Aecom JV selected to deliver NYC sewer overflow storage tunnel

AECOM (ACM) announced that Newtown Creek CSO Partners, a joint venture of AECOM, Parsons (PSN) Corporation and EPC Consultants Inc., has been selected by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to provide construction supervision services for the City’s first combined sewer overflow storage tunnel and pump station project. The contract is part of NYCDEP’s long-term effort to modernize wastewater infrastructure and significantly reduce combined sewer overflows to Newtown Creek, a federally-designated Superfund site spanning Brooklyn and Queens. Under the agreement, the joint venture will oversee the delivery of approximately 3.25 miles of tunnel and related facilities, including underground storage and conveyance tunnels, a tunnel dewatering pump station and connections to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility. Once completed, the system is expected to provide up to 50 million gallons of storage capacity, with the goal of significantly reducing CSO discharges to Newtown Creek.