• The Lakes Area Sewer Authority, through the Cass County Board of Public Works, obtained USDA funding and is constructing a $10.833 million wastewater collection and treatment system project to construct sanitary sewers.
  
  
• The collection system is a gravity system with lift stations while the treatment plant is a 250,000 gpd activated sludge process, expandable to 1.0 mgd. The base basin designs will permit the receipt of septage, requiring installation of only a septage receiving station and associated headworks/piping/etc which are also being engineered and constructed as part of the project due to remaining contingency funds.

This project received a 2011 Southwest Michigan Planning Commission Graham Woodhouse Intergovernmental Effort Award and the ASCE Quality of Life Award for the Southwest MI Group.

Services Provided:
Feasibility Study Design Engineering - Construction Engineering - Right-of-Way Acquisition - Surveying - Environmental

• Barron Lake was shrinking due to water evaporation. An Engineering Report for the Establishment and Maintenance of a Legal Lake Level recommended the legal level of 757.00 feet and methods of achieving and maintaining that level.
• A pump system raised the lake level 3 ft 4 in. to the legal level with 1,050 gallons of water per minute from the 226-foot-deep well.
• Without and outlet, the lake was brought up to 756.50 feet, leaving a six-inch free board for periods of high stormwater runoff. When the legal level is reached, the pump will be turned off while lake level monitoring continues.
• To protect against flooding, a gravity system was installed.

Services Provided:
Feasibility Study - Surveying - Engineering - Planning - Construction Engineering

• The city wanted to extend its roadway, water main, sanitary sewer and storm sewer to its growing industrial park.  The work included 8,500 linear feet of curbed bituminous roadway, 9,600 linear feet of 12-inch water main, 8,000 linear feet of sanitary sewer, and 7,000 linear feet of storm sewer varying in size between 12 and 30 inches. 
• The treatment train has been heralded by MDEQ and is being shown as a prudent manner of treating storm water before it enters a trout stream.  The wetlands have a waterfowl island, wet pond and a micro-pool.

Services Provided:
Engineering Design - Surveying - Construction Engineering, Permitting

• The wastewater from this area is pumped through a six-inch force main to connect to an existing 10-inch sewer on the south side of Eagle Lake that was constructed as part of the previous Ontwa Township sewer system.
• The project provided 271 connections involving 20,420 linear feet of eight- and 10-inch sanitary sewer, 7,980 linear feet of two, four, and six-inch force main, and three lift stations.

Services Provided:
Surveying - Site Design - Design Engineering - Construction Engineering - Right-of- Way - Construction Administration - Permitting

• The existing 12” irrigation well located on the east side of Big Crooked Lake was used to add water to both lakes.  This augmentation well raised and maintains the lake levels at 765.5 feet. 
• An 8” forcemain was constructed from the well to connect to an 18” gravity outlet pipe located on east side of Big Crooked Lake. The gravity pipe pumps water approximately 112,752.,000 to 150,336,000 gallons of water annually during the summer months.
• The concrete end section is protected with a heavy riprap over geotextile fabric and North American Green C350 permanent turf reinforcement mat.

Services Provided:
Surveying - Engineering - Inspection - Planning - Right-of-Way - Construction Inspection - Testing - Permitting -Utilities

Services Provided:
Feasibility Study - Surveying - Engineering - Inspection - Planning - Right-of-Way - Construction Inspection - Testing - Permitting - Utility Coordiantion