The Town of Hinesburg is a growing community that currently lacks a town green or designated community gathering space. A town-owned 2.6-acre parcel was previously identified as a potential Town Common. The parcel is adjacent to neighborhoods and civic and business entities along VT 116 (Fire Station, Police Department, Answer Media, and Giroux Body Shop)…
The City of St. Albans sought to create a plan for the south end of Taylor Park to improve cohesion and connectivity with the historic north end. Taylor Park needed improved circulation, infrastructure for events, increased accessibility, improved lighting and wayfinding, improved stormwater infrastructure, and a more extensive tree canopy. As part of a consultant…
Rutland wished to revitalize and reimagine Center Street to create a space that would boost commerce, social capital, public safety, and civic pride to help the downtown thrive. D&K led a scoping study that included a long-term redesign; public feedback; potential impacts on traffic, parking, and businesses; development of a plan for implementation; identification of…
Home to the 653-acre Green River Reservoir, the Village of Hyde Park is located on the recently reconstructed Lamoille Valley Rail Trail within ten miles of Vermont’s Long Trail. The village wanted to encourage more visitors to frequent the area and is evaluating opportunities to improve Main Street’s hardscape amenities, wayfinding, multimodal facilities, and utilities….
The Cabot-Danville US 2 Segment 1 highway stormwater improvements included relocating a reach of Molly’s Falls Brook. The project required site inspection coordinated with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources District Fisheries Biologist, Stream Alteration Engineer, and VTrans representatives. To relocate the brook, D&K collected site data and developed a design utilizing hydraulic engineering and…
The US 2 Segment 1 safety project required permitting, design, and planning services for the mitigation of impacts to nearby habitats. D&K conducted a wildlife habitat assessment and mitigation; identification, design, construction, and monitoring of a wetland mitigation site; permitting services; a site plan and conditional use approval from East Montpelier; coordination with state and…
The Sydney Drive park provides a venue for passive recreation and includes the conversion of an open stormwater retention pond to subsurface manifold piping and stone retention facility with an underlying treatment media. The project is an implementation of the Indian Brook Flow Restoration Plan and a pilot treatment study in preparation of future Lake…
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…
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…