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Completed Project: Bill Sones Road

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Lycoming County Bridge Bundling: Bundle 2

Bill Sones Road, Moreland Township

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce the completion of the fifth and final bridge under Bundle 2 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program!

The brand-new concrete arch spans 32′ and is 33′ long and is located on Bill Sones Road in Moreland Township. A precast arch was chosen for Bill Sones Road due to stream and site requirements.

The stream crossing has been improved by increasing the hydraulic opening and capacity, providing armor against erosion along upstream and downstream embankments, and reducing scour at the outlet by lowering stream velocities through the structure. The structure was sized to carry a full two-lane roadway.

The structure was designed by Bassett Engineering of Montoursville, prepurchased by Lycoming County through the PA COSTARS Program, and the installation was completed by Wolyniec Construction of Williamsport, PA. The bridge was completed in October of 2022.

Check out another bridge from Bundle 2

Completed Project: Wilson Street

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Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program: Bundle 2

Wilson Street Bridge, Jersey Shore Borough

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce the completion of the fourth bridge under Bundle 2 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program! Wilson Street bridge in Jersey Shore was successfully finished and opened to traffic on 9/17/2022. The bridge consists of 11 precast concrete box sections and an end section. Thanks to Wolyniec Construction for helping make this a successful project!

Check out another bridge from Bundle 2

Completed Project: Valley Road

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Lycoming County Bridge Bundle: Bundle 2

Valley Road, Susquehanna Township

Bassett Engineering is excited to announce the completion of the third bridge under Bundle 2 of the Lycoming County Bridge Bundling Program! The brand-new concrete arch spans 16′ and 72′ long and is located on Valley Road in Susquehanna Township. A precast arch was chosen for Valley Road due to stream and site requirements. The stream crossing has been improved by increasing the hydraulic opening and capacity, providing armor against erosion along upstream and downstream embankments, and reducing scour at the outlet by lowering stream velocities through the structure. The structure was designed by Bassett Engineering of Montoursville, prepurchased by Lycoming County through the PA COSTARS Program, and the installation was completed by Wolyniec Construction of Williamsport, PA. The bridge was completed in July of 2022.

Check out another completed bridge from Bundle 2.

Facts About Act 13

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Here are some facts about Act 13 from our President:

The state of Pennsylvania passed Act 13 with the intent that recipients spend the money building infrastructure that would help residents and the gas industry. Many municipalities receive critical boosts to their budgets from Act 13, and those moneys would be sorely missed if they were to go away. Every year major efforts are undertaken, mostly from downstate interests, to eliminate Act 13. We encourage you to spend your Act 13 moneys wisely. Nearly every municipality has a road, bridge or culvert that could stand improvement.

Emergency generators are another wise expenditure for Act 13 funds. Municipal buildings are critical infrastructure any time, but particularly during and after natural disasters. Electricity, internet and cell service are absolute essentials that must remain in service. We now have underway several projects to add emergency generators for municipalities and Authorities; these are affordable projects. Please contact Bassett Engineering if you need assistance with an emergency generator.

President’s Blog November 23, 2018

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Bassett Engineering has completed a wide variety of projects for Municipalities, Authorities, and private clients throughout our 20 plus years of operation. In the past couple of years a number of unique projects have greatly broadened our expertise.

Here’s some information on how naming an Engineer, can help your Township or Borough:

Retained Engineer for Grants: If your municipality has not traditionally named an Engineer, we encourage you to do so because it can help with grant and emergency funding, most of which that involve construction require the municipality to name an Engineer to design the project and oversee construction.  If the municipality has a retained Engineer, work can begin immediately. If not, the municipality often must select an engineer through a competitive process, a time-consuming effort that takes 1 or 2 months.  Such time is not available in the case of emergencies such as flooding. If your municipality has not already named an Engineer, we ask that you consider naming Bassett Engineering as your Engineer.

Bassett Engineering Bridges

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Over the past year, Bassett Engineering supervised construction of our two largest bridge designs to date, as well as several others. BE worked with the townships to obtain funding from PennDOT, FEMA, and other sources. Contact us today with your bridge needs!

Our newest bridge work includes:

  • Back Road Bridge: An 80-foot traditional prestressed concrete box beam bridge for Washington Township, Lycoming County
  • A 66-foot precast concrete BEBO arch bridge for Lewis Township, Lycoming County (2018)
  • Aluminum box culvert for Lewis Township, Union County (2018)

    Back Road Bridge in Washington Township

Wastewater

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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 WWTP 10.8 MGD Operating ✓
LRBSA Throop WWTP 10.0 MGD Operating
Altoona Easterly WWTP 9.0 MGD Operating ✓
Moshannon Valley WWTP 9.0 MGD Design Complete
LRBSA Archbald WWTP 6.0 MGD Operating ✓
Clearfield MA WWTF 4.5 MGD Operating ✓
Gregg Twp MA WWTP 1.4 MGD Operating ✓
Mid-Shore Leachate TF —— Feasibility Study Complete ✓
Tri-County WWTF —– Feasibility Study  Complete ✓
Small Wastewater System Flow No. of EDU’s Nutrient Removal
Millville Borough 300,000 gpd 1200 ✓
New Berlin Borough 200,000 gpd 800 ✓
Delaware Township 100,000 gpd 400
Liberty Area 75,000 gpd 300
Nelson Township Authority 50,000 gpd 200 ✓
Brady Township Northwest 30,000 gpd 120 ✓
Sonestown Davidson Township 24,000 gpd 96 ✓
Brady Township Southeast 8,000 gpd 32

Collector Extensions: Old Lycoming Township Fox Hollow

Roads

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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, Client Project Description Length Year
Shirk Road,
Hartleton Borough		 Roadway reconstruction, improve drainage. 2,550 feet 2020
Ontario Avenue,
Renovo Borough		 Roadway reconstruction, parking lot, boat launch. 2,350 feet 2018
Park Road,
Hartleton Borough		 Roadway reconstruction, improve drainage. 1,450 feet 2018
Mountain Avenue,
Armenia Township		 Roadway reconstruction, guiderail placement. 3,960 feet 2016
Third Street,
Renovo Borough		 Resurface, improve drainage, curb ramps. 450 feet 2015
Erie Avenue,
Renovo Borough		 Resurface, improve drainage. 1,600 feet 2015
Kaiser Hollow Road,
Upper Fairfield Township		 Reconstruction, improve drainage,
stabilize road bank down to creek.		 550 feet 2015
Bridge Street,
Mifflintown Borough		 Reconstruction, improve drainage, sidewalk and curbing. 400 feet 2014
Old Schoolhouse Road
Hartleton Borough		 Reconstruction, improve drainage. 1,100 feet 2013
Shaffer Path Road,
Brady Township		 Establish new Right-Of-Way, new asphalt road,
improve drainage, new precast concrete arch bridge.		 3,200 feet 2012
Park Street,
Benton Borough		 Resurface/reclaim, improve drainage, sidewalks
and curbing.		 600 feet 2010

Awards

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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

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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

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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.

 

Bridges and Culverts

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Mill Road, Limestone Township
Mill Road, Limestone Township

We’ve partnered with multiple municipalities to update many bridges and culverts, from full replacement to repair. We also specialize in bridge inspections, completed as the Lycoming County Engineer for their Small Bridge Inspection program and separately for other municipalities. We have engineered a multitude of stormwater management systems, all in conjunction with the environmental permitting required to place an obstruction in a regulated stream. For all projects, we have developed the stream hydrology, calculated the structure’s hydraulics, selected the appropriate structure (bridge, box culvert, pipe, etc.), and secured environmental permitting. Some representative projects include the following.

Bridge(s), Township, CountyTypeSizeYear
Zinck Road
Mifflin, Lycoming		GRS-IBS29'7" x 25'11"2022
Montgomery Park Road
Montgomery, Lycoming		GRS-IBS35' x 20'2"2022
Winner Lane
Gamble, Lycoming		GRS-IBS29'10" x 27'6"2022
Bill Sones Road
Moreland, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Arch32' x 12' x 33'2022
Wilson Street
Jersey Shore, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Box8'9" x 4' x 166' 3"2022
Penn Drive
Wolf, Lycoming		GRS-IBS26' x 25'6"2022
Valley Road
Susquehanna, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Arch16' x 9' x 72'2022
McCarty Ridge Road
Elkland, Sullivan		Precast Concrete Arch24' x 25' x 10'2022
Sheridan Street
Loyalsock, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Box12' x 4'2" x 60'2022
Smith Road
Franklin, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Arch16' x 11' x 48'2022
Logue Hill Road
Penn, Lycoming		GRS-IBS25' x 22'2022
Fox Road
Tunkhannock, Wyoming		Traditional Beam Bridge106' x 22'2021
Pine Wood Road
Limestone, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert11′ x 3′5” x 41′2021
Mill Road
Limestone, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert16′ x 5′8” x 40′2021
Klump Road
Hepburn, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert15′ x 5′5” x 27′2021
Clifford Park
Clifford, Susquehanna		Steel Truss Recreation Bridge42′ x 24′ x 10′2021
Caleb’s Creek Road
Eldred, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert19′ x 4′5” x 40′2021
Auchmuty Road
Muncy, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert15′ x 4'8” x 31′2021
Cemetery Road
Wharton, Potter		Precast Concrete Arch42' x 24' x 10'2021
Valley Road South
Madison, Columbia		Aluminum Box Culvert36′ x 9′ x 3′2020
Valley Road North
Madison, Columbia		Aluminum Box Culvert41′ x 15′ x 6′2020
Welch Hill Road
Clifford, Susquehanna		Aluminum Box Culvert15′ x 6′ x 72′2020
Tinkerbrook RoadAluminum Box Culvert22′ x 6′ x 27′2020
Christy Hill Road
Madison, Columbia		Concrete Rigid Frames - Gunite Repairs18′ x 13′ x 4′2019
Camp Road
Madison, Columbia		Concrete Rigid Frames - Gunite Repairs16′ x 11′ x 4′2019
Osthaus Road
Forks, Sullivan		Steel Beam with Concrete Abutments20′ x 18′ x 6′2019
Upper Bodines Road
Lewis, Lycoming		Bebo Precast Concrete Arch66′ x 24′ x 15′2018
Shuck Road
Lewis, Union		Aluminum Box Culvert50′ x 16′ x 7′2018
Back Road
Washington, Lycoming		Prestressed Concrete Adjacent Box Beam80’ x 30’ x 8’2017
North Black Creek Road
Forks, Sullivan		Aluminum Box Culvert41′ x 10′ x 5′2016
Kaiser Hollow Road
Upper Fairfield, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert50’ x 16’ x 6’2015
English Run Road
Pine, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert41 x 15’ x 6’2015
Airport Road
Pine, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert27’ x 11’ x 6’2015
Temple Road
Penn, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert41’ x 11’ x 7’2014
Logue Hill Road
Penn, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Arch24’ x 21’ x 11’2014
Derr Road
Penn, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert32’ x 11’ x 7’2014
Barnes Hill Road
Canton, Bradford		Aluminum Arch50’ x 13’ x 5’2013
Mill Road
Washington, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert23' x 10' x 5'2012
Leisure Acres Road
Washington, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert23' x 15' x 5'2012
Shaffer Path Road
Brady, Lycoming		Precast Concrete Arch27’ x 16’ x 10’2012
Barto Hollow Road
Penn, Lycoming		Aluminum Box Culvert32’ x 15’ x 7’2011
Sewer Plant Road
Lewis TMA, Union		Aluminum Box Culvert32’ x 15’ x 6’2011
Rafferty Road
Bridgewater, Susquehanna		Steel Pipe Arch48’ x 17’ x 7’2011

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