Water and Wastewater
- Wastewater Treatment Design
- Water Recycling & Reuse
- Stormwater Management
- Stormwater BMP Design
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Flood Damage Mitigation
- Low Impact Development
- Water Supply & Distribution
Altamont’s staff specializes in wastewater engineering, permit application, and discharge quality assessment for industrial and other non-Publically Owned Treatment Works (POTW) clients. Services include the design of systems for wastewater conveyance, treatment, reclamation, and reuse. Altamont assists with the renewal of existing permits and the application for new permits to discharge. Altamont is a North Carolina-field-certified laboratory and is capable of collecting grab and composite samples for determining wastewater strength for a proposed discharge or for analyses and reporting to a POTW or National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting authority. Examples of Altamont’s projects include the following:
Wastewater Treatment and Spray Irrigation
Juice Processing and Production Plant—Western North Carolina: This juice processing plant produces approximately 100,000 gallons of high-BOD wastewater per day. The wastewater is aerated and spray-irrigated. Altamont assisted this client with the design and permitting of the wastewater treatment and spray-irrigation system, design of a force main and pump station for emergency use, a gravity sewer system design, and a hydrogeological assessment of the spray field including semiannual groundwater quality monitoring and reporting.
Resort Hotel and Golf Course—Western North Carolina: Altamont assisted the client with a permit renewal for spray irrigation and beneficial reuse of wastewater from a resort hotel and restaurant. Altamont developed a design for the treatment and spray-irrigation system, designed the force main and pump station, performed a hydrogeologic evaluation of the spray fields (golf course fairways), and prepared the permit application. The system is currently permitted and operating.
Poultry Processing Plant—Eastern North Carolina: Altamont performed a hydrogeological assessment for a spray irrigation system associated with a large- scale poultry processing plant which spray-irrigates its wastewater. The assessment was completed to support a permit application.
Wastewater Discharge (NPDES) Permits
Electronics Manufacturing Corporation—Western North Carolina: Altamont assisted an industrial client with the application for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for discharge of treated groundwater and industrial wastewater.
Textile Manufacturing Corporation—Western North Carolina: Altamont assisted an industrial client with the application for an NPDES permit for discharge of industrial wastewater.
Stormwater Management and Rainwater Harvesting
Stormwater Best Management Practices—Asheville, North Carolina: Altamont designed, installed, and maintains a series of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) on a steeply sloping school property in Asheville, North Carolina. BMPs include rain gardens, a stormwater wetland, bioswales, and cisterns for rainwater reuse. The school integrates the BMPs into their curriculum.
Example Water and Wastewater Projects