Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

LOCATION: Greenpoint, Brooklyn

OWNER: New York City Department of Environmental Protection

CLIENT: New York City Department of Environmental Protection

BUDGET: $26 million +

DESIGN FIRM: Greeley and Hanson; Hazen and Sawyer; Malcolm Pirnie

CONSTRUCTION TYPE: Infrastructure Upgrade

SIZE: 54 acres

STATUS: Completed 2017

Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

Completed 2017

LOCATION: Greenpoint, Brooklyn

OWNER: New York City Department of Environmental Protection

CLIENT: New York City Department of Environmental Protection

BUDGET: $26 million +

DESIGN FIRM: Greeley and Hanson; Hazen and Sawyer; Malcolm Pirnie

CONSTRUCTION TYPE: Infrastructure Upgrade

SIZE: 54 acres

STATUS: Completed 2017

About the project

An award-winning local landmark recognized for its aluminum clad “digester eggs,” the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is the largest of 14 plants in New York City, serving more than a million people with clean water across 15,000 acres. Gilston Electric served as the primary contractor in the site’s expansion to increase capacity by 50 percent with the ground-up construction of a new Disinfection Building and Support Building.

 

Unique challenges included working within a biological and chemical hazard environment to deliver new substations, comprehensive motor control centers, and closed-circuit television systems with targeted signal transmissions and efficient power consumption. Gilston also deployed all necessary emergency system features, such as fire alarms and reliable emergency power through uninterruptible power supply electrical systems. Gilston installed fiber optic technology to ensure high-performing, long-distance data networking, and refurbished the site’s intercom paging system to enable plant employees readied communication. Finally, Gilston provided the power and lighting for Newtown Creek Nature Walk, which runs through the site.

PURIFYING POWER FOR NEW YORK’S LARGEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  • Underground medium voltage feeders.
  • Fifty percent increase in energy capacity.
  • Complete power installation above eight 7,000-gallon caustic disinfectant tanks.
  • Sixteen motor control centers.

  • 4,160 volt feeders.
  • 25,000 feet of fiber optic cabling.
  • Lightning protection.
  • Uninterruptible power supply for emergency electrical systems.

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