Kleinfelder Trenchless Project Featured in ENR New England
Kleinfelder Trenchless Project Featured in ENR New England
The ENR article highlights the work Kleinfelder is performing as the lead Consultant on the York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project.
In an article titled, ‘Pump Station Will Cut Town’s Sewage Overflow,’ ENR New England highlights the York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing – a $122-million Springfield Water & Sewer Commission (SWSC) project. As the lead consultant for the project, Kleinfelder is highlighted throughout the article, with technical lead Gus O’Leary and project manager Jason Lavoie quoted several times.
The project, which involves a new 62 MGD combined sewer pump station, retrofit of the existing 30 MGD flood control pump station, and three new wastewater conveyance pipelines that will run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the Connecticut River and passing through a levee to the Springfield Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility, showcases the benefits of trenchless technology solutions. As Gus states in the article, microtunneling “poses less of a risk to nearby critical infrastructure,” sinkholes and ground loss are less likely, and there’s “less risk of losing our line and grade while working beneath the tracks and flood wall.”
This complex project has garnered attention as it’s one of the first horizontal pipeline projects in Massachusetts to warrant an alternative delivery method (Construction Manager at Risk), and it is the keystone of the nation’s first Integrated Wastewater Plan (IWP)that was approved by the EPA. The SWSC’s IWP, which was also prepared by the team of Kleinfelder and Stantec, was recently highlighted by the EPA in a Report to Congress to serve as an example of a successful implementation of the EPA’s Integrated Planning Framework.
As one of the larger and more complex projects the SWSC has performed, it will have a significant impact on the community and is beneficial to the Connecticut River as well as downstream Long Island Sound. As Jason notes in the article, this is the largest phase of the Commission’s Long Term Control Plan in terms of reducing combined sewer overflows (CSO) to the Connecticut River by over 170 million gallons during the typical year.
Set for completion in spring 2023, the project will achieve affordable reduction in CSO volumes as well as replace and create redundancy for critical infrastructure.
Congratulations to Gus, Jason, and the rest of the Massachusetts/Connecticut Area team that have made this a newsworthy project!
To read the full ENR article and learn more about the project, visit ENR’s website, or view the article here.
