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Wastewater

June 15, 2016 By Natasha Bassett

Bassett Engineering’s practice is focused on wastewater treatment in general. Britt Bassett, PE, BCEE, is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Only 2,500 Environmental Engineers in the US have earned this mark of distinction as leaders in their area of practice. Mr. Bassett also helped write three WEF Manuals of Practice including Nutrient Removal (two editions), Design of Municipal WWTPs, and Process Modeling.

Mr. Bassett began designing small wastewater systems 29 years ago in 1989 in Maryland, including an on-lot disposal system with a design flow of 5,000 gallons per day for Rising Sun Elementary School. Since the company’s inception in 1996, Bassett Engineering has dozens of small wastewater systems in operation, and now specializes in large treatment plants as well. We have designed many miles of wastewater collectors and force mains, numerous pump stations, and multiple treatment plants. Some representative projects include the following.

Treatment Plant

Flow

Status

Nutrient Removal
Altoona Westerly WWTP10.8 MGDOperating✓
LRBSA Throop WWTP10.0 MGDOperating
Altoona Easterly WWTP9.0 MGDOperating✓
Moshannon Valley WWTP9.0 MGDDesign Complete
LRBSA Archbald WWTP6.0 MGDOperating✓
Clearfield MA WWTF4.5 MGDOperating✓
Gregg Twp MA WWTP1.4 MGDOperating✓
Mid-Shore Leachate TF——Feasibility Study Complete✓
Tri-County WWTF—–Feasibility Study  Complete✓
Small Wastewater SystemFlowNo. of EDU’sNutrient Removal
Millville Borough300,000 gpd1200✓
New Berlin Borough200,000 gpd800✓
Delaware Township100,000 gpd400
Liberty Area75,000 gpd300
Nelson Township Authority50,000 gpd200✓
Brady Township Northwest30,000 gpd120✓
Sonestown Davidson Township24,000 gpd96✓
Brady Township Southeast8,000 gpd32

Collector Extensions: Old Lycoming Township Fox Hollow

Filed Under: Our Work Tagged With: Bassett, Engineering, Wastewater, WWTP

Buildings and Land Development

June 15, 2016 By Natasha Bassett

Cummings Garage and Salt Shed

Bassett Engineering designs land developments, such as the expansion of the Walnut Street Christian School in Clinton County, the Comfort Inn expansion in Lycoming County, lighting improvements for Mifflin Borough, and many others.  We also review them for municipalites and counties.  We reviewed a wide variety of Land Development Plans while serving as the Lycoming County Planning Commission Engineer from 2010 through 2013. We do not do any private work in a municipality where we serve as the Engineer.  However, working as both designer and reviewer on commercial shopping centers, hotels, industrial sites and residential subdivisions makes us better at both roles. Some of our representative projects include the following.

ProjectMunicipalityCountyNotes
Garage and Salt ShedCummings TwpLycomingNew Twp garage and salt shed
Post-Framed GarageTerry TwpBradfordImprovements to a new garage
Recreational Park RehabLimestone TwpLycomingPaved path and parking spots
Nicholas MeatsGreene TwpClintonMeat packing plant expansion
Petroleum ProductsFairfield TwpLycomingIndustrial warehouse and trucking
Pneu-DartPlunkett’s Creek TwpLycomingAddition to pneumatic-dart manufacturing facility
Benton ParkBenton BoroughColumbiaADA-compliant upgrade to municipal park
Terry Twp GarageTerry TwpLycomingEnergy-saving improvements to truck garage
Coastal Mart Rt. 220 Convenience Store Woodward TwpLycomingGas station and convenience store
Grit Commercial PrintingFairfield TwpLycomingExpansion to industrial print shop
Choate Lot 16Fairfield TwpLycomingCommercial office building
Brady Twp BuildingBrady TwpLycomingNew township building
Comfort Inn Loyalsock TwpLycomingNew motel (Not Built)
Spitler RV SiteFairfield TwpLycomingCommercial and/or industrial building(s)
Comfort Inn AdditionLoyalsock TwpLycomingAddition to existing motel
Laporte Family DollarLaporte TwpSullivanNew store
Medevial MajestyOld Lycoming TwpLycomingRenaissance fairgrounds and campsite
Fairfield Rentals Fairfield TwpLycomingFeasibility study of land development including several hundred apartments and townhomes
Catino Fill SiteFairfield TwpLycomingParking and construction lay-down area
Tech Serve International Upper Fairfield TwpLycomingRecreational vehicle campground
Dubois Country Club
& Comfort Suites
 City of DuboisClearfieldHotel located at country club
Walnut Street
Christian School
 Avis BoroughClintonSchool addition, gymnasium, and soccer field

Filed Under: Our Work Tagged With: Buildings, Clinton County, Land Development, Lycoming County, Mifflin Borough, Plans

Water

June 15, 2016 By Natasha Bassett

Laporte Tank 3Bassett Engineering has engineered water storage tanks and force mains, plus distribution systems including pump stations.  We have modeled water distribution systems to identify flow restrictions that can impede fire-fighting.  We have developed surface water supplies on our own, and groundwater supplies with the assistance of hydrogeologists, and engineered treatment plants for both groundwater and surface water.

BE has also provided treatment alternatives analysis, water filtration support and water softening systems, developed water supply wells, and secured permits for many clients throughout NorthCentral Pennsylvania. Representative projects include:

  • Collomsville Mutual Waterworks Association
  • Loyalsock Valley Well
  • Millville Borough
  • Ralston Area Joint Authority

 

Filed Under: Our Work Tagged With: Filtration, Pump Stations, Storage Tanks, Supplies, Water

Roads

June 15, 2016 By Natasha Bassett

11th Street in Renovo Borough

Bassett Engineering has completed numerous street projects including roadway reconstruction and resurfacing, curb, sidewalk, driveway and ADA compliant pedestrian safety improvements.

We have experience with many types of road reconstruction and are available for any resurfacing, improvements, or PennDOT Right of Way needs. Some representative projects include the following.

Representative Projects

Road, ClientProject Description LengthYear
Shirk Road,
Hartleton Borough
Roadway reconstruction, improve drainage.2,550 feet2020
Ontario Avenue,
Renovo Borough
Roadway reconstruction, parking lot, boat launch.2,350 feet2018
Park Road,
Hartleton Borough
Roadway reconstruction, improve drainage.1,450 feet2018
Mountain Avenue,
Armenia Township
Roadway reconstruction, guiderail placement.3,960 feet2016
Third Street,
Renovo Borough
Resurface, improve drainage, curb ramps.450 feet2015
Erie Avenue,
Renovo Borough
Resurface, improve drainage.1,600 feet2015
Kaiser Hollow Road,
Upper Fairfield Township
Reconstruction, improve drainage,
stabilize road bank down to creek.
550 feet2015
Bridge Street,
Mifflintown Borough
Reconstruction, improve drainage, sidewalk and curbing.400 feet2014
Old Schoolhouse Road
Hartleton Borough
Reconstruction, improve drainage.1,100 feet2013
Shaffer Path Road,
Brady Township
Establish new Right-Of-Way, new asphalt road,
improve drainage, new precast concrete arch bridge.
3,200 feet2012
Park Street,
Benton Borough
Resurface/reclaim, improve drainage, sidewalks
and curbing.
600 feet2010

Filed Under: Our Work Tagged With: 11th Street, Bassett, Engineering, Projects, Renovo Borough, Roads, Street

Awards

June 15, 2016 By Natasha Bassett

Bassett Engineering is the proud winner of a number of national and state-wide awards, including the AAEES Superior Award, PSATS and PSAB Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Awards.

37th Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Award
Renovo Borough Clinton County
Ontario Avenue Reconstruction and 5th Street River Access

The Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs named Renovo Borough in Clinton County as the Winner of the 37th Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Awards Program.
In 2017, Renovo Borough obtained much needed funding from the DCED, CDBG, DCNR, and C2P2 grant programs to address several projects within the borough including the Ontario Avenue Reconstruction and 5th Street River Access.  Renovo Borough bundled the two (2) projects together, under separate contracts. Ontario Avenue went from 4th to 11th Streets, this project involved an almost complete rebuild of the roads.  The 5th Street River Access involved demolishing several derelict residential properties and converting into a new community park and boat launch.


American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Superior Achievement Award
Altoona Water Authority Westerly Wastewater Treatment Plant

TheAAEES award American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists gave Bassett Engineering and its partner GDF its Superior Achievement Award, its highest honor, in 2013 for the BNR Upgrade and Expansion of the 10.8 MGD Altoona Westerly WWTP.  We received the Award at the National Press Club in Washington DC.  Westerly employs an innovative and unique process, the Hybrid Bardenpho with Step Feed to achieve near-ENR levels of Treatment without the use of any chemicals. Due to older, leaking sewers, Westerly receives severe weather peak flows. The Step-Feed enhancement of the Hybrid Bardenpho bypasses peak flows to the downstream end of the activated sludge process, allowing Westerly to treat extended peak flows over 50 MGD without upsetting the nitrification process. Hydraulic peak capacity is 60 MGD.  Since Start-up during Tropical Storm Lee in 2011, the Combined Sewer Overflows and Storage Tanks in the collection system have not operated.

Pennsylvania sets annual cap load limits on effluent Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus loads; plants that discharge below this cap can trade credits with underachieving plants. In just three years Westerly and its Sister Plant Easterly have sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of Nutrient Credits. By maximizing the reuse of existing facilities, the two plants, with combined design capacities of nearly 20 MGD, cost less than $60,000,000 to upgrade to nutrient removal.


33rd Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Award
Penn Township Lycoming County
Four Bridges

Penn Twp

The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors named Penn Township in Lycoming County as the Bridge Winner of the 33rd Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Awards.
Penn Township identified four bridges that were structurally deficient and decided to bundle the bridges together under three separate contracts to take advantage of ACT 89 and use Act 13 impact fees in the summer of 2014. Online PennBID bidding was used. Prefabricated structures were used: a precast concrete arch bridge and two with aluminum box culverts on Logue Hill, Temple and Derr Roads respectively. A reinforced concrete slab bridge on Rishel Hollow underwent concrete repairs.


34th Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Award
Upper Fairfield Township Lycoming County
Kaiser Hollow Road Culvert

The Penroad culvertnsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors named Upper Fairfield Township in Lycoming County as an honorable mention Bridge Winner of the 34th Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Awards, Upper Fairfield Township bundled the road repairs and bridge replacement together as one project under two separate contracts to take advantage of ACT 89 and use Act 13 impact fees. Online PennBID bidding was used.  An aluminum box culvert replaced a pipe arch culvert. The embankment was cleared and stabilized with new rip-rap and the roadway was full-depth reconstructed for approximately 550 feet. Installed new guiderail.


34th Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Award
Renovo Borough Clinton County
Erie Avenue and Third Street

edited photo

The Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs named Renovo Borough in Clinton County as the Winner of the 34th Annual Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Awards Program to be presented at its 2016 annual convention held in Hershey in June 2016. In 2015, Renovo Borough obtained much needed funding from both the CDBG and USDA grant programs to address deteriorated roadway pavement on Erie Avenue and Third Street. Renovo Borough bundled the two (2) road projects together, under separate contracts. Online PennBID bidding was used.  Erie Avenue went from 8th to 13th Streets for 1,555 LF and Third Street went from Huron to Erie Avenues for 422 LF.

 

Filed Under: Our Work Tagged With: Awards, Bassett, Bridge, Culvert, Engineering, Improvement, Road, Safety

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