GREENE COUNTY, Pa. — Penn E&R provided engineering and environmental services for an approximately 15-mile water conveyance pipeline project. Our scope of work included engineering design of the pipeline, generating required permits with PADEP for the construction of the pipeline through sensitive environmental areas, multiple utility crossings and HOPs through PennDOT, and providing construction oversight, including professional certification of the pipeline installation. Several notable characteristics of this project include:
- Archaeological and rare or endangered species concerns
- Crossing of a federal highway and numerous state and local roadways
- Numerous stream encroachments and crossings
- Pipeline route traversed across portions of the State Game Lands, several private residential properties and industrial properties
- 26-inch diameter HDPE pipe designed to convey 8,500 gallons per minute (gpm)
- Pipeline design implemented multiple horizontal borings to eliminate direct stream and road crossing impacts
- Pipeline design included attachments to existing bridge and tunnel structures to span roads and streams
