News: Northern New England
Posted: September 6, 2012
Trumbull-Nelson Construction awarded $11.8m Essex Junction wastewater treatment facility project
Trumbull-Nelson Construction was awarded the Essex Junction wastewater treatment facility refurbishment project contract for $11.8 million. Trumbull-Nelson will be collaborating with the project's designer, Aldrich + Elliott, P.C., Water Resource Engineers to oversee the project's successful completion.
Improvements to the facility will enable the plant to operate more effectively and to improve compliance with its State operating permit. Work will include the upgrade of primary and secondary clarifiers and aeration tanks, and provide new tertiary filters, sludge dewatering, chemical feed, refurbishment of the two existing digesters, and new grit collector system. Additionally, the scope includes new pumps, SCADA System work, associated mechanical and electrical requirements, and a geothermal well component.
Representing Trumbull-Nelson on-site will be superintendent Jon McKeon and project manager Anthony Instasi. Trumbull-Nelson worked with Aldrich + Elliott, P.C. on the Quechee wastewater treatment facility upgrade, completed in 2011. Local subcontractors include Omega Electric of Williston and Thomas Mechanical Inc. of South Burlington. The estimated year long upgrade is set to begin immediately. Trumbull-Nelson currently has similar utility projects underway in Lyndon andVergennes, VT.
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