North Hudson Sewerage Authority

From left to right David A. Raymond, ACEC President & CEO; Jim Howey, CH2M HILL Project Director; Bill McMillin, CH2M HILL Senior Technologist; Dr. Richard J. Wolff, NHSA Chairman; Fredric J. Pocci, NHSA Executive Director; Gary Fournier, CH2M HILL-OMI Project Director; and Orrin B. MacMurray, Former ACEC Chairman

American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recognizes
outstanding engineering achievement at its annual conference.

Washington, D.C. On April 29, 2008, the North Hudson
Sewerage Authority (NHSA) and CH2M HILL were honored with a
National ACEC Engineering Excellence Honor Award for their
collaboration in implementing innovative technologies to support Gold
Coast development in Hudson County, NJ. This award was preceded
by a New Jersey ACEC Engineering Excellence Honor Award in
December 2007.

For many years, Hudson County communities in New Jersey along
the Hudson River had unsightly shorelines of derelict piers or working port
areas with no recreational access. Today, this area is experiencing
high-level growth and green-space development. However, the
communities with a population of 145,000 are served by a combined
sewer system that is over 150 years old that overflows to the Hudson
River at several outfalls during wet weather.

The Authority is employing traditional methods and innovative
technologies to implement CSO controls required by the State of
New Jersey. The Authority's permit includes a requirement to eliminate
discharges of solids and floatables greater than a half inch in diameter to
New Jersey's water resources. The Authority was challenged to develop
and implement controls on CSO discharges beneath new open spaces,
tree-lined esplanades, and luxury developments along New Jersey's Gold
Coast.

The Authority has overcome a number of unique design, permitting,
funding, and construction challenges. The designs feature an innovative
CSO screening technology developed by CH2M HILL. It is a patented
solids and floatables control technology that can be applied over a wide
performance range that has minimal aesthetic impacts on the community.
It is ideal for deployment where overflows are infrequent yet still require a
minimum level of treatment to protect aesthetics.

The Authority started construction work on its $40,000,000
CSO capital program in spring 2002, which includes seven screening
facilities of unique design, one proprietary pressurized vortex separation
facility, two CSO outfall consolidations, and other related work. CH2M
HILL performed planning, design, construction management, and other
oversight of the work, which is being accomplished through 11 separate
construction projects. The Authority has constructed and is now operating
CH2M HILL's patented technology at several of its CSOs, successfully
integrated with the community's social, economic, and recreational goals.

"For the Authority, nothing is more important than our
commitment to the health and well-being of the Hudson River, one of the
nation's greatest waterways," said Dr. Richard J. Wolff, Chairman of the
North Hudson Sewerage Authority. "With this innovative design,
CH2M HILL, our partners for 20 years, has made another significant
contribution to this effort. It gives us tremendous satisfaction to see people
fishing again from the piers on the Hudson River in the shadows of
Manhattan's skyscrapers, knowing that we -- the Authority and CH2M
HILL -- have together played a major part in the reclamation of the River"