The 2026 edition of NEIWPCC Technical Report 16 (TR-16) is the industry standard for planning and designing wastewater treatment facilities.
This comprehensive update integrates modern regulatory standards, current best practices, and critical lessons learned from recent extreme weather events.
Key Enhancements:
- Climate Resilience: Significant revisions to flood elevation standards, backup power requirements, and equipment protection to ensure facility stability during emergencies.
- Contaminants of Emerging Concern: New guidance on PFAS, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine-disrupting compounds.
- Modern Operations: Updated chapters on Instrumentation and Controls, Resource Recovery, and Residuals Management.
- Expanded Technical Support: New insights on bench- and pilot-scale studies, literature reviews, and treatment limitations.
This edition replaces the 2016 version, providing essential updates for engineers, planners, and municipalities navigating a changing environmental landscape.
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Preparing for Extreme Weather at Wastewater Utilities: Strategies and Tips
The wastewater manager who is tasked with planning for extreme weather events faces challenges both critical and difficult. This guide can help, with a description of the central issues and with tips and stories gleaned from the experience of wastewater professionals in the Northeast.
The goal of this publication is to orient the reader to the problem of emergency preparation and to offer many points of departure for further information. The material is organized generally by time period, starting with prestorm planning and ending with post-storm assessment and repair.
The focus of this guide is on operations. Wastewater professionals interested in design issues related to extreme weather may wish to consult NEIWPCC’s Guides of the Design of Wastewater Treatment Works (Technical Report 16). This design guide has been recently revised to incorporate the latest thinking about resiliency and adaptation in the siting and design of physical plant.