The regulatory and technical challenges associated with the design of a CSO facility to comply with a Superfund federal requirement presented the design team the unique opportunity to develop innovative solutions that will provide DEP with an operable facility that can be constructed within the timeline allowed by the Settlement Agreement. The process for evaluating and identifying solutions stemmed from detailed assessments of existing CSO facilities to understand the operational challenges and the design decisions that resulted in the noted challenges - effectively building upon past practice and lessons learned to create a better facility than the last. Once the issues were identified, the design team worked collaboratively with key stakeholders, including DEP's Bureau of Wastewater Treatment (BWT) and Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations (B WSO) through a series of workshop meetings to confirm that the proposed engineering solutions would in fact address the operational concerns regarding a facility of this size, located in a dense urban environment, characterized with old infrastructure. In most cases, the solution is based on basic engineering principles, applied in creative ways to address the unique challenges of this project.
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