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Summary
Burns & McDonnell was retained to perform soil and groundwater remediation of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as perchloroethylene and trichloroethylene (PCE and TCE) at a warehouse facility in Dallas. A historical spill of the chlorinated VOCs behind the warehouse building resulted in the contamination of soil in the immediate area and shallow groundwater leading from the spill area. Subsurface soil and groundwater sampling have de
Completion Date: 2000
Services Provided
- Master planning
- Customer and demand projections
- Water system evaluations
- Wastewater system evaluations
- Reuse system evaluations
- Hydrogeological analysis
- Computer modeling
- Cost estimating
- Permitting
Project Summary
Completion Date: March 2003
Services Provided
- Filter rehabilitation
- Air scour system design
- Construction phase services
Project Summary
Burns & McDonnell provided planning, design, bidding and construction services for the City of Junction City’s water plant improvement project. The project included the rehabil
Completion Date: 2002
Services Provided
- Water supply/delivery
- Hydraulic modeling and design
- Water quality analyses
- Water supply hydrology
- Flood hydrology
- 3-D project rendering
- Physical hydraulic models
- Spillway hydraulics
- GIS/GPS
- Design plans and specifications
- Construction serv
Completion Date: 1998
Services Provided
- Surface water modeling
- Groundwater modeling
- Storage reservoir siting and assessment
- Facility modifications
- Water supply alternative evaluations
- Water quality analysis
- Hydrology and hydraulics
- Cost estimating
- Water supply engineering
- Prelimina
Completion Date: June 1996
Services Provided
- Water source study
- Population projections
- Service area delineation
- Water demand projection
- Public involvement
- Capacity assessment
- Infrastructure needs
- Environmental assessment
- Agency coordination
- Alternative evaluation
- Cost opini
Completion Date: 1992
Services Provided
- Master planning
- Water supply and distribution planning
- Hydraulic modeling
- Customer and demand projections
- Cost estimating
- Economic comparison
- Regulatory review
- Statutory review
Project Summary
Burns &
Completion Date: 1999
Services Provided
- Collection system modeling
- Pumping station analysis
- Combined and sanitary sewer wet weather flow management
Project Summary
Burns & McDonnell performed a master plan of wastewater facilities for Kansas City, Mo., south of the Missouri River. The planning activities included developing
Completion Date: 2003
Services Provided
- 65-MGD river intake
- Mechanically cleaned bar screen
- Two traveling water screens
- Quarter-mile-long access bridge with service deck
- Four 15,050 gpm vertical turbine intake pumps
- 48-inch raw water transmission line
- Regulatory agencies coordination
That`s the task the Florida Legislature set for the South Florida Water Management District.
But how? Decades of development had eliminated the sheet flow of water from Lake Okeechobee. Densely populated cities and a 700,000-acre agricultural area, drained by 1,500 miles of canals and levees, now lay between the lake and the Everglades. Wetlands have disappeared. Worse, non-native plants flourish in the phosphorus-rich runoff. The excess nutrie