Projects

Outflow Building Piping

Part of the Great Lakes Water Alliance project to expand Milwaukee water to Waukesha and surrounding communities, we got involved in the last 10′ of an extensive pipeline. As water is pumped from Lake Michigan to supply western communities, water also needs pumping back to the Lake to replenish the supply.

The water is pumped to a point in the root river that naturally flows back to Lake Michigan. As water travels through lengthy pipelines, the oxygen separates out. Before dumping that de-oxygenated water into the river it needs to be re-oxygenated or it will kill the wildlife in and around the river.

Our scope involved piping up the Waukesha Aeration building. The aeration building flows water over a large staircase that churns up the water in a waterfall effect. We connected the building to the 30″ water pipes flowing in and out of the building and installed pumps and water piping for cleaning and maintaining the system.

This project structure for not just the Waukesha Aeration building, but the whole project, involved many tiers of financing and contractors. Funding came in part from a federal initiative as well as various state and local sources; the project was a joint venture of multiple overseeing contractors, of which hired a general contractor who then hired us as their subcontractor. We navigated the red tape and got our portion of the work done without any hiccups.