LCI offers a wide range of geologic, seismic, hazard, and technical review services to clients in the fields of hydropower, dam safety, and water distribution systems. LCI geologists and engineers have decades of experience assessing hazards to regional and local water distribution systems including levees, pipelines, treatment plants, storage tanks, and pump stations. LCI’s experts have served on technical review boards and performed dam safety studies reviewed by regulatory agencies. Our professionals have long histories of successful interactions with regulators from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).
Services include:
- Seismic hazard assessment, fragility studies, and risk analysis
- Fault displacement hazard analysis (probabilistic and deterministic)
- Seismic source and fault rupture source characterization
- Landslide mapping and slope stability analyses
- Geologic and geotechnical site characterization
- Conveyance system mapping and routing evaluations
- Technical peer review
- Regulatory compliance
Representative Project Experience:
- Oroville Dam Spillway Recovery | California Department of Water Resources | Oroville, CA
- Fault Characterization Study and Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazards Analysis for Pit No. 3 Dam | Pacific Gas & Electric | Shasta County, CA
- Perris Dam Seismic Retrofit | California Department of Water Resources | Perris, CA
- BC Hydro Seismic Vulnerability Assessment | High Voltage Electrical Transmission System | G&E Engineering/BC Hydro |British Columbia, Canada
- North Haiwee Dam Seismic Improvement Project | Los Angeles Department of Water & Power | Inyo, County, CA
- On-Call Engineering Geology Support | California Department of Water Resources, Division of Engineering, Project Geology Section |Various with CA
- Penitencia Force Main and Direct Main Retrofit Project | Santa Clara Valley Water District | Santa Clara County, CA
- Van Norman Complex | Los Angeles Department of Water and Power | Los Angeles County, CA
- Paleoseismic Reconnaissance for the Pickwick Landing Dam | Tennessee Valley Authority | Hardin County, TN
- Geologic and Fault Investigation for Anderson Dam | Santa Clara Valley Water District | Santa Clara County, CA
- Seismic Source Characterization for Hydro system-wide risk assessment| Pacific Gas & Electric | Northern CA
- Dam Fragility Study for Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Generating Station │Southern Nuclear Company │ Dothan, Alabama
- Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Lower Columbia River Dam Facilities │ K.S Ware & Associates, Inc. │ Washington
- Peer review of fault displacement hazard and design for Porvenir II Dam | Integral S.A. |Colombia
- Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Pescadero-Ituango Dam | Integral S.A. |Colombia