In 2021, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) removed the exclusion of dam rehabilitation from the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund (DWSRF) program. Applying for DWSRF...
Engineers who design, inspect, and plan repairs and upgrades of the more than 80,000 dams across the United States usually are thinking in timeframes of years—how long it will take to design and...
GZA has been actively monitoring the upcoming changes to the FERC’s Part 12D and associated Dam Safety regulations. We’ve attended multiple industry presentations, including the recent “Leveraging...
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides $585 million for the repair or breaching of dams defined as “high hazard.” For many communities, this presents a choice: Rehabilitate the dam...
If you’re driving by a major dam one day, or driving down the highway looking at a cliff, you wouldn’t expect to see someone rappelling down the front of it. Yet that’s all in a day’s work for a dam...
Swan Pond is a 2-acre pond formed near the headwaters of Meadow Brook in Springfield, Massachusetts, within the city’s 734-acre Forest Park. The Main Greeting Road into Forest Park crosses the 45 foot...
Lori Wolfe, of the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, discusses the Peterson Pond Dam removal, which our dams team served as a consultant on.
GZA is proud to sponsor this presentation! Presenters include: Anders Bjarngard & Yixing Yuan, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Adam Monroe, Consumers Energy Luke Trumble, Michigan Department of Environment...
As a long-time corporate member of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, GZA has been aware of the looming crisis with our nation’s dams for years. Every so often, a major and sometimes...
Old dams are being taken down around the country for environmental and safety reasons. In Massachusetts, the story of the Upper Roberts Meadow Reservoir Dam removal project shows the complexities...
On July 8, 2015, the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) discovered a turbid discharge at the toe of Cannonsville Dam, a 2,800 ft. long, 175 ft. max. height, earthen dam constructed...