Water and Environment

An Integrated Resource Recovery (IRR) strategy was developed for the Courtice Water Pollution Control Plant and was a first step towards the sustainability of this 68.2 MLD plant. The study searched for technical solutions to derive value from the plant’s waste and to minimize its inputs. The results not only brought focus to the Region, which lead to the IRR option to pursue further into the design and implementation phase, but also immediate improvements with the implementation of short-term solutions.

As a member of our Environment team, this beautiful, six-year-old Labrador Retriever may look like your average dog, but this former explosive detection dog is now trained to find the sources of chlorinated solvents that are wasted or improperly disposed of in natural and built environments. 

An innovative living infrastructure solution, incorporating a necklace of offshore breakwaters, aims to reduce coastal erosion, revive ecologies, and connect the community to the Staten Island shoreline.

In response to extensive flooding from increasingly severe storms, WSP developed an integrated resiliency plan built around flood management for the low-lying Long Island communities.

WSP USA is leading the effort to transform an abandoned rail yard adjacent to the Los Angeles (LA) River into a vibrant community asset, and in turn catalyze a much larger river revitalization effort.

WSP USA’s work supported the coequal goals of the project: improving infrastructure for public access, and protecting sensitive dunes, native habitat and historical sites.

The transformation of two former city landfill sites into 407 acres of waterfront green space, opens East New York to the Jamaica Bay shoreline for the first time in decades.

After discovery of toxic PFAS chemicals during a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, WSP USA managed remediation activities to facilitate the property purchase transaction.

Underground water management held unconventional challenges for a mining operation in northern Québec.

Our environmental liability advice helped to inform a business acquisition in Papua New Guinea.