Urban storm water runoff contains pollutants from roads, parking lots, construction sites, industrial storage yards and lawns. The Storm Water Program of WIS-DOT, DNR, ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS and FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISION regulates variety of compliance related to storm water discharges from construction sites, industrial facilities and municipalities. Our expertise includes;

• Inspections and evaluations of municipal facilities.
• Hydrology, wetland delineation and Hydraulic design

 

Per Department Of Natural Resources ; About 220 municipalities in Wisconsin are currently required to have a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit under NR 216, Wis. Adm. Code [PDF exit DNR]. A MS4 permit is required for a municipality that meets one of the following criteria:

• It is located within a federally-designated Urbanized Area [exit DNR]
• Its population equals 10,000 or more based on the latest decennial census; or
• When the Department of Natural Resources designates the municipality for permit coverage in accordance with s. NR 216.025. The MS4 permits are effective for a period of up to five years, at which point the permits are updated and re-issued.

Our firm provides storm sewer design that complies with Federal and State regulations with employees that have decades of experience. Each construction project that involves public or private utilities have to comply with those regulations in order to receive proper permitting.

DNR has high standards when it comes to working at or near wetlands and areas where there are environmental concerns. Our firm can help you identify those locations and design the proper permit for construction.

WATER MAIN DESIGN

Every City and State has its own municipal service code indicating materials to be used and where to be placed. Water pressure, testing of newly installed water-main, joint fuse, fittings and stops will have a unique design parameters with respect to public infrastructure.

 

Our firm’s engineers have 30+ years of experience in those standards and will be able help identify the critical path as well as construction guidelines.

Our firm is expert in the design of underground utilities. This allows us to better understand and explain the proposed improvements to other utilities and provide better communication, avoiding the conflicts in field. When it comes to the design of bore path and drilling details, there are so many details as to bore pits, bore drill reaming, ream sizing with respect to item being pulled and turn radius. Those are highly important for the size and the length of the project.

• Water supply design
• Master System planning and Modeling
• Automation/Controls
• Storage, Distribution and pumping Stations
• Soil sampling and utility survey for Horizontal Directional Boring/Drilling.

STORM SEWER DESIGN

Typically Storm Sewer in urban areas are required to be separate from the sanitary sewer. Per updated DNR guidelines new buildings and updated road constructions comply with this regulation as a part of the upgrade. Our firm can

• Stormwater Master Planning and Modeling
• CSO/SSO Analysis and Abatement
• Development Site and Highway Drainage Design
• Stormwater Permitting and Pollution Prevention Plans

SANITARY SEWER DESIGN

Our firm would be able to assist in

• Design of wastewater facilities
• Innovative solutions of wastewater collection and treatment
• Project planning of sanitary sewer upgrades in conjunction with road improvements.

Sanitary sewer Typical design flow of a house is 800-1000 gal/capita/day where a house has a design load of 2-3 occupants. Calculating the flow, friction, size/slope of the sewer line and the fittings go through a sophisticated fluid/hydraulics design that provides the best solution.

Our team will identify the critical locations and provide a cost effective formula to come up with the best design with respect to design and construction cost.

UTILITY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Our firm is a full service engineering consulting firm providing services to municipal, government, corporate and industrial/commercial clients. Our engineers consist of retired State and City engineers with 30+ years of experience.

UTILITY COORDINATION FOR ROAD PROJECTS

Our firm will assist you on utility coordination of both public and private utilities with municipal proposals. The majority of the construction claims consist of construction delays caused by the utilities. Every year thousands of claims find their way to the courtroom or are otherwise delayed. The number one goal of every project manager is to complete their work on time. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way because significant coordination has to take place before a road project can begin.

Wisconsin Chapter Trans 220 clearly states the importance of a relocation work that needs to comply with guidelines well before a construction projects even gets designed. Therefore it is highly important for a municipal design to follow Trans-220 and similar rules before coordinating their work. Typical Trans-220 project gives 90 to 120 days for utilities to give a written response to a design in final plan phase. Discussions and utility coordination meetings sometimes take 6 months to couple years. Our firm can help you get through the coordination of these utilities with respect to the proposed road improvement projects.

With our input and coordination of the construction project municipalities would be able to avoid the higher cost due to delays, change orders due to missing utility provisions and other miscellaneous problems due to miss-coordination of utility companies.