The Columbia/Snake River system is the largest wheat export gateway in the U.S. Almost half of the wheat exports arrive by barges moving through the Columbia/Snake River system. It is estimated that each year over 3.5M (4.2M in 2020) metric tons of commodities currently move through the lower Snake River locks. The Pacific Northwest Waterways […]
The Greatrock North Water and Sanitation District retained our team to address its aging and failing reverse osmosis water treatment plant. The existing plant designed and built by the original developer had a capacity of 100 gpm and could not keep up with the desired capacity or the district’s water quality targets. The district’s raw […]
The Edgemont Ranch Metropolitan District was issued new and very strict TIN, TN and TP limits that rendered their lagoon system obsolete. Edgemont Ranch lies in the watershed of the Florida River, a tributary of the Animas River. Downstream of the treatment facility are agricultural irrigation reservoirs that experienced algae blooms. Because lagoon-based systems are […]
The Town of Del Norte’s collection system had significant structural issues including collapsed clay pipes, cracks, and offset joints. This caused significant inflow and infiltration (groundwater/runoff) into the collection system, sometimes as much as doubling or tripling the normal influent wastewater flow to the wastewater treatment plant. This significantly affected the treatment facility’s ability to […]
Center Sanitation District was struggling for years with a non-compliant lagoon system. The existing facility had chronic BOD, TIN, and E. Coli violations of their groundwater discharge permit. The district was issued a Notice of Violation Cease and Desist Order for the length and severity of these violations. Our team was tasked with creating a […]
Located on the shores of Commencement Bay, the City of Tacoma is an industrial port city and the third largest (pop. 220K) in the State of Washington. Because Tacoma and dozens of regional cities have a direct impact on surface waters feeding into Puget Sound, the increasing costs of meeting National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System […]
Twenty-eight acre site for construction of new district office, warehouse, bus facility and 4000 LF of half street improvements for a major arterial roadway. We provided civil engineering design services for Durango Road, which included paving, sewer, and public water.
This project involved topographic survey, new sewer design to replace existing septic system and complete onsite and offsite civil design services, including grading and drainage, domestic water, private fire line, 4 tennis courts, 2 large parking lots, 2 bus drop-offs, all weather running track, football, baseball and softball fields.
Our team performed all imagery acquisition and processing as well as most of the LiDAR acquisition (approximately 3,100 square miles) for this project. In order to enable capture of peak flood conditions, typical orthoimagery acquisition specifications for no clouds or haze, etc. were not required for this project.
Madbush Falls – Riders’ Outpost was an exciting project involved a complete rehabilitation and transformation of an abandoned old motel and bar known as the Madbush Alpine Chalet in Waitsfield, VT along VT Route 100 a few miles from the Sugarbush Ski Resort.