TOPSHAM

Wright-Pierce is part of an award-winning project in Connecticut.

Wright-Pierce, a water, wastewater and civil infrastructure engineering firm with an office in Topsham, provided the design and construction administration engineering for the $100 million Mattabassett Water Pollution Control Facility.

The facility upgrade project in Cromwell recently won the American Council of Engineering Companies of Connecticut (ACEC/CT) Grand Award.

As an ACEC/CT Grand Award winner, the project earned the right to compete at the national ACEC level, where it earned national recognition in the ACEC 2016 Engineering Excellence Awards competition, known as the “Academy Awards of the engineering industry.”

The ACEC award-winning projects were judged on criteria that included how well the project outcome met or exceeded the client’s needs; the social, economic and sustainable design considerations; originality in finding project solutions; and the complexity of the overall project.

The Mattabassett project was recognized for contributing to the cleaning up of Long Island Sound by reducing the facility’s nitrogen levels to below state and federal compliance mandates, while increasing treatment capacity with energy-efficient design components that qualified for more than $1 million in incentive rebates from Connecticut Light & Power, now Eversource.

At the June ribbon-cutting ceremony, Connecticut State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Rob Klee said, “Today, you’re putting online an expanded new treatment plant that will handle more water and clean it to higher standards, and hold down costs for our communities and ratepayers.”