EST. 1977 · Cedar Knolls, NJ
Contractors & Engineers
Since 1977.
Family-owned and operated. Serving the entire State of New Jersey with heavy-civil water and wastewater infrastructure.
What we do
Three lines of work, one line of accountability.
Self-performed wastewater, water, and in-house engineering. Every project a public-sector partner job since 1977.
01 · Service
Wastewater
Plants. Sewers. CSO. Bypass.
Combined sewers, sanitary sewers, treatment-plant construction and rehab. Documented 20 MGD bypass on the NHSA PURAC plant. Without taking it offline.
Capability
02 · Service
Water
Reservoirs. Wells. Gravity feed.
Reservoir rehabilitation, large-scale gravity-feed piping, treatment facilities, well improvements, and pump station replacement. Boonton Reservoir, Orange, and JCMUA are part of 49 years of NJ public-water work.
Capability
03 · Service
Sitework
Excavate. Grade. Restore.
Mass excavation, grading, underground utilities, and full site restoration. Self-performed crews and equipment mean the foundation work is right the first time — no subcontractor finger-pointing when the schedule is tight.
Capability
About Scafar
A New Jersey family doing NJ public work for 49 years.
Scafar started in 1977 as a small family contractor doing municipal water work in New Jersey. Forty-nine years later, that's still the entire story. A portfolio of authorities, utilities, and state and federal partners across the same state.
We added in-house professional engineering in 2000, so concept, design, and build all happen under one roof. Family-owned, statewide, and unflashy on purpose.
Established
1977
Cedar Knolls · Family-owned · Statewide
Featured projects
Five NJ jobs. Hundreds of millions in public-water infrastructure.
From the NHSA PURAC bypass to the Boonton Reservoir gravity feed. From Newark CSO compliance to a 150-year-flood-design floodwall on an active NJ Transit corridor. The portfolio that backs the phone number.
All projects
Wastewater · Hudson County
NHSA PURAC System Upgrade
Temporary 20 MGD wastewater bypass and process upgrades. Sand removal, FRP backwash piping, sludge piping replacement, and chemical-feed diversion. All without taking the PURAC plant offline.
North Hudson Sewerage Authority
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Claystreet CSO Facility
Combined Sewer Overflow solids and floatables control facility. Site work, hazardous-soil excavation, 16″ water main modifications, and mechanical bar screen installation. Debris transport coordinated with Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission.
Boonton Reservoir Rehabilitation
Reservoir rehabilitation and gravity-feed system. Steel piping manifold demolition and rebuild, 84″ gravity pipeline installation, 72″ bypass line, and rapid-mix chamber with chemical-feed system. Designed to mitigate ~$500K annual electric load.
Green Brook Flood Control
Two miles of $30M+ flood-control infrastructure designed for the 150-year flood event. R2 levee, R2 concrete floodwall, R2 pump station, railroad closure structure, and diversion culvert. 200,000 cubic yards moved alongside an active NJ Transit railway.
Orange Treatment Plant
Mountain Well improvements and Chestnut Street pump station replacement. Five potable production wells in South Mountain Reservation, ~3.1 MGD average. New treatment facility, pump station, automation. 35′-deep streambed well required dewatering and carbon filtration.
Signature capability
20 MGD bypass on the NHSA PURAC plant.
Without taking it offline.
Most contractors will not bond the risk profile of bypassing a 20 million-gallon-per-day wastewater plant while it stays in service. We've done it. North Hudson Sewerage Authority, ongoing, on the books.
By the numbers
Forty-nine years.
Hundreds of NJ public-water projects.
One family.
- 49yrs
Family-owned, in New Jersey
1977 → today. Three lines of public-water work on a single line of accountability.
- $500M+
Of NJ public-water work delivered
Forty-nine years of $10 to $20 million projects across wastewater, water, and in-house engineering.
- 100+
Public-sector projects completed
Every featured project a municipal, utility, or state-and-federal partner job.
Where we work
Six counties of focus. Statewide reach.
Scafar serves the entire State of New Jersey, but most active public-water work clusters in six northern counties. Click a county or a project pin to explore the territory.
Clients & Partners
Public agencies. Public utilities. Public trust.
Forty-nine years of partnerships with municipal authorities, regional utilities, and state and federal agencies. Every featured project is a public-sector job. None of them by accident.
Direct clients
- Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority
- North Hudson Sewerage Authority
- American Water
- SUEZ
- Newark Dept. of Water & Sewer Utilities
- City of Orange Township
Project partners
- NJDEP
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission
Get in touch
Public-works projects are relationship work. The fastest path to a conversation is the phone. A procurement officer or utility director who wants real answers gets them quickly.
Call Scafar
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