Middlesex Water Company has dedicated its new ozone treatment facility in Edison, N.J. to the company’s vice president of enterprise engineering, G. Christian Andreasen.
Andreasen, over a 40-year career, has lead the company’s capital program and other major engineering initiatives. In his remarks, Andreasen credited the project team and engineering and construction partners as well as the Company’s operations teams who now operate the plant on a daily basis. He also discussed the challenges of constructing a major plant specifically during a global pandemic while facing numerous supply chain challenges during that period.
During the ceremony, Middlesex Water was also presented with a Risk Management Excellence Award from PMA Insurance Group, honoring the company’s organizational commitment to employee safety.
Middlesex began construction of the facility in 2019 with partners Northeast Remsco Construction as general contractor and Jacobs Engineering Group as consulting engineer. The project was completed and placed into service in 2021.
Middlesex Water invested $70 million on this and various other upgrades at the company’s largest water treatment plant to provide increased resiliency and to replace sodium hypochlorite with ozone as the primary disinfectant in the water treatment process. The upgrade will also help ensure compliance with increasingly stringent drinking water quality regulations and mitigate the occurrence of harmful disinfection by-products which can form in parts of the distribution system more easily when chlorine is used as the primary disinfectant. Improvements in electric generation back-up systems were also implemented to help ensure continued service in the event of power loss.
