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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"
 An
alternative energy project involving the installation of
a Solar Energy System on the roofs of five existing buildings
at the North Hudson Sewerage Authority plant on Adams Street
in Hoboken has won a prestigious environmental award.
Representatives
of the NHSA were in Atlantic City recently where they received
a WAVE Award for Best Management Practices
from the Association of Environmental Authorities (AEA)
at the organization's annual convention.
According to Richard
J. Wolff, NHSA Chairman,"the
solar project aids the Authority in doing its part to reduce
smog, acid rain and CO2 emissions while conserving natural
resources."
"In addition, the approximate annual
fiscal benefit to the Authority from energy rebates, direct
energy savings and
Solar Renewable Energy Certificates is $27,800, even with
a costly outlay of $1,216,000," he added.
Overall,
the entire project cost $2.6 million, which included construction
costs for heating, ventilation and air conditioning
improvements to the administration building and restoration
of the roofs on four of the plant buildings.
The Solar Energy
system uses fixed (non-moveable) photovoltaic (solar energy)
panels mounted on the roofs of five existing
buildings within the Adams Street Wastewater Treatment
Plant. The buildings receiving solar energy panels
are the administration building, preliminary facilities
building, trickling filter pump station, secondary clarification
building and the solids processing building.
The solar energy
system will have a total of 821 solar panels and will
produce 185,970 KWh of electric energy
per year. The energy will be used at the treatment facility.
Fred Pocci is Guest
Panelist on Stormwater Needs At League of Municipalities
Conference
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GUEST PANELISTS - Fred Pocci, Executive Director
of the North Hudson Sewerage Authority, center, is
flanked, from left to right, by fellow panelists Dennis
Hart, Executive Director of the N.J. Environmental
Infrastructure Trust; Mayor James Anzaldi of Clifton;
Robert Hough, Project Engineer for the Princeton Sewer
Operating Committee; and Attorney Robert Beinfield
of Hawkins, Delafield and Wood. |
The panelists
conducted a workshop on "Financing New Jersey's Sewer,
Water and Stormwater Needs" at the 92nd Annual Conference
of the League of Municipalities held recently in Atlantic
City.
Fred Pocci, Executive Director and Engineer
for the North Hudson Sewerage Authority, was a guest panelist
at
the
92nd Annual Conference of the League of Municipalities
held in Atlantic City.
Pocci served on the League's workshop
panel titled "Financing
New Jersey's Sewer, Water and Stormwater Needs" along
with Presiding Moderator, Mayor James Anzaldi of Clifton;
Dennis Hart, Executive Director of the New Jersey Environmental
Infrastructure Trust; Robert Hough, Princeton Sewer Operating
Committee; and Robert Beinfield, an attorney with the firm
of Hawkins, Delafield and Wood.
The panel discussed how
aging infrastructure and dwindling open space continue
to impact residents' quality of life.
They also pointed out that current estimates project
more than $15 billion is needed to upgrade older water
and sewer
systems in New Jersey. In addition, recent state Stormwater
regulations have imposed new requirements on municipalities
that can be very costly.
Pocci, with probably the most
experience in dealing with an aging infrastructure system
on the panel, explained
the problems faced by the communities the Authority
services - Hoboken, Union City, West New York and Weehawken
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and how the Authority is financing the projects necessary
to
keep the system in compliance with regulations. He also
detailed the upgrading of the system completed to date
and the role played by the N.J. Environmental
Infrastructure Trust financing, and the proposed newly
announced project
of building four new wet weather pump stations to help
relieve the flooding problem in the Southwest section
of Hoboken. That project will be paid for jointly by
the Sewerage
Authority, the City of Hoboken and an assessment on
all future developments.
Trust Fund Executive Director
Hart pointed out that North Hudson was one of the prime
agencies in the state
which
takes advantage of the fund's low interest loans,
thereby saving their clients thousands of dollars in interest
and enhancing its ability to bring projects on line
much quicker.
AUTHORITY
ANNOUNCES PLAN TO SOLVE HOBOKEN FLOODING North
Hudson Sewerage Authority and Hoboken Reach Agreement
on $30 Million Deal to Build 4 Wet Weather Pumping
Stations
(Hoboken, NJ) The North Hudson Sewerage Authority today
announced that an agreement has been reached with the
City of Hoboken to finance construction of four wet-weather
pumping stations at an estimated cost of $30 million
to alleviate the flooding problems in that community.
The announcement came at a press
conference held at the Authority's offices and attended
by NHSA Executive
Director and Authority Engineer Fred Pocci, Hoboken
Mayor David Roberts, Union City Mayor and Assemblyman
Brian Stack, Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner, Freeholder
Maurice Fitzgibbons, and Hoboken Councilmen Ruben Ramos,
Peter Cammarano, Michael Russo and Chris Campos.
The
four pumping stations will be built underground along
the city's waterfront at 15th,11th, 4th streets
at the end of Observer Highway. The pumps will only
operate during wet weather situations and are seen
as a cure to end flooding in Hoboken.
The estimated
cost is between $25 Million and $30 Million Dollars.
Mayor Stack and Ruben Ramos will seek state
funding, Congressman Albio Sires will seek federal
funding, and the NHSA will file grant applications
for both types of funding.
The first design for the
first pumping station at 11th Street
has already been conceptually approved by the NJDEP
and the Authority expects to begin construction in
the Spring-Fall of 2008. The entire project is expected
to take between two and three years to complete.
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