Florida county contracts with Tetra Tech and GBB

Florida county contracts with Tetra Tech and GBB
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The solid waste management consulting firm Gershman, Brickner & Bratton Inc. (GBB), headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, has announced it is assisting Lee County, Florida, with its integrated waste management system (IWMS) expansion project as a subcontractor to the consulting and engineering firm Tetra Tech Inc. Pasadena, California.

The project team will perform a waste characterization study, evaluate the county’s current system, review regional systems and national best practices, evaluate available technologies, a needs forecast and an analysis of options.

Once the options are defined and analyzed, the project team will work with Lee County to group them into several system scenarios that will be fully described and analyzed. Internal workshops and meetings with County management and its Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) as well as a public involvement process to both inform and gain input to the direction the County should head in the future are also planned. 

“The BoCC was seeking the services of consultants that can bring expertise, fresh perspectives and forward thinking to the process and can envision how the existing system can evolve to best serve the county’s citizens over the next 20 years,” says Keith Howard, Lee County’ Solid Waste Division director. “The Tetra Tech/GBB team brings to the table extensive complementary expertise., and we are excited to be working hand-in-hand with them to prepare a blueprint to address our significant long-term needs to deal with the [population] growth expected in Lee County.” 

“The county’s integrated solid waste system that provides and administers collection, recycling, processing, waste-to-energy, landfill and hazardous chemicals management has been well managed and administered since the early 1990s and operated under an enterprise fund,” says GBB Senior Vice President John Carlton. “Planning for the long-term, we will identify an extensive array of alternatives, both policy and infrastructure, and then work with the county to select different system approaches that will be carefully analyzed. The county has historically made improvements that work in concert with existing systems, and this will be an emphasis moving forward as new and improved systems are phased in and impacts on the existing system are evaluated.” 

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Source: Recycling Today
Florida county contracts with Tetra Tech and GBB
<![CDATA[The solid waste management consulting firm Gershman, Brickner & Bratton Inc. (GBB), headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, has announced it is assisting Lee County, Florida, with its integrated waste management system (IWMS) expansion project as a subcontractor to the consulting and engineering firm Tetra Tech Inc. Pasadena, California.The project team will perform a waste characterization study, evaluate the county’s current system, review regional systems and national best practices, evaluate available technologies, a needs forecast and an analysis of options. Once the options are defined and analyzed, the project team will work with Lee County to group them into several system scenarios that will be fully described and analyzed. Internal workshops and meetings with County management and its Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) as well as a public involvement process to both inform and gain input to the direction the County should head in the future are also planned. “The BoCC was seeking the services of consultants that can bring expertise, fresh perspectives and forward thinking to the process and can envision how the existing system can evolve to best serve the county’s citizens over the next 20 years,” says Keith Howard, Lee County’ Solid Waste Division director. “The Tetra Tech/GBB team brings to…