WHEE: About Us
Woodruff & Howe Environmental Engineering, Inc. (WHEE) is a full service environmental engineering consulting firm that specializes in planning, designing, and implementing effective solutions for your environmental and regulatory concerns. WHEE will work together with you to optimize your regulatory compliance programs and systems.
- NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- SID: State Indirect Discharge
- UIC: Underground Injection Control
- CAFO: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Our experience and expertise includes:
- Wastewater treatment and disposal system evaluation, design and troubleshooting, including:
- Chemical and physical treatment (dissolved air flotation - DAF, screening, sedimentation, filtration, etc.)
- Biological treatment (aerobic and anaerobic)
- Membrane biological reactors (MBRs)
- Nitrogen removal
- Phosphorus removal
- Natural treatment systems
- Industrial wastewater treatment
- Municipal wastewater treatment
- Water conservation and water reuse
- Land application treatment systems (LASs)
- Wastewater collection systems
- Storm water collection, management and treatment systems
- Soil and erosion control systems and best management practices (BMPs)
- Regulatory plan (i.e., Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plans, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans - SWP3, Best Management Practice Plans – BMP, etc.) and compliance program development
- Air and odor pollution control systems
- Regulatory permitting (NPDES, SID/Industrial pretreatment, CAFO, Air permits, UIC, etc.), compliance assistance, and compliance auditing
- Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP)
- Program auditing for ammonia refrigeration systems covered under USEPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) and OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) program
- Training
- Onsite sewage (septic) management systems
- Technical expert witness testimony
As you can see, our experience covers the diverse range of regulatory compliance issues impacting industry, municipalities, and other commercial businesses. Not only does our staff’s experience include direct corporate management of EHS functions for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, it also includes environmental engineering consulting and design services for various industries, municipalities, and businesses.
With over 50 years of combined, direct hands-on experience in the environmental and civil engineering arenas, WHEE offers reliable and effective solutions that take our client’s concerns into account. It is our goal to provide our clients with effective and economical solutions to their specific environmental and regulatory compliance needs.
WHEE’s staff also has significant experience and a unique understanding of the environmental issues impacting agriculture and food processing operations.
To learn more about our talented and experienced staff, please click on the names below.
