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Water & Wastewater
Stronger Systems. Healthier Communities.
Reliable water infrastructure keeps communities moving. Tighe & Bond provides water and wastewater engineering, planning, and environmental consulting for municipalities, water districts, and investor-owned utilities across the Northeast. We help clients address aging infrastructure, changing regulatory requirements, and climate risks while balancing service needs with available funding.
Practical experience and creative solutions are key ingredients of our collective success, as our water engineers help hundreds of clients across the region manage their water resources. We work with clients on conditions assessments and capital improvements plans, helping them maximize the life of their assets, and prioritize improvements and replacements.
Our capabilities span drinking water supply, treatment, storage, and distribution; wastewater collection and treatment; and stormwater management. We design PFAS treatment systems, pump stations, water mains, sewer improvements, and biosolids processing facilities. Our team also provides hydrogeologic investigations, dam engineering, and combined sewer overflow reduction strategies, supporting projects from initial studies and permitting through construction and startup.
We pair this technical work with utility rate studies and assistance pursuing grants and low-interest loans through State Revolving Fund, USDA Rural Development, and other programs. By connecting infrastructure priorities with practical funding strategies, we help communities strengthen system reliability, protect water resources, and plan for long-term needs.
Peter Galant, PE
Vice President
Peter Galant is a principal and the technical director for Tighe & Bond’s Water Business Line. He has broad water system planning, eng…
Erin Moore, PE
Vice President, Senior Project Manager
Erin Moore is an environmental engineer and project manager with experience in municipal water, wastewater and stormwater projects. …
Peter Grabowski, PE
Chief Operating & Risk Officer
Peter Grabowski serves as a principal and project manager for a variety of water projects. His experience includes project managemen…
Tiffany Labrie, PE, CDT
Water Business Line Leader
Water Business Line Leader Tiffany Labrie is a civil and environmental engineer specializing in water and wastewater conveyance and treatmen…
Danielle Teixeira, PE
Senior Project Manager
Project Manager Danielle Teixeira focuses on drinking water supply and treatment projects. Her experience includes project…
Fred Mueller, PE
Vice President
Fred Mueller has more than three decades of experience managing and implementing projects related to wastewater, environmental remediation, …
Alan Gunnison, PE
Senior Project Manager
Alan is a Senior Project Manager at Tighe & Bond, with extensive experience in the planning, design, and construction of municipal water…
Mary Danielson, PE
Project Manager
Mary is a water & wastewater engineer and Project Manager at Tighe & Bond, specializing in water resource engineering projects. Her …
Colin Powers
Project Manager
Colin is a Project Manager specializing in wastewater and water projects. His experience includes design work, data analysis, report prepara…
Trent Guihan, PE
Business Solutions Manager
Trent Guihan is Tighe & Bond's Business Solutions Manager, with 5 years of structural engineering experience and has 10 years of experie…
Richard Protasowicki, PE
Vice President
Richard Protasowicki is Director of Project Management and Vice President in Tighe & Bond’s Water Business Line, based out of the Worc…
Joshua Clairmont, PE
Senior Engineer
Joshua Clairmont is a Senior Electrical Engineer in Tighe & Bond's Building Services Business Line with over 10 years of experience. He …
Matthew Romano, PE
Principal Engineer
Matthew Romano is a Principal Electrical Engineer at Tighe & Bond with over 20 years of engineering experience. He specializes in the de…
Prashanth Emmanuel, PE
Senior Project Manager
Prashanth Emmanuel is based in our Shelton, CT office, serving as a Senior Project Manager and Team Leader at Tighe & Bond. Emmanuel has…
Paul Moran, PE
Principal Engineer
Paul Moran is a Principal Engineer in Tighe & Bond’s Water Business Line, with over 10 years of experience as a water engineer special…
Zachariah Chornyak, PE
Vice President
Zach is a Vice President and Senior Project Manager at Tighe & Bond, with nearly two decades of experience in designing, permitting, and…
Leilani Dalpe
Grant Administrator
As Grant Administrator at Tighe & Bond, Leilani Dalpe works closely with staff and partners to identify effective, sustainable funding s…
Derek Belanger, PE
Senior Engineer
Derek is a technical lead supporting numerous water treatment projects as a Professional Engineer in Massachusetts. He has broad water and w…
Raymond Talkington, Ph.D., P.G., C.P.G.
Vice President
Ray Talkington is a Vice President at Tighe & Bond, with over 35 years of experience as a hydrogeologist. He has served as principal hyd…
Tom Mahanna, PE
Vice President
As a Water Technical Director based out of Tighe & Bond’s Worcester office, Tom serves as the principal and project manager for a variet…
James Webb
Principal Environmental Scientist
James Webb is a Principal Environmental Scientist who has 18 years of hazardous building materials assessment, management, and demolition ex…
Richard Canavan, PhD, PWS
Principal Environmental Scientist
Richard Canavan is a Principal Environmental Scientist with over 25 years of experience in environmental research, teaching, and consulting…
Katie Weaver, GISP
GIS Project Manager
Katie Weaver has 10 years of experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She is a GIS project manager for municipalities and academi…
Katy Wilkins
Project Manager
Katy Wilkins has ten years of experience in wetland evaluations and natural resources surveys. She is responsible for inland and coastal wet…
Brian Nereson, PE
Principal Engineer
Brian Nereson serves as Principal Engineer for the geotechnical engineering group in Tighe & Bond’s Water business line. He has close …
Louis A. Soracco, PE
Vice President
Louis Soracco is a Vice President with over two decades of experience collaborating with clients on their drinking water, wastewater and con…
Carolyn Lowe, PE
Vice President
Vice President Carolyn Lowe has worked throughout New York and Connecticut and has honed her expertise in environmental engineering for near…
Christopher Bone, PE
Vice President / Design Manager
Chris Bone serves as principal and project manager on a variety of water and wastewater projects. He specializes in treatment facility …
Kristen Kelly, GISP
Senior Project Manager
Kristen Kelly is a Senior Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in geographic information systems (GIS), cartography, and environ…
Paul Smith, PE
Senior Project Manager
Paul Smith serves as a Senior Project Manager in the Water Business Line at Tighe & Bond. He has been involved in a variety of environme…
William Potochniak, PE
Senior Project Manager
Bill Potochniak has 25 years of experience providing environmental engineering services to industrial and institutional clients. He speciali…
James Russell, PE
Vice President
Jim is a Vice President and Land Use Technical Director, with over three decades of experience. He began his career with the largest enginee…
Miles Moffatt, PE, BCEE
Vice President
Miles is a Vice President at Tighe & Bond, based out of our Westfield office. He also leads the Business Development pillar of Tighe &am…
Jeffrey Faulkner, PE
Vice President
Jeff has over 20 years of professional experience providing engineering and management of water and wastewater projects throughout New Engla…
Heather Doolittle, PE
Senior Engineer
As a staff engineer at Tighe & Bond, Heather Doolittle has worked on a variety of drinking water projects that include: distribution syste…
Dan Bisson, PE
Vice President
As a Vice President at Tighe & Bond and Location Manager for the Portland, Maine office, Dan leads our efforts in Northern New England and…
Ben Levesque, PE, BCEE
Vice President
With over 25 years of experience in the water and wastewater industry, Ben is skilled at collaborating with municipalities to design and imp…
Stephen Seigal, PE, BCEE
Vice President
Steve Seigal is a Project Director who has four decades of project management and engineering experience in municipal wastewater and is well…
Peter Valinski, PE
Vice President
Peter Valinski is a principal and one of Tighe & Bond’s business development leaders responsible for developing and executing the grow…
Emily Scerbo, PE
Vice President | Stormwater Practice Leader
Emily Scerbo is undeniably a Northeastern stormwater expert. She has worked with MA communities to implement EPA's MS4..…
Ian Catlow, PE
Vice President / Technical Director
Ian Catlow has more than two decades of water and wastewater design experience working on projects throughout New England. He has played a l…
Daniel Roop, PE
Project Manager
Daniel Roop is a project manager out of Tighe & Bond’s Worcester Office. He is Tighe & Bond’s Asset Management Technical special…
Daniel Valentine, PE
Senior Project Manager
Daniel Valentine has broad civil engineering experience that includes water supply and distribution, dam evaluations and emergency action pl…
Joseph Canas, PE, LEED AP, CFM
Principal Engineer
Joe Canas has more than two decades of experience in floodplain management, stormwater management, roadway design, hydrologic and hydraulic …
Tracy Adamski, AICP
Vice President
Our clients count on Tracy Adamski for her broad range of planning expertise in regulatory compliance, environmental permitting, land use pl…
Daniel Buttrick, PE
Senior Project Manager
Dan Buttrick has two decades of experience in water resources engineering in southern New England. His primary work focus is dams - from ins…
Craig French, PE
Principal Engineer / Structural Engineering Manager
Craig French manages Tighe & Bond’s structural department, and is responsible for structural engineering and architectural design…
Jason Urso, PE
Vice President
Jason Urso specializes in mechanical design for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. He has experience in a multitude of build…
Joseph Persechino, PE, LEED AP
Vice President, Real Estate Client Sector Leader
Joe Persechino is a Vice President and Client Sector Leader for Tighe & Bond's real estate development clients. He also serves as Direct…
Nathaniel Norton
GIS Director
Nathaniel (Nat) Norton has three decades of experience in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field. As Tighe & Bond’s GIS pra…
Sam Swartwout, GISP
Senior GIS Analyst
Sam Swartwout has almost two decades of experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He specializes in data development and analysis,…
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