Environmental Health Engineering
We relentlessly pursue solutions today to address tomorrow’s infrastructure and environmental challenges. Solving problems and enhancing functionality—are what excites us. Our passion for the built and natural environment is surpassed only by our desire to make an impact—to improve, support, develop, implement and build—to meet societal needs. We strive for excellence in everything we do.
Safety Rite provides leading services in design, engineering, consulting, and the usefulness of water pollution control.
With an exceptionally professional team with proven decades of track record, we have honed design and engineering consulting skills to help clients achieve their environmental goals. Innovation, support, and intelligence developed through years of customer service enable us to live up to our promise.
Our team has the expertise needed to keep people and communities safe and healthy, with subject-matter experts specializing in all the various areas involved in ensuring effective environmental, health, and safety compliance programs and management framework. We work seamlessly with your internal and external environmental and safety teams without disrupting the daily operations of lives and facilities.
We provide a comprehensive list of environmental compliance expertise, process engineering knowledge, and consulting project management capabilities to help agencies and industries meet chemical, industrial, mechanical, and environmental challenges.
Our environmental engineers, planners, and scientists team includes a highly skilled Environmental Health Scientist and Compliance leader, Mr. Mark-Anthony N. Williams, MBA, MS, CSP, CSHM. He is experienced in improving and developing processes that create safe working environments and adhere to EHS laws and protocols. A dynamic, results-driven professional who effectively leads and motivates cross-functional teams. EHS subject matter expert with a demonstrated ability to design and institute global EHS strategies.
We will satisfy the optimization of environmental conditions to exceed the needs of communities and industries in:
- Environmental Management
- Environmental Site Assessments
- Grant Application Writing
- NEPA Planning
- Noise Assessment and Mitigation
- Regulatory Compliance and Permitting
- Water Quality
- Wastewater Treatment
Small Wastewater Systems
Many small and rural communities struggle with aging or inadequate wastewater treatment systems or do not have access to basic wastewater services. Small communities have 10,000 or fewer people and an average daily wastewater flow of fewer than 1 million gallons.
Wastewater is water used for various purposes around a community, including sewage, stormwater, and all other water used by residences, businesses, and industries. They require treatment before it returns to lakes, rivers, and streams to protect the waterbody’s and community’s health, such as:
- Wastewater Treatment Technologies
- Small Communities Challenges and Needs
- Wastewater Treatment Technologies
- Decentralized Systems
A decentralized wastewater system treats sewage from homes and businesses near the source where wastewater is generated rather than collecting and transporting waste to a centralized treatment plant. Decentralized systems can provide an effective, low-cost alternative to a centralized system. Centralized systems may be impractical in some situations because of distance, terrain, or other factors.
Decentralized systems play a significant role in wastewater treatment in small communities. Various decentralized technologies exist, ranging from individual septic systems to cluster systems that serve multiple properties, to advanced treatment systems that remove pollutants such as nutrients.
Nearly one in four households in the United States depends on an individual septic system or small community cluster system to treat wastewater.
EPA’s Septic (Decentralized/Onsite) Program provides general and technical information, funding sources, training opportunities, guidance, educational outreach materials, and case studies. These resources help homeowners, government officials, and industry professionals design and manage cost-effective decentralized systems that meet public health and water quality standards.
Centralized systems are public sewer systems. They treat wastewater in a single, centralized location. Sewers collect municipal wastewater from homes, businesses, and industries and deliver it to a treatment plant for processing. After treating wastewater, it is reused or discharged to the surface or groundwater.
Early in the nation’s history, people living in cities and the countryside used cesspools and privies to dispose of domestic wastewater. Cities began to install wastewater collection systems in the late nineteenth century because of increasing awareness of the waterborne disease and the popularity of indoor plumbing and flush toilets.
The use of sewage collection systems brought dramatic improvements in public health. Today, approximately 16,000 municipal wastewater treatment facilities serve over 75 percent of the population nationwide.
Small Community Challenges and Needs
Many small communities face significant barriers to building and maintaining effective wastewater treatment services, including:
- Limited financial resources;
- Geographically dispersed populations; and
- Difficulty attracting, training, or retaining system operators.
Some communities face additional barriers:
- Limited managerial capacity;
- Extreme topography and climate; and
- Geographic isolation.
We have reviewed several reports and have prepared plans that will adequately address them in short, including the challenges and needs facing small, rural, tribal communities and border areas where there is a lack of access to drinking water and wastewater services
A lack of clean water infrastructure in tribal communities threatens residents’ health, who rely on local wildlife and fish for food and the nearest water body for drinking water.