Somers High School
Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade
Lincolndale, New York

Under the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's WWTP Upgrade Program, JRFA is providing planning and preliminary design for the complete upgrade of a 0.031 mgd wastewater treatment plant at Somers High School in the Town of Somers, NY.

The project involves a full facility upgrade utilizing microfiltration for tertiary treatment for the removal of Giardia cysts and Cryptosporidium occysts, and will include replacement of the existing disposal facilities with primary treatment units consisting of septic tanks and flow equalization, secondary treatment consisting of rotating biological contactors, final clarifiers and rapid sand filters and tertiary treatment comprised of microfiltration units, followed by chlorination, dechlorination and post aeration. Ancillary facilities for the proposed upgrade would include flow metering, sludge storage facilities, standby disinfection system, back-up power supply, a telemetry alarm system, chemical storage tanks, chemical mixing and chemical feed pumps.