Water Supply and Infrastructure Assessment and Design-Build Services

In order to develop a legacy brownfield property that was a former industrial facility, MFA assisted the client with untangling easements and conducting assessments of the supply, storage, and distribution systems of a municipal water supplier to understand its capability to support a new development. After successful negotiation of an infrastructure agreement with the municipality, MFA completed a number of design-build projects that involved segregating utilities in preparation for future large-scale redevelopment. 

MFA conducted all design, permitting, and agency negotiations. As the general contractor, MFA completed construction that included industrial potable water system decommissioning and demolition; industrial/potable water system replacement, including well relocation, pump house construction, and piping; connection to a public water supply, natural gas pipeline installation; and private sewer force main relocation—all to further clear the property for redevelopment.

Additional design-build services were provided related to preparation for property redevelopment and to complete the owner’s terms of agreement with the municipality related to utilities (including assisting with water rights transfer and aquifer storage and recovery permitting). The project consisted of the design and installation of a large-diameter water transmission main line for future city transfer of water from an newly developed water facility; the design and installation of a water main line and dual sanitary sewer force main to increase capacity of the city’s existing systems and to provide connection to the development site; the installation of a shared utility access road to be used by multiple entities; the installation of four casement pipes beneath the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way to enable utility connections to the development site and to proposed municipal infrastructure, and the installation of a stormwater line from the proposed development to an existing private outfall. 

To further advance the redevelopment, MFA provided engineering design and support services for a municipal water facility. The project consisted of the design, submittal review, construction oversight, and testing of a sanitary sewer lift station to increase the city’s capacity near the development, two aboveground storage tanks to increase potable water storage, and a booster pump station to deliver water from the new aboveground storage reservoir. MFA also designed and served as the general contractor for the drilling of two wells to serve the municipal water facility and provide aquifer storage and recovery capabilities.

MFA also provided engineering design, submittal review, and construction oversight for frontage improvements and monitoring well access roads. All deliverables and many site actions had to be reviewed and cleared by multiple client teams and outside agencies that had jurisdiction. 

The property owner’s objectives of brownfield redevelopment are being successfully implemented. Construction conformed to the design and was implemented on time and within budget, providing full utility functionality. Environmental conditions and stakeholder relationships were managed effectively, and the overall property redevelopment is a success.