COMPANY DESCRIPTION

            Sevee & Maher Engineers, Inc. (SME) was incorporated in 1985 and currently employs approximately forty personnel. From inception SME  has grown to provide many hydrogeologic, engineering and infrastructure related services.  SME was initially formed to provide hydrogeologic and civil engineering services related to solid waste landfills.  Early on, SME's services expanded to include subsurface investigations, engineering, and design services related to soil and groundwater contamination and remediation at hazardous waste sites.  In the late 1980s SME expanded into water supply work, when we began a relationship with the largest water utility in the United States.  This relationship continues today in New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, where we provide various water supply and water resource related engineering services.  Our business efforts focus on utilizing our       hydrogeologic and engineering expertise to meet our clients' needs.

 

          COMPANY FOCUS

            SME has provided water resource, wastewater, civil, landfill, groundwater, and hazardous waste engineering services to public and private sector clients in Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Connecticut.  Services for these projects have included: development of municipal, agricultural, and industrial water supplies; redevelopment of a 2,000-acre institutional facility into a multi-use business park with one of the largest onsite wastewater disposal systems in the state; design and construction oversight of 21,000 feet of water main, landfill siting, design and operation; remediation of sites containing PCBs and chlorinated solvents;.  Our staff's expertise in these areas provides for both timely and cost-effective solutions.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

SME's professional services range from conducting complex hydrogeologic investigations for hazardous waste sites and water resource engineering for industrial and municipal water supplies to providing traditional civil and geotechnical engineering expertise for location and development of residential properties, commercial properties and landfills.  SME's technical staff has participated in projects throughout the United States and is familiar with many state and federal regulations as related to water, wastewater and soil.  The following overview of professional services helps to describe the breadth of technical support SME can provide to a project:

Hydrogeology

SME professionals have provided water resource engineering design, construction and permitting services to numerous water utility, industrial and municipal clients.  Some of the water resource services, which we can provide, include:

•           Hydrogeologic site characterization;

•           Overburden and bedrock aquifer pumping tests;

•           Sustainable yield and wellhead protection analysis;

•           Production well design, construction, and rehabilitation;

•           Computer modeling of groundwater flow and transport;

•           Drinking Water and Wastewater Permitting;

•           Environmental Compliance Audits;

•           Nitrate impact studies of onsite wastewater disposal systems; and

•           Design and construction administration of water treatment facilities.

Civil Engineering

SME engineers have provided civil engineering design and permitting services to numerous industrial and municipal clients.   Civil engineering and infrastructure related services provided by SME include: 

•           Subsurface wastewater treatment design and evaluation;

•           Stormwater management, design and permitting;

•           Large industrial facility civil design and permitting;

•           Business park design;

•           Residential subdivision design and permitting;

•           Golf course infrastructure design and permitting;

•           Traffic/transportation engineering; and

•           Gravel pit design and permitting.

 

          ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING

SME has obtained hundreds of local, state, and federal permits related to environmental projects throughout the United States.  Through these activities, SME has developed effective tools for use in presenting technical information to the general public and regulators in an understandable style which utilizes verbal communication as well as graphics and computer models.