Water resources projects have service lives which often exceed 100 years.  As the facility ages, owners face the challenges of extending its service life and modernizing the facility to meet today’s criteria and standards while still maintaining operations.

Owners often find that their existing facilities also offer the best opportunity to gain additional water resources or hydroelectric power generation benefits at minimum cost and with fewest environmental constraints.

Keys to success include experience in condition assessment of heavy structures and equipment, expertise in evaluation of residual service life, vision and creativity to identify potential facility upgrade opportunities, guided by experience with successful solutions developed on other similar projects.

CAI can bring our expertise and wealth of project experience to bear on your water or hydropower assets to help you develop the best asset management plan for the future.

Asset Management  Expertise:

• Water and hydropower project inspections and asset evaluation
• Dam and reservoir enlargement
• Spillway and outlet works capacity upgrades
• Power plant upgrades and repowering
• Turbine/generator  efficiency and capacity upgrades
• Facility modernization and automation
• Asset management planning

Representative Project Experience

• Middle Fork Hydroelectric Project, Placer County Water Agency, CA
• Pardee Reservoir Enlargement Project, East Bay Municipal Utility District, CA
• Repowering of 3-MW Puueo Hydro Project, Hawaii Electric Light Company, HI
• Enloe Hydroelectric Project (9MW), Okanogan County Public Utility District, WA
• Enlargement of Gatun Spillway, Panama Canal Authority, Panama