News and Events

CMA Engineers Providing Comprehensive Services for Waterville Valley - CMA Engineers is providing engineering services for water system improvements, sewer extensions, wastewater treatment plant equipment replacement and design/build management services for municipal building projects. The Town will make use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for the equipment replacement project and will seek a combination of loan and grant funds from the USDA Rural Utilities Program.

CMA Engineers Selected by Delaware Solid Waste Authority – CMA Engineers is evaluating a unique landfill closure project in Delaware. The 42 acre landfill was capped in the 1990’s using an innovative, exposed reinforced polypropylene geomembrane cover system which is now subject to accelerating ultraviolet light degradation. Comprehensive material testing is being used to evaluate the integrity of the cover system and develop repair and final closure strategies.

Drainage Projects Funded by Various Sources – New England communities are accelerating drainage improvement projects due to storm damage in recent years and the availability of Federal funding from several sources. FEMA Hazard Mitigation Program and ARRA stimulus funding are being tapped for replacement of undersized culverts and bridges. CMA Engineers drainage improvement projects are underway in New Durham, Alton, Kingston and Exeter.

Ducharme and Larochelle Named Principals Joseph M. Ducharme, Jr., P.E. and Roch D. Larochelle, P.E., both vice presidents of CMA Engineers, have been named principals of the firm. Mr. Ducharme is an environmental engineer and manages the firm’s Manchester, NH office, and Mr. Larochelle is in charge of civil and transportation projects for the firm.

CMA Engineers Designing State Street Reconstruction For the City of Portsmouth, CMA Engineers is designing improvements to State Street to separate sewers, reconstruct utilities, and provide a new streetscape as a critical and much improved link between Market Square and the Portsmouth waterfront.

CMA Engineers Designing Multi-Modal Pathway for Pease Development Authority On behalf of the Pease Development Authority, CMA Engineers is designing a pedestrian/bike path to connect Pease to the rural roadway system in Greenland and Newington via a proposed path adjacent to NH Route 33.

Joe Ducharme joins CMA Engineers as Vice President - Joseph M. Ducharme, Jr., P.E., formerly the President/CEO of TTG Environmental Consultants, LLC, a division of The H.L.Turner Group Inc. of Concord, has joined CMA Engineers as Vice President and will manage CMA Engineers' office in Manchester, NH. Mr. Ducharme holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Civil and Public Works Engineering from Texas A&M University. Joe has 26 years of construction and engineering experience with a focus on planning, permitting, design and construction administration of municipal water, wastewater and storm water projects.

Manchester, NH Office opened June 1, 2008 - CMA Engineers has opened a new office in Manchester, NH at Langer Place off South Commercial Street. Located on the fourth floor of a renovated mill building, the office overlooks the Merrimack River and is adjacent to Manchester's minor league baseball stadium. Another Cool Place to work.

CMA Engineers President Named Distinguished Member by ASCE - Craig N. Musselman, P.E., of CMA Engineers has been named a Distinguished Member by the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of his engineering career and his national professional involvement in the areas of licensure and engineering education reform. This is an honor given by ASCE to no more than one in 7,500 civil engineers each year.

Visit ASCE Website: http://content.asce.org/handa/DistinguishedMemberClass2008.html

Britt Audet joins CMA Engineers - Britt E. Audet, P.E., of Nottingham, NH, has joined CMA Engineers as a project manager/ project engineer. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Audet has five years experience in civil engineering design.

CMA Engineers' President appointed to ABET Board of Directors - Craig N. Musselman, P.E., CMA Engineers' president, has been appointed to a three year term on the Board of Directors of ABET, the organization which accredits university engineering programs in the United States. He will represent the National Society of Professional Engineers on the ABET board.

Roch D. Larochelle, P.E. Joins CMA Engineers as Vice President, Civil Engineering - Roch Larochelle, a civil engineer with twenty years experience in highway engineering, has joined CMA Engineers as Vice President in charge of civil engineering. He will serve as a project manager on civil and highway engineering projects.

Kareckas named Principal - CMA Engineers has announced that John C. "Jack" Kareckas has been named a principal of the firm. Jack is in charge of construction resident inspection for the firm.

Concord, MA, Warner's Pond Dam Reconstruction - CMA Engineers is administering the reconstruction of Warner's Pond dam in Concord, MA and is preparing plans and specifications for other drainage improvements in Concord.

Seabrook, NH Wastewater Improvements - CMA Engineers is designing and administering the construction of various improvements to the Seabrook, NH wastewater treatment and collection system including modifications to the disinfection control system and SCADA improvements to all wastewater pumping stations.

Single Stream Recycling Facility - CMA Engineers is assisting the Concord Solid Waste Cooperative in the implementation of a state of the art single stream recycling facility to serve southern New Hampshire.

Verso Paper Landfill Expansion, Jay, ME - CMA Engineers designed and is administering the construction of an all-geosynthetic expansion of an existing paper mill landfill in Jay, ME.

Ash Landfill Expansion, Franklin, NH - CMA Engineers is designing and administering the construction of a Phase V ash landfill expansion in Franklin, NH to provide ash disposal capacity for the Concord, NH waste to energy facility through 2014.

CMA Engineers' President receives national award - Craig N. Musselman, P.E. received the 2006 American Society of Civil Engineers "President's Medal". Two such medals are issued annually by ASCE to recognize the "accomplishments and contributions of eminent engineers to the profession, the Society, or the public". This award pertains to an initiative to change the Model Law for engineers in the US to require additional engineering education as a prerequisite for licensure in the future.

CMA Engineers Retained by City of Rockland, Maine - The City of Rockland has selected CMA Engineers to provide environmental testing and engineering planning for a 6 acre 100+ foot deep rock quarry backfilled over the past 80 years with a mixture of wet waste seaweed, construction demolition debris and bulky wastes. Creative thought and engineering are needed to begin to address intolerable neighborhood odor impacts.

CMA Engineers Website Wins National Award - The American Association of Webmasters has recognized the CMA Engineers website for its design, layout and quality of content with a national Silver Award for 2006-2007.

CMA Engineers Vice President Bill Straub, P.E. has been named as the "Engineer of the Year" for 2006 by the Joint Committee of New Hampshire Engineering Societies.

CMA Engineers Project Manager Paul Schmidt, P.E. has been named as the "Young Engineer of the Year" for 2006 by the Joint Committee of New Hampshire Engineering Societies.

The Town of Kittery, Maine has retained CMA Engineers to provide comprehensive municipal services including planning board review assistance, roadways, bridges, drainage, marine facilities and other municipal projects.