Jeremy Howard, Author at AquaPoint

Introducing AquaPoint’s YouTube Channel

Just wanted to share a couple of important links with you now that we are all set up on YouTube! First – click here to head to our channel – We currently have three videos up but should have a few more up by the beginning of next month. Please subscribe as we plan to…

Special Post from AquaPoint’s Founder: Craig Lindell

Decentralized wastewater treatment remains anathema to the orthodoxy of Point Source Water Pollution Control and onsite codes. The irony is that decentralized wastewater treatment, which includes alternative collection, treatment and disposal systems, are actually the default options when the two prevalent codes are not able to address the site limitations. These alternatives have been used…

Back in the Day…

I know Throwback Thursday isn’t until tomorrow, but maybe we can make “Wayback Wednesday a thing?” We are in the process of building out a historical timeline for our website and came across some absolute gems that we wanted to share. Quality might not be the best, but we just couldn’t wait to put a…

Luxurious Connecticut Apartments & Wastewater

A few years back, developers were in need of a wastewater treatment solution for their state-of-the-art apartments in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The developers of Post & Main Apartments, 186 1 & 2 bedroom garden style apartments spread over 10 acres on the Connecticut Shoreline, went above and beyond to give each apartment a luxurious feel…

Sustainable Development in the Atlanta Suburbs

Serenbe, a “New Urbanism” neighborhood in the Chattahoochee Hills about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta, faced some severe wastewater challenges about 15 years into their development. As a result, Integrated Science & Engineering (ISE) reached out to AquaPoint to assist with the solution. While AquaPoint had several installations in the region, we had never worked…

Tioga Downs Casino Resort Wastewater Upgrade

When the Owner of Tioga Downs won the rights to build out a full casino in 2016, he added a 160-room hotel and several restaurants, along with more gaming space. In addition to nearly doubling the daily flow rate, the Owner was faced with having to meet the new enhanced nutrient removal effluent (ENR) standards,…

AquaPoint & Aqua America Collaboration

Aqua America, a national wastewater utility company that services around three million people throughout the United States, faced some real challenges in early 2017 with a system they owned in the Beau Rivage community of Wilmington, North Carolina. Not only had the existing plant become obsolete, but in addition there was substantially increased daily flow…

Nitrogen Reduction on Cape Cod

When the owner of a marina overlooking Buzzards Bay in Cataumet (a small area of Bourne, MA on Cape Cod) decided to develop 15 new luxury townhomes, he knew wastewater would be a central issue. Over the years, he noticed large algae blooms had developed in the bay due to high nitrogen loading from the…

Clear as Drinking Water

We wanted to share a photo of some recent influent/effluent samples from one of our wastewater treatment systems at Parker Terrace, a housing development in Easton, Massachusetts. The inception of this system dates back to 2009, when the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection (MADEP) determined that the communities three conventional septic systems had failed and…

Wastewater and Governing Systems

AquaPoint’s Founder, Craig Lindell wrote a compelling article for the January edition of WE&T magazine along with Michael Hines, founder of the Southeast Environmental Engineering LLC. The article dives into the need to shift wastewater from a perceived pollutant to a resource. WE&T is one of the Water Environment Federation’s monthly publications. The Water Environment Federation was…