Hazen and Sawyer is working with AECOM to provide program management services for the full-scale $1-billion implementation of the Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT) for Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) in southeastern Virginia. Five SWIFT advanced treatment facilities will be built at existing HRSD water reclamation facilities. The facilities will use an eight-step, carbon-based advanced treatment process to further treat up to 100 million gallons per day of highly treated wastewater to meet drinking water quality standards. That water will be pumped back into the Potomac Aquifer to help replenish shrinking groundwater supplies. Under the new $80-million contract, awarded to AECOM in September, Hazen will provide technical design for bridging documents as part of HRSD’s consideration of delivering the facilities through an alternative delivery procurement process. The first documents—for a SWIFT treatment facility at HRSD’s James River Treatment Plant—are expected to be complete by spring of 2020. Dwayne Amos, an associate vice president at Hazen, says the 1-mgd, Hazen-designed SWIFT Research Center, which went online May 2018, is helping to demonstrate at a meaningful scale that carbon-based advanced treatment can produce water that meets primary drinking-water standards.