Gas Distribution Systems

Helping modernize the natural gas infrastructure.

Whether you’re installing a new gas main that stretches through multiple subdivisions, communities, and counties or replacing a 100-year-old facility, our gas distribution team delivers on technical expertise, efficiency, and safety.

Metro Consulting Associates offers in-house, multidisciplinary expertise resulting in high-value results for your new, replacement, or existing gas lines and supporting facilities. Our service coverage supports your project from initial landowner engagement, to engineering design phases, all the way through post construction restoration, and asset location.

Tracking your assets in the field is key to pro-actively managing and modernizing the country’s gas infrastructure. We leverage advanced technology to locate and digitize your assets and their location in manner that is more complete, detailed, and accurate compared to traditional survey techniques.

Our gas distribution team prioritizes safety standards with personnel trained and certified in Operator Qualification (OQ) programs, OSHA, and more so we can hit the ground running on your next project.

Key Services

Land Surveying

Pipeline Locating
Pipeline profile depth surveys
High precision monitoring
GPS control network
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
Boundary surveys
Topographic surveys
Parcel mapping
ROW acquisition exhibits for landowners
Wetland surveys/mapping
Floodplain surveys
FEMA elevation surveys
Route surveys
Property and easement descriptions
Construction staking
As-Built surveys/GIS
Title commitment review

Civil Engineering

Hydrological/hydraulic studies
Soil erosion and sedimentation control plans and details
Permitting support

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
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

ROW 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

Our Partnership Approach

Capabilities and expertise of a large firm.

Agile teams and budget-friendly resources of a smaller firm.

Maximizes efficiency and safety during the entire project lifecycle.

Featured Projects

Churubusco Gas Improvement Project

Metro Consulting Associates provided pre-acquisition, right of way acquisition, land surveying, and construction support services for this new underground gas line and two regulator stations to increase area capacity and reliability.

Owensboro to Catlettsburg (OWC) Replacement Pipeline

Originally constructed in 1973, the 24-inch OWC petroleum pipeline routes through rocky terrain, which contributed to integrity issues requiring 40-miles of replacement pipe. The survey team’s project office was based in Winchester, just 30 minutes east of Lexington, a mid-way point along the pipeline route.

Shipshewana Gas Line

Metro Consulting Associates is providing a full suite of land surveying services to support right-of-way acquisition, routing and re-routing, construction, and post-construction activities for this new gas line to service residents in Shipshewana and Middlebury. Key services include, but are not limited to, route surveys, topographic surveys, easement exhibits, constructions staking, and as-built construction surveys.

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