Noblesville, IN

Finch Creek by Del Webb Lift Station

This project involved the construction of a new lift station and 12” force main to serve part of the proposed Pulte Homes Finch Creek by Del Webb development in Noblesville, Indiana located northeast of Boden Road and 156^th Street. The development consists of approximately 567 residential lots, 600 apartment/senior housing units, and an amenity center with a pool/clubhouse. The lift station was also designed to serve a future development on the south side of 156th Street. The lift station is in Hamilton Southeastern Utilities service area, and the force main discharges to the City of Noblesville’s sewer collection system for treatment.

Charlestown, IN

SR 62 Lift Station

The purpose of this project was to relocate and replace an aged existing lift station, designed with increased capacity to handle wet weather flows and future development. The project involved installing 400 LF of 18” gravity sewer, including a jack and bore under SR 62, to the new lift station location and installing 2,600 LF of 12” force main discharging at the WWTP. The new duplex lift station has a capacity of 2,200 gpm (3.2 MGD) and includes an emergency backup generator.

Monticello, IN

City Park Lift Station and Force Main

The scope of design services for this project included preliminary and final engineering/permitting to replace an existing duplex lift station and force main serving approximately 200 homes, along with providing construction phase services. The new duplex lift station and 2,500’ of 6” directionally drilled force main has the capacity to serve up to 180 additional homes. The new duplex submersible lift station includes the wet well with 360 gpm pumps, valve vault, pad-mounted emergency generator, and electrical/controls. The lift station is located within City Park (formal name of the park), which required close coordination with the parks department with respect to aesthetics and safety precautions. This coordination allowed the park and its daycare center to remain open for the duration of the construction of the project.

The new lift station was put into operation in early 2026 with demolition of the old facilities and force main abandonment occurring in the spring.

The $1.6 million project was completed with local funds.

Clinton, IN

Wastewater Treatment Plant Renovation

HWC provided services for the $3.2 million Wastewater Treatment Plant Renovation project in Clinton, Indiana. The project included renovations to the combined sewer wastewater treatment facility in Clinton, Indiana. HWC services included preparation of plans, specifications and bidding documents, construction engineering, inspection, and revisions to the SRF planning report.

The project included renovation of the existing combined sewer headworks, including a self-cleaning bar screen and new stormwater pump motors and controls. The raw sewage pump station was also replaced and an existing 2.0 MGD Cantex wet/dry pit package station was converted to a submersible pump type station. The project also included construction of an aerated channel type grit removal structure, replacement of the aeration equipment for two contact stabilization tanks, rehabilitation of two submerged steel tanks, retrofit of two abandoned anaerobic digesters to aerated liquid sludge storage tanks, installation of new blowers and disinfection equipment, a new laboratory control building, and new equipment and SCADA system for the plant and the remote lift stations.

Weirs, baffles, collectors, drives and the RAS/WAS pumping system were also upgraded to increase the peak capacity of the clarifiers.

Project Highlights:

• Complete retrofit of the plant headworks with increased pumping, screening, and grit removal
• Existing plant renovation with new aeration system and disinfection system
• Conversion of 2 old anaerobic digesters to aerobic digesters
• HWC provided planning, design, construction engineering, and inspection services for the project.

Cloverdale, IN

Lieber SRA, Regionalization and Wastewater Improvements 

HWC completed a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) for the Town of Cloverdale’s wastewater collection and treatment system for project funding through the Indiana Finance Authority’s (IFA) State Revolving Fund (SRF) loan program.

With HWC’s work in Cloverdale, the IFA retained HWC to complete a wastewater collection and treatment system analysis and PER for the Lieber State Recreation Area (SRA) in Putnam County. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is working with IFA to analyze their properties to enhance regional water quality through wastewater regionalization with their systems.

HWC’s recommendations for both the Cloverdale and Lieber SRA collection systems propose to reduce wet-weather-based inflow and infiltration (I/I) to optimize the Cloverdale Wastewater Treatment Facility. Both collection systems’ project recommendations include cured-in-place pipe (CIPP), force main replacement, and manhole rehabilitation.

Due to the age of the Lieber SRA Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), HWC further recommended that the facility be replaced with a regional lift station and approximately four miles of force main to deliver all the Lieber SRA wastewater to Cloverdale’s system for treatment.

For Cloverdale to be able to fully treat existing and added regionalized flows from Lieber SRA, the Cloverdale WWTF needed various upgrades and repairs. Included within these recommended projects were headworks screening upgrades, blower replacement, upgraded internal water reuse system, aeration tank wall repairs, and circular clarifier covers with netting to reduce debris entering and clogging the process.

The total estimated cost of the recommended projects for Cloverdale and Lieber SRA was $8.5 million, with construction completed in 2025. The project was completed utilizing the build-operate-transfer method of project delivery, and savings from the original scope of over $1 million allowed additional sewer rehabilitation in the Town’s system. HWC also completed an updated Asset Management Plan for the Town as part of the project.