Like many municipalities, the Town of Clarkstown was starting to face a number of challenges due to aging infrastructure: sewer overflows due to failing equipment and a lack of emergency power generation; stormwater inflow from surface runoff; and groundwater infiltration through cracked pipes and leaking […]
The Brooklyn Developmental Center’s 10 air handler units (AHU) were showing their age and needed replacing. H2M designed the new units to provide a total of 128,000 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air and an equivalent of 484 tons of cooling (1 ton = […]
When it comes to environmental services, H2M is accustomed to tackling anything from residential petroleum storage tanks to the most severe environmental catastrophes. Supporting the legal and insurance industries, H2M has provided a wide range of site investigation, remediation and project management related services. Our […]
The Circulo de la Hispanidad Community Center was a very important project for the Hispanic community in Hempstead, Long Island. Circulo’s Board of Directors viewed this project as an opportunity to set an example and to educate the community about environmental responsibility—as such, it was […]
Looking for a rehabilitation of one of their three water tanks, the City of Yonkers called H2M. After performing a structural and coating systems evaluation on the 1 million gallon steel elevated storage tank, H2M recommended full rehabilitation of the interior and exterior coatings. The […]
H2M’s design of a new firematic training facility for the Huntington Manor Fire Department allows service members to train for real life conditions. The building is constructed of masonry and precast concrete planks that were used for the floor and roof structures; while the railings, […]
Adding to their Master Plan, the Borough of Leonia chose H2M to prepare a new element to their master plan. A Green Building and Environmental Sustainability Plan Element would help Leonia guide land-use decisions and provide a basis for ordinance addressing sustainability and land use […]
Located on the scenic Hudson River, only a few miles upriver from Manhattan, the 14-acre BICC site in Yonkers, NY was in bad shape. The site’s industrial history began in the 1880s when it was used for manufacturing wire and cable products. A 130-year history […]
When West Hempstead Water District was ready to start developing their digital water supply and distribution system management program, they asked H2M to create a new GIS. In the process, we converted their existing AutoCAD-based distribution map into an ArcGIS geodatabase format. The new GIS […]
Long Island American Water (LIAW) was concerned about the condition of two of its water mains; crossing the Reynolds Channel, both mains serve as transmission mains to supply water to the Village of Atlantic Beach, a barrier beach community located on the south shore of […]
Elmont Fire District’s Engine 4 Fire Station is located on an unusually narrow lot in a dense suburban setting. The existing fire station was in poor condition and had not been renovated in many years, making it more economical for the District to demolish the […]
Serviced by onsite sanitary systems, the business districts of Kings Park and Smithtown are constrained from future growth. Future development in these growing downtowns is limited due to the capacity of cesspools, septic tanks, and leach fields to handle sanitary output. Providing sewers to these […]
Through a grant from the New York State Department of State (“NYSDOS”) provided to the Town of Oyster Bay, H2M is currently managing the preparation of a Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) Step I Study. Together with Sustainable Long Island, NPV, and a group of community […]
Having recently refurbished the perimeter running tracks at its East and West High Schools, the Smithtown Central School District was looking to replace its existing natural grass athletic fields without causing any damage to the new tracks. To meet this need, H2M designed a synthetic […]
The transport of low-pressure natural gas presents a host of environmental problems that must be addressed. Drip water is generated in natural gas service lines as a result of water infiltration through piping and fittings. Drip water from low pressure lines is different from high-pressure […]
The Town of Hempstead Department of Sanitation retained H2M to provide post-closure environmental monitoring services at the Town’s municipal landfills in Merrick and Oceanside. At the Merrick Landfill, H2M conducts semi-annual groundwater and surface water sampling. Groundwater samples are collected from 11 monitoring wells and […]
The United States Postal Service’s (USPS) Morgan Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) is one of the largest mail processing facilities in the U.S. Built in 1933, it was designated an historic landmark in 1986. With 1,600 windows and 2.2 million interior square feet, it also […]
With constant flooding of its parking lot and difficulty maintaining its leaching pools, Simply Lite Food Corp. knew it was time for a change. Discharging approximately 5,000 gallons per day of processed wastewater to groundwater, Simply Lite retained H2M to determine where, how and how […]
H2M has several expert fire and explosion investigators available to assist the needs of the insurance community, public agencies and private owners. Through the systematic evaluation of the sites, along with the collection and analysis of data, H2M will strive to find the truth with […]
H2M civil engineers, landscape architects, and land surveyors are currently working on plans for the Phase 1 East Campus parking improvements at Stony Brook University Medical Center. The construction cost for the project is estimated at $12.2 million by the Dormitory Authority of the State […]
The Massapequa School District consulted H2M to design and construct a September 11th memorial in front of Massapequa High School. Through the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s World Trade Center (WTC) Artifacts Program, the school district obtained an artifact salvaged from the […]
A fire left most of Oak Tree Dairy destroyed, but its wastewater treatment plant was left unscathed. As part of the plant’s reconstruction, and because of new permit limits for nitrogen removal, a new treatment plant design was created. H2M prepared a facility plan that […]
The sewage treatment plant at the Lakes at Setauket condominium complex was beginning to show its age in both operation and capacity. The plant featured a manual airlift wasting system which used compressed air to transfer sludge from one tank to another. This system required […]
South Amboy, New Jersey is a poster child for transit oriented development (TOD). Over the past 20 years, the community has quietly transformed itself from a dying urban center into a forward-looking, vibrant community. When Peron Development/South Amboy II, LLC wanted to redevelop a 15-acre […]
The Town of Clarkstown proposed the development of a new, 96-space commuter parking field in a virgin woodland area adjacent to a stream in New City, NY. Supporting the project, H2M provided land surveying, civil engineering, regulatory permitting, and construction administration services. The finished product […]
H2M is currently performing a pool rehabilitation for DASNY at Alumni Gym at Bronx Community College (formerly NYU). Alumni Gym, originally constructed in 1931, was modified in 1947 to convert an existing basketball floor into a 36 x 75 foot swimming pool, with facilities for […]
The Hicksville Water District faced a difficult task when high levels of nitrates and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were found in two of their water supply wells. The source of the contamination was determined to be former residential septic systems that were still in place, […]
Massapequa UFSD approached H2M with the idea of creating a bright, cheery space that would entice students to stay on campus for lunch, increasing their safety and ensuring a well-balanced, healthy lunch alternative to fast food. The design of the new cyber café accommodates a […]
When Port Jefferson’s wastewater treatment facility was faced with more stringent Long Island Sound nitrogen pollutant loading, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works sought to increase the quality of the plant’s effluent while preserving as much of the existing plant infrastructure as possible. H2M […]
At a time when the United States Postal Service was washing its fleet of trucks at an outside facility, H2M was retained to determine whether or not a truck wash facility would be a realistic goal at one of their Mail Processing and Distribution Centers. […]
West Harbor Drive was a four-lane roadway through a primarily residential area of the Village of Bayville. A large percentage of vehicular traffic used the road to bypass the adjacent business district, and limited traffic control devices encouraged speeding. The roadway offered no sidewalk or […]
H2M’s Industrial Hygiene Division provides a multitude of services including mold assessments, mold remediation specifications, post remediation clearance testing, lead testing and indoor air quality testing. In addition, H2M’s IAQ Division can complete: -Mold assessments. -Lead inspection. -Radon measurement and mitigation design services. -Cause and […]
