Water Supply Services
Water suppliers throughout the Northeast are facing many challenges. Aging distribution systems, increasing iron and manganese levels in wells, and sometimes dramatic fluctuations in rainfall make the job of providing high quality and affordable drinking water more and more difficult as revenues fall and challenges increase. Add to the mix a regulatory climate now more focused on streamflows than ever, not to mention conflicting drinking water regulations, and you have a recipe for tough day-to-day issues. CEI appreciates these difficulties and stands ready to help water suppliers in many diverse ways with experienced professional engineering services you can count on.
CEI brings comprehensive drinking water supply engineering and construction management services to your doorstep. We can help you develop a water supply Master Plan that goes the extra mile to include a cost-effective stepwise plan that provides you with the highest value possible. We provide design, engineering, investigation, and construction services. We work best as an extension of your staff, helping you achieve your goals whatever those may be. Source to tap and everything in-between, we can help.
- Low on water sources all the time, or just in the summer? CEI can help resurrect sources you once thought were goners, or find new ones. Diversions, aquifer recharge and storage, desalination, we can do it all. When you go for approval of a new source, we’re with you every step of the way showing regulators how you’ve done everything you can and still need the new source.
- Are these wet summers we’ve had recently killing your revenues? We can help you adjust your rates to help, potentially adding service charges or conservation rates among other choices. We’ll also tell you what’s reasonable and what your neighbors are doing, all keys to successful rate increases.
- Customers complaining? CEI can provide you with solutions to common complaints associated with tastes, odors and color. These solutions range from enhanced operational practices to water treatment alternatives for contaminants like iron and manganese, arsenic, radon and others.
- Got algae? Source water investigations can help guide you towards developing a smart plan to manage pesky taste and odor problems. Enhancing the effectiveness of your multi-barrier approach to deal with everyday contaminants, and some rare ones, is a specialty.
- Are your distribution pipes old, corroded, too many breaks? We can help with a water audit to narrow down the sources of water losses within the system, testing large meters or specifying new customer meters, finding areas of weakness in the system where high pressure may lead to bigger water losses. Using a combination of field testing and computer modeling, we can work with you to set up a long-term replacement program to prioritize which pipes to replace, with what and when. Our down to earth and custom approach to system evaluation will provide you with solutions that maximize the resulting value.
- Do you have enough water storage? Too much? CEI can investigate your specific circumstances and help you to develop a plan of action. We can design new water storage facilities, or help you manage existing excess storage for better water quality.
CEI offers full engineering and design services related to water supply, including:
- Distribution engineering and construction management
- Storage Facility Planning, Design and Construction
- Pumping Station Planning, Design and Construction
- Treatment Facility Planning, Design and Construction
- Pumping Tests, Modeling and New Source Approval
- LT2 and DBPs compliance plans and analysis
- Flow Allocation Studies and Evaluations
- Comprehensive Water Audits
- Distribution System Modeling Including Tracer Analyses
- Water Supply Master Planning/Capital Improvement Planning/ Water System Studies
- Rate Studies and Evaluation
- Wellhead and Watershed Protection
- Construction Administration, Management and Inspection
- Vulnerability Assessment & Emergency Response Planning
- Dredging and other water supply expansion projects including diversions
- Ground and surface water modeling
- Funding Procurement and Administration