer Joint Venture
(JV) developed several innovative conceptual designs.
By effectively controlling turbidity, the NYCDEP will continue to ensure that a filtration plant is not required to treat the Catskill supply.
This source provides 40 percent of New York City's drinking water. Contact Project Manager,
Fotios Papamichael, PE, [bio] for more information.
Gilboa
Dam
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Originally put into service in 1927 in New
York's Catskills Mountains, Gilboa Dam consists of a
700-foot-long
earth embankment and a 180-foot-high, 1,324-foot-long cyclopean
concrete spillway. |
Another ACEC/NY Diamond Award winner (and Gannett Fleming/
Hazen & Sawyer JV), the Gilboa Dam Interim Stability Improvements
Project focused on improving the dam's structural stability. This
assignment was completed prior to a major
reconstruction project planned for 2008 through 2012.
Our firm led the design on the $25 million interim
rehabilitation effort, which was implemented on an emergency, fast- track
schedule. Design was completed within 3 months; construction within 9
months. Contact Project Manager,
Rod Holderbaum, PE, for more information.
Northport Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
The Village of Northport also received a Gold Award in the
ACEC/NY competition for upgrading its wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
Led by a Gannett Fleming multidisciplinary team, these improvements ensured
Northport's compliance with new nitrogen discharge limits established to improve the
waters of Northport Harbor.
A practical, innovative and staged construction plan
limited disruption to the plant's normal operations and enabled Northport to keep its
beaches open during the upgrades. The WWTP discharges into the Long Island
Sound.
Contact Project Manager,
Stephen Hadjiyane, PE, [bio]. Also read our Regs/Programs
for the latest Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Strategy amendments.
Georgia
Waterworks:
A Piece of American History
First constructed in 1899, the Highland
Avenue Water Treatment Plant in Augusta, GA, is one of the oldest
filtration plants in the country and an important part of Augusta's
waterworks history. The plant recently underwent a 15 mgd
expansion, its first major expansion in the last 20 years, which
will improve reliability for the next 20 to 30 years.
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The plant's former tub filters were some of the
first of their kind in the country. The original building that
housed the filters still stands and will remain a landmark as part
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Our firm has assisted the Augusta Utilities Department (AUD) on plant design for
past four years
(see our Spring, 2002, edition) and will provide specialized
assistance for the next three years as plant improvements are
made. Design challenges included:
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limited real estate for expansion;
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old and congested piping;
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continuous plant operation;
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and traffic flow on a major city street that runs
through the plant.
Contact Project Manager,
Tom Clark, PE,
for more information.
Abandoned Mine Land
(AML) Funding:
Implementing Statewide Change
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PADEP indicates that more than two billion tons of
waste coal piles exist statewide and that approximately 6,200 miles
of rivers and streams are further polluted or degraded by acid mine
discharge.
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According to
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP),
Pennsylvania has more than 180,000 acres of unmarked shafts, unstable cliffs,
water-filled pits and abandoned equipment and buildings. Thanks to a
15-year extension of the federal AML Trust Fund, the state with the biggest AML
challenges will receive more than $1 billion over the next 15 years to reclaim
abandoned mines.
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Our firm's
ongoing commitment to the beneficial use/reuse of organic wastes
such as soil amendments uniquely positions us to specify and design
AML resoiling projects.
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In order to achieve success, individuals,
organizations, mineral industries and regulatory agencies must work together to
formulate plans which integrate abandoned mine reclamation with end-use
development. Gannett Fleming's Mining and Reclamation Group has
specialized in such sustainable solutions for over 25 years.
PADEP has a long-term outreach strategy in place to
meet with affected stakeholders and further develop its abandoned mine
reclamation program. Contact
Vice President and Clearfield, PA, Office Manager,
Jeff Ream, PE, for more
information.
Read papers/presentations for more on Jeff's stormwater
efforts.
Nutrient Reduction
Adopted Strategy Changes
As reported last Fall, our firm has been an active stakeholder in Pennsylvania's "Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy (Strategy)."
Major changes that have been accepted by the Strategy Steering Committee and adopted
by PADEP are as follows:
- Each wastewater treatment facility will be assigned a cap load, in
pounds, that cannot be exceeded in a 12-month period. The cap
will be calculated based on 6 mg/L total nitrogen (TN) and 0.8 mg/L total
phosphorus (TP), in addition to the facility's design flow.
- The original Strategy required all wastewater treatment facilities with
a 2010 flow in excess of 0.4 MGD to have nutrient reduction in place by
January 1, 2010. Requiring approximately 184 public-operated treatment
works (POTWs) to plan, design and construct nutrient reduction improvements
over the same three-year period was not practical. Consequently, the
revised policy will implement a phased nutrient reduction approach:
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will address the 63-point discharges
with the highest TN-delivered loads to the Chesapeake Bay.
These facilities will be required to initiate operations by October
1, 2010.
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will focus on the next 52 and
remaining 70 significant dischargers respectively, which will be
required to initiate operations by October 1, 2012, and October 1,
2013, respectively.
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will target facilities that have
been defined as non-significant point sources with flows of < 0.4 MGD. These facilities will be required to monitor for TN and TP as
their NPDES permits are renewed until future cap loads are
established. |
Contact
Senior Process Designer,
Dale Shope,
PE, for more nutrient reduction strategy information.
Compliance Archaeology
New Jersey John Martin, manager of our firm's Cultural
Resources Management Group based in Mount Laurel, NJ, will be publishing an
article addressing compliance archaeology in this year's "Bulletin of the
Archeological Society of New Jersey."
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There is a general consensus that
New Jersey archaeological requirements need adjusted as a result of
the knowledge gained and data collected since their adoption in the
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A recent Society panelist, John
addresses current state archaeological survey and testing standards
and problems associated with either too strict or too loose an
adherence to the requirements.
Contact
John to request a paper abstract.
Stormwater
Best Management Practices (BMP)
Pennsylvania
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The focus of the manual is to
assist the development community with Federal Clean Water Act and
Pennsylvania Clean Stream compliance. |
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) "Stormwater BMP
Manual Training Session" has been ongoing throughout the state in order to
introduce the development community to the PA Stormwater BMP Manual.
This guide emphasizes low-impact design and infiltration BMP measures that will
redefine the way development is approached statewide.
In addition to training session attendance, Jeff Ream, PE, delivered a stormwater presentation to
the Chamber of Business and Industry for Centre County, PA (CBICC). Jeff
provided
practical guidelines for stormwater design, discussing the relationship between
land use and water. He further emphasized comprehensive planning and
reducing impacts from development.
To learn more about this subject, surf
the PADEP web site (links).
Contact
Jeff for more
on our firm's integrated stormwater solutions.
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Abandoned
Mine Lands
(U.S.
Department of the Interior)
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Arizona State
Land Department
(Infrastructure
Assessment Model)
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GFPDC
(Design-Build)
» PAEP
Conservation Heritage Program
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PADEP Stormwater
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