Lombardo Associates, Inc. (LAI) has 40 years of experience with innovative wastewater management, in particular for unsewered communities, water quality modeling and watershed planning. LAI has been the Engineer-of-Record for innovative decentralized wastewater projects with capital costs greater than $200 million that are operating throughout the United States. LAI is considered a national expert on decentralized wastewater management, alternative sewer systems and passive nitrogen and phosphorus removal techniques.
Lombardo Associates, Inc. was the recipient of the prestigious American Consulting Engineer’s Council Engineering Excellence Award for its Chesapeake Bay project and an Engineering News Record Construction Man of the Year candidate. LAI has been the Engineer of Record of a 900,000 gallons per day innovative wastewater treatment system in Chesapeake Bay using constructed wetlands for nutrient removal, 20+ cluster wastewater systems ranging in size from 2 to 200+ households, and over 200 individual conventional and advanced treatment on-site wastewater systems achieving nitrogen and phosphorus removal comparable to the most sophisticated centralized wastewater treatment plant. LAI has also been the Chief Engineer for a number of public-private partnerships for 25 MGD municipal water and 16 MGD wastewater treatment facilities. LAI has engineered innovative wastewater systems in the States of NY, MA, CT, RI,NJ, MD, VA, NC, FL, AZ and CA.
Additional information and full statement of qualifications available on LAI’s web site www.LombardoAssociates.com.
Lombardo Associates, Inc. has authored or been a contributor to numerous EPA manuals since 1979, that include:
USEPA On-Site Wastewater Management Design Manual, 2002
USEPA Manual Constructed Wetlands Treatment of Municipal Wastewaters (EPA625R-
99 10), 2000
USEPA, “It’s Your Choice, A Guidebook for Local Officials on Small Community
Wastewater Management Options”, (EPA-625/9-87-006)
USEPA Septage Treatment and Disposal Manual (EPA-625/6-84-009)
Planning Wastewater Management Facilities for Small Communities (EPA-600/8-80-030)
Model Wastewater Management Facility Plan, 1980
Pio Lombardo was a retained speaker by US EPA for seminars throughout the US on alternatives to conventional sewers in the 1980s.
LAI also has authored the following manuals for the U.S. EPA National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project (www.ndwrcdp.org):
Cluster Wastewater Systems Planning Handbook. Project No. WU-HT-01-45. Prepared for the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, by Lombardo Associates, Inc., Newton, MA, 2004
Phosphorus Geochemistry in Septic Tanks, Soil Absorption Systems and Groundwater, Prepared for the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, by Lombardo Associates, Inc., Newton, MA, April 2006
and co-authored the WEF publication:
Alternative Sewer Systems Manual of Practice FD-12, 2008, Water Environment Federation
LAI is considered a national expert on decentralized wastewater management, alternative sewer systems and passive nitrogen and phosphorus removal techniques.
Mr. Pio Lombardo, President of LAI, was the author of the 1st version of the US EPA water quality model HSPF which is widely used for Total Maximum Daily Load determinations to achieve water quality standards since 1970s. Pio was chair and vice-chair of the national Water Environment Federation Small Community Committee from 2000 — 2005.
