D&K provides civil, structural, mechanical, water resource, dam, environmental, and geotechnical engineering and permitting assistance to support maintenance and upgrades to a Northeast-focused hydroelectric utility. Project types include penstock inspections, power generation and project redevelopment studies, new fish passage systems, fish passage system maintenance, FERC licensing support services, permitting assistance, survey, substation and lattice structure…
To address conditions posed by environmental changes, infrastructure service life and suitability, shifting power production, and consumer use trends, Vermont Electric Coop regularly improves its substation yards and transmission infrastructure. Under an on-call arrangement, D&K provided survey, civil, and structural engineering to more than ten locations throughout VEC’s service area.
Green Mountain Power (GMP) is a private electrical utility provider that maintains much of Vermont’s electrical distribution and hydroelectric power-generating infrastructure, solar farms, and natural gas cogeneration facilities. As GMP has grown through expansions and small utility provider acquisitions over the past 20 years, D&K has supported approximately 200 projects, and we continue to provide…
The Town of Chester needed to address hydraulic capacity and condition issues associated with a 165-ft-long by 15.5-ft-high earthen dam with a concrete spillway impounding a small recreation pond. The site was constrained and funding for the project was limited. As Town Engineer, D&K evaluated the dam, watershed, and natural resources, developed alternatives, and provided…
The Greg Beaudoin Farm required a new covered barnyard. Under a contract with NRCS, D&K provided A/E services for site investigation, survey and mapping, preliminary and final design, and construction phase services.
Previously, the farm leachate collection system for the haylage bunker silos drained over a paved area to a storage tank during low flows and overflowed through a bar screen to a municipal catch basin on a roadway during high flows. The project replaced the bunker silos with a roofed bunker silo area, and installed a…
Illig Dairy Farm needed to replace an undersized earthen manure pit with a new concrete waste storage facility. D&K advanced the design and engineering, prepared plans and specifications, and observed the construction of a structure with an access ramp and a manure transfer channel.
The Conan Eaton/Auburn Star Farm is located in a significant bendway (oxbow) along the Connecticut River. The preexisting waste storage facility (WSF) was an unlined, open manure pit located on the southern side of the farm within several hundred feet of the river. The existing WSF had inadequate volume to support operations and the number…