Experts from Concept to Operations
University of New Hampshire Water Treatment Plant
Take a tour of a water treatment plant delivered under a design-build contract that Woodard & Curran now also operates.
Clean, safe drinking water for healthy communities
Public water suppliers are faced with a myriad of challenges, including increased demand, supply limitations, variable raw water quality, and evolving regulatory requirements. Woodard & Curran provides drinking water services that help utilities source, treat, and deliver safe, reliable water while meeting evolving regulatory requirements. Our team supports everything from PFAS treatment and lead service line replacement to treatment plant design and long-term operations. To deliver practical, implementable solutions, we combine:
Take a tour of a water treatment plant delivered under a design-build contract that Woodard & Curran now also operates.
Woodard & Curran helps public water suppliers navigate a myriad of state and federal regulations, including the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements and the National Primary Drinking Water Regulation for PFAS. Each regulation details complex requirements with an aggressive timeline for compliance. Our depth of knowledge and practical drinking water experience provides compliance support through:
Operators are the front line for delivering safe, clean drinking water to communities. Woodard & Curran leverages our robust Operations & Management team to deliver water treatment plant designs that are efficient and effective, whether our team provides contract operations or not. We incorporate tailored solutions into our designs, including supervisory controls and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and asset management software to optimize operations, support service goals, maintain infrastructure assets to extend useful life, and automate controls. We have experience understanding systems holistically and designing programs that best match the needs of each unique client.
The University of New Hampshire’s new 26,000-square-foot water treatment plant provides increased capacity, improved treatment capability, and full redundancy of unit process trains to better and more reliably serve our campus and the Town of Durham, New Hampshire. We are thoroughly pleased with the work provided by Woodard & Curran and their construction partner. The resulting plant with student laboratory and administrative spaces separate from the treatment process is an architectural showpiece. The facility will provide significantly improved operational efficiency and reliability for many years to come.
What drinking water services does Woodard & Curran offer?
Woodard & Curran provides integrated engineering, operations, and construction services for drinking water treatment and distribution to public water suppliers across the country.
How do water suppliers address PFAS contamination?
Federal regulations require immediate action for drinking water suppliers to reduce the PFAS levels detected in their water supply and educate the impacted community. Woodard & Curran has experience planning, designing, and implementing emergency, interim, and permanent treatment solutions from granular activated carbon to ion exchange, ensuring PFAS levels are undetectable.
What is involved in lead service line replacement?
Water suppliers must first inventory and identify all service line materials, then develop a plan for replacing any lead or galvanized requiring replacement (GRR) service lines. This process includes community outreach to inform residents of plans to dig up and replace the portion of pipe that connects the distribution system to a residential or commercial building.
How do you design water treatment plants for long-term operations?
Woodard & Curran’s in-house operations and management team helps our engineers design better solutions for drinking water treatment plants. We leverage their expertise to ensure the solutions we propose are functional for daily use and optimized for long-term operations.
What funding options are available for drinking water projects?
Funding opportunities vary state by state and project by project. Woodard & Curran has a dedicated fiscal solutions team who keeps their pulse the latest funding resources to help position our clients for success in obtaining grants and loans. To date, we have successfully supported $3.5 billion in funding to advance client projects.
