Recirculated Cooling Water System
Confidential Client, Oswego, New York
Services:
Schedule: 23 Months
Budget: $965,000
Tasks:
- Design and Construct recirculating cooling water system
- Design and Construct storm water management system
Project Highlights:
The recirculating cooling water system features:
- 10 MGD current capacity, 16.4 design capacity
- Oil/water separators consisting of four gravity type trains made up of four reinforced concrete structures
- Four cross-flow cooling towers designed for expansion to six cells
- A blowdown structure consisting of a vault housing three pipes connected to the cold well channel
- A control building equipped with emergency generator, transformer, control room, chemical feed area, skimmed oil removal station, and miscellaneous power distribution equipment
Highlights of the storm water management system include:
- Diversion of surface storm water runoff accomplished by installing new culverts, storm piping, and inlet structures; modifying existing inlets; and regrading surface swales
- Diversion of area storm water runoff accomplished by installing new storm piping to discharge flow to surface swales or new storm sewer
- 6.5 acre-feet storm water retention basins
This comprehensive project won a Platinum Award in the Environmental category of the New York Association of Consulting Engineers 2003 Engineering Excellence Awards.
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