Design, permitting and construction oversight for lake associations, shoreline districts and municipalities around Geneva Lake, East Troy and the Walworth County lakes.
Eroding banks, a failing outfall, a channel that moves sediment into the lake every spring: these are engineering problems before they are construction problems. We are the engineer on this work, not the contractor. That means the survey, the hydraulic analysis, the WDNR permit, the plans a contractor bids from, and someone on site making sure what gets built matches what was permitted.
Most of this work reaches us through lake associations, shoreline and sanitary districts, and the towns and villages that own the road crossings and outfalls around a lake. Those projects usually involve more than one authority, and the permitting path matters as much as the design.
Our experience here runs through the East Troy dam removal and Honey Creek restoration, phased drainage work as Town Engineer for the Town of Linn, and culvert and outfall repairs on the Geneva Lake shoreline.
Three examples of what this work looks like when it is finished. Follow any of them for the full story.
A WDNR repair-or-remove mandate on a flood-damaged dam became a restored, free-flowing stream: channel rebuilt with pools, riffles and rock features, banks stabilised, and habitat designed in. Grant administration funded a major share of the work.
As Town Engineer, phased drainage relief scoped to annual budgets: culvert replacement, check dams and field inlets protecting homes above the lake and the water quality of Geneva Lake below them.
Condition assessment and repair design for a deteriorating crossing: concrete apron, riprap outlet protection and a WDNR-permitted delivery that stopped the scour before it reached the roadway.
Work in or near a waterway touches WDNR chapter 30 and shoreland rules, county zoning, and sometimes a lake district's own standards. On the East Troy dam removal the permitting and grant reporting ran alongside the design from the start, which is why the project moved. We handle applications, agency coordination, reporting and reimbursement requests, and we will tell you honestly early on whether a project is likely to be permittable and fundable in its current form.
If the project is likely to need outside money, start with our free Wisconsin municipal grant and funding directory, which lists the programs these projects normally use and what makes an application competitive.