News & Events

Every five years, the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) and New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA) hold a joint spring meeting, bringing together water quality professionals from across the Northeast. Our water & wastewater team will participate as presenters and/or moderators in several sessions, listed below. To learn more information about this conference, or to register, visit NEWEA’s website.

Technical Sessions

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Sustainability – Meaning and Metrics – NEWEA and NYWEA Sustainability Committees

Wayne Bates, Tighe & Bond; Courtney Eaton, Kleinfelder
1:30 pm-2:30 pm

Planning and Piloting New England’s First Granular Activated Sludge Plant to Provide Nitrogen Removal, Improve Plant Resiliency, and Reduce Combined Sewer Overflows on a Small Site

Frederick Mueller, Kyle Coolidge, Tighe & Bond; Howard Carter, Stacy Thompson, Saco, Maine WRRF
3:30 pm

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Now We Are in Over Our Heads! A New Deep Outfall at the Kingston WWTP

Erin K. Moore, David Seche, Tighe & Bond; David Railsback, Schnabel Engineering; John Schultheis, Allen Winchell, City of Kingston
11:30 am

Out with the Old, in with the New: Challenges and Efficiencies of Decontaminating, Upgrading and Storm Hardening a 50-Year-Old Wastewater Pump Station

Ryan Palzere, Tighe & Bond, Inc.; Kiari Williams, Town of Southington
11:00 am

Challenges in Upgrading the City of Chicopee’s Largest Wastewater Pump Station

Joe Popielarczyk, Tighe & Bond; Quinn Lonczak, City of Chicopee
11:30 am

Benefits of 3D Laser Survey in the Design of Vertical Upgrades

Kyle Coolidge and Sam Taugher, Tighe & Bond
3:30 pm

Friday, June 9, 2023

Constructing Confidence in the Field

Sydney Lewis, Tighe & Bond
10:30 am

View the descriptions of the presentations in the NEWEA/NYWEA Conference program.