Public Works Engineering Statement of Qualifications

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PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING EXPERTISE

Municipal infrastructure is the backbone of communities, and at MSA, helping municipalities achieve their infrastructure goals is the backbone of our business.

From bike trails to major roadways, underground utilities and park facilities, our in-house experts provide technical services to help you strengthen and improve your community.

Beyond traditional engineering services, our professionals incorporate sustainable practices where possible, offer innovative solutions to overcome project challenges and have served as the Engineer of Record for numerous municipalities.

We look forward to the opportunity to partner with you and your community to make it the best place to live, play and grow.

Services At a Glance

Roadways

Urban and Rural Roadways

DOT Local Program

Multiuse Trails

Intersections

Streetscaping

Street Lighting

Community Engagement

Model Simulations

Traffic and Roundabouts

Corridor Studies

Data Collection

Traffic Impact Analysis

Traffic Impact

Traffic Signal Design

Analysis,

Micro-simulation

Public Education and Outreach

Standards and

Sanitary Sewer

Boring and Jacking

Capacity Analysis and Modeling

Collection Systems Design

Directional Drilling

Force Mains

I/I Investigation

Impact Fee Analysis

Micro-tunneling

Pumping Stations

River/Stream Crossings

Water Supply and Distribution

Booster Stations

Water Distribution

Water Storage Design

Water Storage Rehabilitation

Water Supply – Well Siting and Design

Water System Modeling and Studies

Wastewater

Sanitary Sewer Service Area Planning

Sewer Rehabilitation

Siphons

Water Resources

Collection System Design

Floodplain Analysis

Master Plans, Models and Studies

Permitting

Pump Stations

River and Stream Restoration

Stormwater Management Facilities

Stormwater Utilities

Wetland Delineation

Construction Services

Record Drawings and As-builts

Construction Administration

Customized Services for your City

Electronic Record Keeping

GIS Data Collection

Materials Testing and Quality Control

On-site Observation

Public Notifications

Related Services

Architecture

Community Planning and Urban Design

Funding

GIS and Asset Management

Surveying

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HOW WE HELP

Consider every impact. Thrive on every level.

A passion for positively impacting life, work and play makes MSA an invaluable partner.

At MSA, we help you plan for and accomplish the things you have to do as well as the things you want to do—to develop a stronger, more sustainable community. Our professionals are committed to improving the communities where we work beyond the scope of any specific project. From consulting on special assessments, to creating the case for support and leading crucial conversations, our public engagement skills and capabilities go well beyond what you’d find from most engineering and planning partners. We’re passionate about positively impacting the way people interact with the world around them, and you’ll see that passion in everything we do. We’re in the trenches with you, working to make the best choices for all your stakeholders.

Municipal infrastructure projects don’t happen in a vacuum.

Projects have wide-reaching impacts on everything from quality of life, to safety, to the ability to support future growth. And, your whole community has a stake in the outcome. MSA takes a global approach to municipal engineering that engages all parties and fully considers the technical, social and economic impact of any project, all while keeping the future wants, needs and goals of the community in mind. As a trusted resource that works as an extension of your own staff, we help you do what’s right for your community. We help develop the kind of places where business owners and residents want to be.

Improving quality of life is a hefty responsibility.

Ensuring your residents have safe water and roads, functional and enjoyable spaces to work, play and interact, and enough room to grow is a demanding job that requires attention to countless details. Whether you’re responding to an urgent situation or making plans to take your community to the next level, partnering with people who are invested in your community is the surest path to success.

At MSA, we know we’re doing much more than engineering a road, designing a water treatment plant or planning a lift station. We’re helping you build a better community, in every sense of the word.

When you work with MSA, you connect with the capabilities to successfully complete virtually any mu nicipal infrastructure project. But, you benefit from more than getting a job done. With dedicated partners working with you side by side, you get solutions that help your community thrive and meet the needs of current and future generations.

Do more than check a box. Make a difference.

FUNDING

MSA offers multifaceted funding services to help communities turn their vision into reality.

We turn every stone in order to find both public and private sources to help you fund your project. We know the ins and outs of a wide variety of programs to help you maximize funding sources, manage timelines and take care of the details to satisfy the fund requirements. With MSA’s support, you can complete the projects you must, and deliver more of the projects you want, all while getting closer to the balanced, sustainable community you’ve always envisioned.

Expert Guidance

Our team partners with you, championing your project vision, advising on what types of projects can be funded and helping with feasibility studies to analyze your project’s potential. We provide full-service grant writing and grant administration for public and private funding options. Our long-standing relationships with agencies allow us to position your projects to be more successful.

Maximizing Funds

MSA helps your community explore funding options that go beyond traditional public sources. Our dedicated funding specialists bring to the table a broad knowledge base of public funding sources, and are resourceful when it comes to identifying private, non-profit and other sources of funding. Financing methods and programs such as tax increment financing (TIF), business districts, and local, state and federal grants and loans can be packaged with community resources to complete the must-do projects as well as create or enhance parks, recreational facilities, libraries and other projects that improve the fabric of your community. We help you strategize by combining our knowledge of a variety of funding sources with our expertise in bundling them together to help keep your costs low.

Municipal Advisor

Why is this important? You can’t afford not to have a Municipal Advisor on your project team. MSA is one of few engineering firms in our area that is a registered Municipal Advisor. As an MSRB-Registered Municipal Advisory Firm, we provide expert guidance to help you determine the best financing options for your project.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING

“The biggest asset MSA offers communities is their knowledge of available funding and their ability to acquire outside funding for projects.

- City Clerk, City of Abbotsford

Why are we reconstructing a roadway or intersection? Why are we studying development impacts? When you go beyond the noise, the answer we regularly hear is safety and efficiency. Everyone who works to improve and protect public spaces shares the responsibility for creating safe and efficient infrastructure. Our experts understand how to analyze, plan, design and construct the transportation network, keeping these two goals top of mind.

Main Street City of La Porte City

Recognizing a critical need to rejuvenate its downtown area and remain regionally viable, City leaders embarked upon a multi-phase endeavor to do just that. The first project was the development of a Downtown Revitalization Plan, which outlined areas of opportunity and improvement, helped restore historic downtown building façades, and secure critical funding for the most significant of all improvements: the transformation of Main Street.

This $4.5-million rehabilitation reconstructed four blocks of Main Street through the community’s downtown. Utilizing conceptual renderings prepared by MSA, City leaders were able to gather public feedback and support for the project, ultimately leading to a successful grant acquisition of $750,000 from the local gaming association.

With the additional grant funding, the impact of the downtown improvements was expanded to include work in the adjacent Wolf Creek Park including a new parking area for the kayak/canoe launch, walking path connecting the park to Main Street as well as to the 67mile Cedar Valley Nature Trail. Other park amenities included benches, lighting, and a 30x40 pavilion for private and community events.

Improve safety. Realize greater efficiency. Behind every project is the “why.”

State Street City of Madison

For more than a decade, the City has directed the transformation of the famed State Street, a couple of blocks at a time, to meet the City’s modern needs. The resulting award-winning design includes a balance of destination space for large and small groups, increased and improved seating opportunities and a wider throughway to accommodate emergency vehicles, food carts and a high volume of pedestrians and bicyclists. The project required extensive staging to accommodate pedestrians and access to adjacent buildings during construction.

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TRANSPORTATION

Confidence that has been earned.

Our resume of successful roundabout engineering and planning design projects provides our clients with the highest confidence to take on more challenging safety and congestion projects.

From right-of-way acquisition services, operational analysis, design, pavement marking, signing, grading and construction staging, we guide you through the selection of the right intersection controls, then manage the entire design and implementation of your project. At the same time, we work to educate, build trust and gain acceptance for your project by applying transparent and traceable decision-making tools.

Milwaukee Street Bridge

City of Janesville

Bridges unite. Some even define a community. The Milwaukee Street Bridge in the City of Janesville dates back to the 1840s, the first crossing of the Rock River within city limits. When its 1913 iteration showed signs of distress, MSA fully replaced the landmark structure while honoring the bridge’s legacy and aesthetics. New, ADA-compliant connections to multiuse trails assure full, accessible use for people of all ages and abilities.

Superior Street and La Crosse Street City of Wisconsin Dells

The reconstruction of Superior Street and La Crosse Street in the City of Wisconsin Dells replaces a critical intersection in the heart of a busy tourism district and addresses deteriorating infrastructure and safety concerns. The project adds a new five-legged mini roundabout at the Superior and La Crosse intersection, upgrades the corridor’s sanitary sewer system, reroutes and replaces sanitary and water mains and upsizes stormwater infrastructure to alleviate localized flooding in the lower reaches of the urban drainage basin.

This project was awarded a Public Works Project of the Year Award in the Small Cities/Rural Communities Category by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Public Works Association.

Mansion Street and State Street

City of Mauston

Mansion Street serves as an access point to many downtown businesses and fronts city hall, police and fire departments, the public library and Riverside Park and boat launch, a key community recreational amenity. MSA’s improvements remedied large areas of failed asphalt and poor street lighting.

New concrete pavement along Mansion Street saved the City money and continued a uniform downtown look of its roadways, with the added advantage of aesthetic features such as colored concrete crosswalks. The installation of LED lighting along the corridor provides better lighting with low-maintenance costs, while at the same time elevating security and allowing pedestrians and cyclists to use this corridor and adjacent park. To create additional parking, MSA’s unique design addressed the close proximity of other adjacent parking lots, buildings and lot topography to maximize access and create 34 parking stalls.

Along State Street, a number of historic properties required Section 106 documentation. This stretch of urban roadway in the City’s downtown required staging to accommodate access to businesses and property throughout the reconstruction. The sidewalk was staged to provide front-door access to businesses where secondary ADA access was unavailable.

Protect your most valuable resource. Accommodate growth in line with regulations.

Wastewater collection infrastructure is a critical component of a thriving community. Similar to the importance of providing consumers with safe water for drinking, reclaiming wastewater so it can be discharged back into the environment with minimal or no harmful effects is paramount. MSA can help you protect our most valuable resource – water – and do it in the face of aging infrastructure, tighter budgets, new regulations and population growth.

Lakewalk Sanitary Sewer Overflow Underground Storage Facility City of Duluth

What was once an abandoned industrial property in the City of Duluth, Minnesota, has been transformed into a parking lot with a park-like setting located adjacent to Duluth’s popular pedestrian Lakewalk. A massive three-million-gallon tank is buried underneath the environmentally friendly parking lot. This tank is the recently completed Lakeside Interceptor Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Basin, which protects Lake Superior from sanitary sewer overflows. MSA designed the tank and parking lot, provided construction oversight and completed environmental investigation, planning and remediation.

Lift Station No. 8 City of Duluth

As part of the City of Duluth’s ongoing sanitary utility capital improvement plan, MSA worked with City staff to replace Lift Station No. 8, which is the final lift station on Park Point, a long sandspit that extends out from the City’s tourist hub and separates Lake Superior from the Duluth harbor basin. The point’s single access is across a 180-foot-tall lift bridge. Lift Station No. 8 pumps all the wastewater from the point in a force main overtop the lift bridge. Project challenges addressed by the design included extremely high heads for a wastewater station, limited property and space in the urban setting, and constant flow of wastewater to the station.

MSA evaluated three pump solutions for the upgrade. Like several other City lift station projects, the City elected to convert the station into a submersible pump station. MSA’s design provided a bypass of the influ ent sewer into the inlets of the existing lift station pumps to provide a completely automatic bypass pumping system that allowed the contractor to access the wet well for the installation of new concrete top and submersible pumps.

This project is the recipient of an ACEC-Minnesota Engineering Excellence Honor Award – Waste and Stormwater Category.

Hiawatha Sewer Extension and Force Main Replacement City of Hiawatha

The City of Hiawatha was in need of two significant solutions to their sanitary sewer system in order to stabilize infrastructure and plan for future community growth.

The first would address routine breakage issues within a portion of sanitary sewer force main. The answer was the construction of 1,523 linear feet of new sanitary sewer force main, expanded from 6- to 8-inch diameter for increased capacity.

The second issue addressed the need for an extension of sanitary sewer gravity main to an undeveloped parcel of land Here, MSA led the design of 1,961 linear feet of new 8-inch gravity main, with six corresponding manholes and necessary appurtenances.

The resulting successful sanitary sewer extension positions the City of Hiawatha to continue to grow, increase their tax revenue, and welcome new residents and businesses to the community.

WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION

Tap into our experience.

Whether it’s mandated that you make improvements to your water system or you are proactively planning for your community’s growth, efficiently improving your water system is a complex process. Determining the most economical way to deliver safe, reliable water to all your customers is an important undertaking that demands vision and expertise. MSA wants to provide that vision and expertise so that your water system can be successful for generations to come.

If it involves water, MSA has the expertise to address it.

East Side Water System Improvements Village of Lake Delton

MSA worked with the Village to install 5,900 linear feet of 16-inch ductile iron water main, a booster/pressure-reducing valve station and a new 750,000-gallon elevated reservoir. Our team also performed horizontal directional drilling for roadway crossings and associated SCADA updates and enhancements that included advance alarming and secure remote access via smart devices.

Water System Improvements Village of Danvers

The Village of Danvers’ water system has high arsenic levels in their raw water supply and had been unable to sustain a treatment process to maintain treated potable water with a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of 0.010

mg/L.

The Village retained MSA to complete planning and preliminary engineering to identify a solution to bring their finished water in compliance with federal regulations. The recommend ed treatment facilities were based on the results and conclusions of pilot testing. The proposed treatment processes include: aeration, chemical oxidation and co-precipitation, flocculation, settling, filtration and post-chlorination.

The Village then hired MSA to design the upgraded water treatment facility, which includes a new treatment plant building with modifications and upgrades to the existing building. Our team also provided resident project representative services.

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Municipalities must contend with a variety of permitting issues related to water. While stormwater management and storm water master planning are often top of mind, issues related to water quality, floodplains, wetlands, watershed planning, dam and lake, river or stream restoration can be equally or even more challenging. These require community officials to have a comprehensive grasp of all their water resources and how best to manage them today, and decades from now. MSA’s dedicated water resources team delivers the expertise you need.

Green Alley Reconstruction City of Dubuque

Throughout the next 20 years, the City expects to convert approximately 240 existing alleys to green alleys. These reconstructed alleys are expected to reduce stormwater runoff within the Bee Branch Watershed by as much as 80%.

MSA developed a calculation tool specific to the Green Alley program that the City uses to evaluate the effectiveness of each alley system based on location, development density, alley dimensions and a number of other factors. Our team has also designed and con structed more than 15 alleys to date.

West Side Greenway City of Sun Prairie

UPSIZED SYSTEM

MSA’s design restored more than 4,000 feet of stream and a half acre of wetland, and reclaimed nearly $1.2 million of property from the 100-year floodplain.

Lindstrom Neighborhood Drainage Improvement Study

City of Lindstrom

MSA assisted the City of Lindstrom in the evaluation of recurrent intersection and yard flooding within the Sylvan Avenue and Olinda Trail neighborhood. To study the situation, MSA constructed a 2D model of the study area to determine the current extent of flooding and to evaluate potential solutions. This powerful tool allowed for better visualization of the issue and better communication between MSA’s staff and the City. The City already had mapped the storm sewer in the neighborhood, so MSA was able to complete this small study in under a week.

Garden Hills Drainage Improvement and Flood Reduction Study City of Champaign

MSA conducted a study and preliminary design of new stormwater management facilities for the Garden Hills Neighborhood, an area of the City prone to flooding that obscures roads and damages homes. The alternative ultimately selected for the project involves acquisition of more than 40 existing residential properties to construct a large regional detention pond. Additionally, complete reconstruction of all streets in the neighborhood are planned so new, adequately sized storm sewer pipes and inlets may be installed to convey flow to the pond.

To help build bridges and get community members involved in the problem-solving, MSA initiated a robust public engagement process as part of the engineering study, facilitated by our in-house planning staff. Electronic and visual preference surveys, a booth at National Night Out, steering committee and neighborhood meetings, focus groups, neighborhood issues mapping and door-to-door postcard deliveries were just some methods used to solicit feedback from the neighborhood.

Adhere to project schedule. Achieve your vision. On site, on track, on-point service.

The construction phase begins after lots of planning, design and public engagement. It is always exciting to see all of that hard work and planning get implemented. However, with construction, there is still a need for attention to detail such as vehicle and pedestrian access, utility shut-offs, communication with residents and businesses, as well as the project schedule and budget.

construction services improve the overall project experience. Our construction staff will help coordinate communication between the municipality, contractor and project stakeholders. MSA will monitor the project schedule and budget throughout construction. Working with residents and businesses along the project is critical to make sure they are informed. MSA recognizes the importance of pedestrian and vehicular access as well as minimizing utility service interruptions during construction. MSA works alongside contractors to obtain detailed records of the constructed facilities and to enforce compliance with plans and specifications.

RELATED SERVICES

Customize your needs. Stand out from the crowd. Tailor-fit centerpieces for today and tomorrow.

Your community’s light already shines bright, and there is always a means to up the wattage. Whether planning for the future or for the here-and-now, we create custom centerpieces and long-term plans that make bold statements and lasting memories. The possibilities are endless. Think big, and consult with us about how to make it happen.

Community Planning and Urban Design

The planning and design specialists at MSA an help you take a worn-down, disjointed or undeveloped area and transform it into a vibrant and sustainable space. We help you identify the potential opportunities that are both viable and transformative. We will assess what will work best within your site’s context, taking advantage of existing infrastructure, cultural/social resources, and amenities (woodlands, viewpoints, transportation access, etc.). Even where regulatory restrictions and development limitations seem intense, we can help you create spaces that look as good as they function.

Surveying

Municipalities need accurate information about the land they own and their boundaries before a project can start. Whether a project is receiving public or private funding, understanding the situation on the ground is often a prerequisite for financing. Just as important, quality surveys identify property rights and help stave off conflicts and boundary disputes down the road. Communities that have a firm grasp of public-private land features and functions can more successfully plan for and build the projects of tomorrow.

Architecture

You have big design ideas. But building code, review agencies, time and budget constraints and even public opinion can complicate the process. Whether you are a municipality going through your first building project or a developer with an entire portfolio of past projects, the right partner is critical to navigating the challenges and preserving your vision.