Hydropower and Water Resources

Hydro Relicensing
In addition to assisting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with the review of license applications, Berger's Energy Services Group is involved with the preparation of license and re-license applications for utility companies. We have direct experience with preparing traditional license applications, applicant prepared Environmental Assessments (EAs), and third party EAs/and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs). Berger facilitates collaboration with stakeholders, designs and conducts studies, analyses data, negotiates with agencies and interest groups, and prepares applications. Berger's FERC expertise is exhibited in the FERC re-licensing handbooks that Berger has prepared. These are posted on the bergerenergy web site.

Hydroengineering Services
The Berger Energy Services Group's final design services include civil, mechanical, and electrical design for the redevelopment of generating stations and structural and mechanical designs for the rehabilitation of dams, spillways, and intake works. In addition, Berger staff has developed a design for controlling water leakage from older, large unlined intake/penstocks.

Recreation Land Use, and Cultural Studies
Berger is the industry leader in recreation, land use, and cultural studies for hydropower and water resource projects. The following are areas Berger has experience in:

• Shoreline Management Plans
• Recreation Survey
• Recreation Safety
• White Water Boating Studies
• Cultural Resource Studies
• GIS/GPS Data Sets
• Resource Economics

Environmental Studies 
Berger has expertise designing and conducting environmental studies for hydropower and water resource projects. For these types of projects, Berger has conducted fisheries studies, wetland delineation, aquatic habitat mapping, sediment and erosion control studies, wildlife and terrestrial inventories, and water quality and quantity studies.

We offer industry leading services in the following areas

• Headwater Benefits
• Re-Licensing
• Land Management
• License Revisions
• Private Sector Re-licensing Activities
• Recreation Planning
• Third Party Agreements
• Evaluation of Hydro Projects
• Fisheries Studies

Signature Hydropower/Water Resources Projects

• Fifteen Mile Falls
• 3D GIS/GPS Water Quality Modeling Project
• Belleville Hydroelectric Project Transmission Line
• Big Creek No. 4 Hydroelectric Project
• Catawba-Wateree Shoreline Management Plan
• Upper and Lower Collinsville Hydroelectric Projects
• Cooper Lake Hydroelectric Project
• Crescent and Vischer Ferry Hydroelectric Projects
• Crystal Creek Pumped Storage Project
• Cultural Resource Investigations Neal Shoals Hydroelectric Project
• Stevens Creek Cultural Resource Investigation
• Duke Development and Management Strategies for Public Recreation Areas
• Idaho Snake River Hydroelectric Project
• National Services for FERC
• Natural Gas Pipeline Annual Report Compliance Inspections for FERC
• Holyoke Hydroelectric Project Recreation Land Management Plan
• Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Project EA Amendment
• Osage River Basin Headwater Benefits Energy Gains (HWBEG) Assessment