Huntington, N.Y., Grants Contract for Green Sewer Collection System Treatment

The town of Huntington, N.Y., awarded a contract for In-Pipe Technology Company Inc. to provide its green sewer collection services to the wastewater treatment plant’s system to improve treatment efficiency and reduce energy and sludge processing costs at the plant.

In-Pipe’s services will also improve Huntington’s nitrogen removal capability, assisting the town with meeting the future low nitrogen discharge limits. The Huntington treatment plant discharges to the Long Island Sound and therefore must meet very low nitrogen limits in the near future.

This project will also be supported by Wendel Energy Services, which will work with In-Pipe to maximize digester gas production and potentially provide a combined heat and power operation to significantly reduce Huntington’s power consumption from the grid. Additional goals of the project include increased rated capacity for treatment and fats, oils and grease elimination.

In-Pipe’s technology includes regularly adding a high concentration formulation of facultative, naturally occurring, non-pathogenic bacteria to strategic locations throughout the sewer system in accordance with an engineered plan. This entails zero capital cost and no additional energy. Performance in the collection system provides increased capacity within the plant, forestalls costly upgrades and extends the life of the existing infrastructure.