Over the next decades, TransAqua expanded their collection network and wastewater treatment facility to serve a rapidly growing population. Today, TransAqua processes wastewater for approximately over 137,000 residents and hundreds of businesses. This scope requires careful coordination of infrastructure, from interceptors and lift stations to the main treatment facility. TransAqua’s independent governance model—an apolitical, six-member board appointed by the three municipalities— ensures decisions are made with long-term environmental and community interests in mind, rather than election cycles. A watershed moment arrived in 2017 with a $90.4 million modernization of the primary chemically enhanced treatment facility into a secondary biological treatment facility. This comprehensive upgrade introduced new primary Clarifiers, a four-step feed bioreactor, conversion of primary clarifiers into secondary clarifiers, sludge handling, biosolids loading and ultraviolet disinfection systems to meet stringent federal Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations by the end of 2020. When the original general contractor was not meeting the construction schedule, Kevin mobilized two of just 17 staff at the time to assume the general contractor responsibility for the remaining $78 million in construction. By leveraging their engineering and operations expertise—both staff members had decades of institutional knowledge—TransAqua delivered the project on time and under budget. “It showed what our people can do,” Kevin reflects. MAY 2025
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