Electric Distribution/Transmission
Improving the aging grid for stability and reliability.
Knowing your focus is executing system rebuilds, redundancy, and ongoing grid maintenance, Metro Consulting Associates (MCA) continually delivers on technical expertise within your aggressive timelines. Our in-house, multidisciplinary teaming approach simplifies your project needs whether that includes easement acquisition, routing support, or vegetation management for electric distribution and transmission lines and their supporting substations.
Key Services
Land Surveying
- Route Surveys
- Right of way acquisition exhibits for landowners
- GPS control network
- PLSS CAD-compatible topographic surveys
- Parcel mapping
- Floodplain surveys
- Construction staking
- As-Built surveys
- Title commitment review
- Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)/GPR
- Property and easement descriptions
- ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
- Boundary surveys
- 3D static scanning
Right of Way Acquisition
- Corridor route evaluation and selection
- Right of way consulting and acquisition
- Property negotiations
- Project management
- Records management
- GIS mapping
- Ownership research and title services
- Document and exhibit preparation
- Encroachment management
Ecological
- Wetland assessments, delineations, and limits
- Federal, state, and local permitting
- Wetlands
- Inland lake and streams
- 100-year floodplain
- State violation resolution and regulatory compliance
- Stream restoration and monitoring
- Wetland mitigation and restoration design
- Wetland mitigation monitoring and report preparation
- Wetland surveys and mapping
- Threatened and endangered species reviews, habitat assessment, and species-specific surveys
- Natural feature assessments
- Exotic/invasive species management
- Shoreline and stream naturalization/restoration plans
- Tree tagging, identification, and location
Distinction Through Technology
Leverage advanced technologies within a complete digital ecosystem.
Compatible deliverables that integrate with your systems and tools.
Increases productivity, accuracy, and asset management requirements.
