Five-year contract to improve sewer system performance in Syracuse awarded to Jacobs.
Jacobs has been contracted by Onondaga County, New York, to provide programme management services for the county’s combined sewer overflow (CSO) abatement and capacity, management, operations and maintenance programmes.
The new contract extends Jacobs’ long-term programme management role to cover the CSO programme and improve sewer system performance county-wide using Jacobs’ Digital OneWater solutions.
Jacobs has provided programme management services for the county’s award-winning CSO programme since 2008, overseeing more than 200 green stormwater infrastructure projects and wastewater collection system improvements that eliminate hundreds of millions of gallons of CSOs annually in the City of Syracuse. Onondaga County was one of the first areas in the US to achieve Federal CSO Consent Order closure because of progress reducing CSOs and improving water quality.
Jacobs senior vice president Chrissy Thom said: “Onondaga County has become a global model for successful CSO abatement by pioneering green infrastructure and traditional engineered infrastructure solutions alongside innovative sewer system modelling, allowing the county to meet their federal obligations ahead of schedule and under budget. Jacobs has supported the county’s CSO reduction objectives for more than 15 years. We’ll build on that relationship to deliver additional sewer service improvements and long-term water quality benefits for the community.”
Under the new five-year contract, Jacobs will finalise the county’s long-term control plan for CSO abatement and provide programmee management services including capital planning, preliminary design and permitting support for the remaining CSO programme projects. Jacobs will also develop the capacity management, operations and maintenance programme to help improve operational performance of the county’s sanitary wastewater collection system.
This new programme will involve system capacity modelling and evaluation surveys to identify and address capacity constraints and sewer defects, including the use of Jacobs’ Dragonfly and Argon, two of Jacobs’ Digital OneWater suite of products to review pipe inspection videos and prioritise repairs.
