Wastewater collection and treatment is most complex and expensive of the water-related utilities. The treatment facilities use tremendous amounts of energy, require daily monitoring of the treatment biological processes, generate large quantities of sludge requiring disposal, and sometimes creates toxic and corrosive environments.
Master planning can help with future decisions, but conditions may be beyond the help of planning. Capital and operational expenses for wastewater systems challenge utilities and municipal budgets. Staffing demands are usually very high for wastewater utilities. Lift stations are often the Achilles heel of wastewater systems and often pose ongoing problems as well.
How can the challenges of wastewater systems become opportunities?
Recognizing your problems in understandable terms is the first step in improving your situation. Whitaker Engineering helps you “diagnose” your challenges and transform deficiencies into assets. Master plans, capital improvement plans, public/private partnerships, financing options, innovative designs, modeling, and effective construction oversight are just some of the tools Whitaker Engineering uses to make a difference for its wastewater clients.
Whitaker Engineering and its staff has used its tools to improve wastewater utilities for decades.