H2M Receives Diamond Engineering Excellence Award From ACECNY
May 5, 2010
(Melville, N.Y.)–H2M architects and engineers, a multi-disciplined service firm, was recently awarded the Diamond Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACECNY). The ACECNY Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) Program recognizes and celebrates engineering achievements that demonstrate the highest degree of skill and ingenuity among member firms. It is commonly referred to as the “Academy Awards” of engineering.
Each year a distinguished panel of judges from the ACENY selects the finest engineering designs, plans and studies prepared by New York State consulting engineering firms, based on criteria such as uniqueness and originality; technical value to the engineering profession; social and economic considerations; complexity, and success in meeting client goals.
The Diamond Award in the water and wastewater category, the highest award from the ACECNY, was achieved for the Water treatment for emerging unregulated contaminant “perchlorate.” As part of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, the USEPA required public water suppliers to analyze for unregulated contaminants, including perchlorate. Perchlorate has been known to cause adverse affects in the human thyroid gland at elevated concentrations and has been detected in many water supplies. Should either New York State or the Federal Government set a standard for perchlorate, many public supply wells exhibiting low level perchlorate could be lost from service. Determining a cost effective treatment technology that could be quickly implemented prior to a standard being set was paramount to the Bethpage Water District to avoid the potential loss of significant source water production.
The Bethpage Water District participated in a year-long pilot study. The testing proved that a long term cost-effective solution can be achieved using a perchlorate selective ion exchange resin. As the District wished to be out in front of the treatment technology in anticipation of a standard and at the same time provide drinking water of the highest quality, the District decided to implement a full scale treatment process for one of its supply wells which exhibited perchlorate.
The Bethpage Water District completed the first full scale fixed bed ion exchange filtration system for perchlorate removal for a public drinking water system in New York State. The system has successfully exhibited effluent perchlorate concentrations below the analytical detection limit. A new cost-effective and proven treatment technology is now available to water suppliers for the removal of perchlorate. When a drinking water standard is set, the Bethpage Water District will be on the leading edge of the available technology in the financial and public health interests of its community.
For further information about H2M please call 631-756-8000 or visit the website at www.h2m.com.
Photo: From left to right: MICHAEL J. BOUFIS, Superintendent of the Bethpage Water District; RICHARD W. HUMANN, P.E., Vice President and Chief Water Resources Engineer at H2M; JOHN R. SULLIVAN, Treasurer, Board of Water Commissioners of the Bethpage Water District; SAL GRECO, JR., Secretary to the Board of Water Commissioners of the Bethpage Water District, accepting the ACEC Engineering Excellence Award.
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