Woodruff & Howe Environmental Engineering, Inc. (WHEE) is a full service environmental engineering consulting firm that specializes in planning, designing, and implementing effective solutions for your environmental and regulatory concerns. WHEE will work together with you to optimize your regulatory compliance programs and systems.

As you can see, our experience covers the diverse range of regulatory compliance issues impacting industry, municipalities, and other commercial businesses. Not only does our staff’s experience include direct corporate management of EHS functions for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, it also includes environmental engineering consulting and design services for various industries, municipalities, and businesses.

With over 50 years of combined, direct hands-on experience in the environmental and civil engineering arenas, WHEE offers reliable and effective solutions that take our client’s concerns into account. It is our goal to provide our clients with effective and economical solutions to their specific environmental and regulatory compliance needs.

WHEE’s staff also has significant experience and a unique understanding of the environmental issues impacting agriculture and food processing operations.

Our experience and expertise includes:

Wastewater treatment and disposal system evaluation, design and troubleshooting, including:

Chemical and physical treatment (dissolved air flotation - DAF, screening, sedimentation, filtration, etc.)
Biological treatment (aerobic and anaerobic)
Membrane biological reactors (MBRs)
Nitrogen removal
Phosphorus removal
Natural treatment systems

Industrial wastewater treatment
Municipal wastewater treatment
Water conservation and water reuse
Land application treatment systems (LASs)
Wastewater collection systems
Storm water collection, management and treatment systems
Soil and erosion control systems and best management practices (BMPs)
Regulatory plan (i.e., Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plans, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans - SWP3, Best Management Practice Plans – BMP, etc.) and compliance program development
Air and odor pollution control systems
Regulatory permitting (NPDES, SID/Industrial pretreatment, CAFO, Air permits, UIC, etc.), compliance assistance, and compliance auditing
Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP)
Program auditing for ammonia refrigeration systems covered under USEPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) and OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) program
Training
Onsite sewage (septic) management systems
Technical expert witness testimony