Natural Systems Utilities (NSU) services
Water Reclamation
Water Reuse
Although considerable attention is drawn to the 1 percent of the world’s available water supply that is used for drinking, the vast majority of our water is used for agriculture, commercial and industrial purposes and this finite resource is rapidly depleting. Municipalities, businesses, and schools, particularly in the more arid regions, demand systems that not only fulfill day-to-day water needs, but also must simultaneously conserve water in a cost-effective manner. This is indeed a challenge, particularly given the nation’s aging and inefficient infrastructure and increasingly strained water supplies.
Community Wastewater
NSU designed, built and operates the largest base of community scale water resource systems in the USA which transcends a long history of innovation and advancement. NSU’s community district infrastructure incorporates an integrated water management approach that capitalizes on multiple facets of efficiency and optimization that together provide resilient, affordable and sustainable treatment systems. Case studies document NSU’s expertise to address water resource challenges in terms of reducing water and carbon footprint through lower cost solutions.Landfill Leachate Treatment
As a leader in the development of wastewater treatment, NSU works with landfill owners and developers to finance, build, and operate on-site leachate treatment that helps to reduce the costs associated with hauling the material off-site.Organic Waste Reclamation
Community Co-Digestion
The heart of the Community Co-Digestion offering is an anaerobic digestion system. Other systems may include, preprocessing, de-packaging, gas scrubbing, gas upgrading, electricity generation, CNG fueling and digestate processing, to name a few. Host sites might either be a farm, a municipal wastewater plant, an industrial site or an urban merchant location. Ideal projects will have numerous, secured feedstock, good quality off-takers for valuable by products, a secure project site and need for financing and ongoing O&M support.Design-Build-Operate-Ownership
Design-Build-Operate-Ownership Services
NSU offers Design, Build, Operate, and Ownership (DBOO) services which together drive projects towards the best technology, smoothest implementation, most dependable performance, and highest economic value. Because our construction is interwoven with operating and design groups our team offers more efficient project delivery and operations.Design-Build-Operate Services
NSU combines the roles of designer, engineer, constructor and operator of water, energy, and wastewater reclamation infrastructure components in a seamless multi-discipline Design-Build-Operate (DBO) to our customers. Working together with operations during startup allows for a smooth transition and successful operation. Beyond the significant reduction in capital costs, these alternative procurement techniques have demonstrated, there are other important benefits to clients over the more traditional design-bid-build approach.Operation and Maintenance Experience
NSU has an excellent record of maintaining regulatory compliance. During Superstorm Sandy in 2012, all of NSU’s 80+ systems along the eastern corridor remained in compliance with regulatory standards. Not one system incurred a violation. Today’s standards of operating modern water-supply or wastewater treatment facilities require a state-certified individual who has knowledge of chemistry and biology and possesses additional electrical and mechanical skills and management has particular expertise in recruiting and training local employees. In NSUs organics reclamation operations, the company applies remote monitoring technology as well as distributed system management expertise to provide award winning service. NSU maintains a staff of professional operators for contract operation services, providing full- and part-time operators for many clients.