Atlantic City is known for gambling, but the City Island Wastewater Treatment Plant’s energy and environmental initiatives are far from a roll of the dice. Instead, this 40-mgd activated sludge plant finds success by combining strategic energy conservation practices with some of the largest wind and solar initiatives in the wastewater sector. It’s all about rate stabilization and environmentalism, says Tom Lauletta, P.E., vice president for the Wastewater Division of the Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA), which oversees the plant and the regional wastewater collection system.“We were looking at 15 percent annual increases in combined energy costs every year at
