Essential and Invisible
Your most valuable and essential assets are invisible: Pipelines and pumps are some of the most vital infrastructure supporting our communities, though we rarely see them. Transmission and conveyance projects involve multiple disciplines and require clear communication and collaboration for success. Our team seeks to create success for your transmission and conveyance projects through careful planning, coordination, and communication with all interested parties.
Our Approach
KJ approaches transmission and conveyance assets from the owner’s perspective. Each pipeline and pump station serves a larger purpose to the community, whether bringing water or taking away waste. KJ delivers design, rehabilitation, planning, technology, and program or construction management services that benefit owners and end users. See an overview of our work on the award-winning $580M Silicon Valley Clean Water (SVCW) Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade (RESCU) Program below.
KJ worked as an extension of SVCW staff, helping to develop the project definition, funding strategy, and schedule for three separate projects: replacement/rehabilitation of conveyance pump stations and controls; a 9-mile wastewater force main with 3.5 miles of 16-foot diameter tunnel in a dense urban environment; and a new 80 MGD lift station, headworks, and influent pipeline. These projects were each delivered using Progressive Design Build delivery format, some of the largest PDB projects in the water-environment industry.
60+
Large diameter projects in the past 10 years
4" to 144"
Diameter pipeline design
55 Miles
Single project length pipeline design
450+
Pump stations since 1986
100+
Miles of trenchless projects
Key Services
Repair, Rehabilitation and Replacement
Pipeline rehabilitation and repair projects extend the usefulness of aging infrastructure. We perform condition assessment, project definition and prioritization, and designs for rehabilitation and repair to extend the usefulness of aging infrastructure and save communities the cost, complexity, and inconvenience of wholesale replacement projects.
Pump Stations
With more than 450+ pump station projects involving potable water, wastewater, chemicals, and solids handling for conveyance systems and treatment facilities, we deliver solutions tailored to your pump station priorities. Our services include hydraulic, structural, mechanical and electrical system design and control system implementation.
Tunneling and Trenchless Solutions
Designs using trenchless and tunneling technology reduce community disturbance and can improve project outcomes with fewer schedule delays and lower costs. For our award-winning work on the SVCW RESCU Gravity Pipeline project, using a tunnel boring machine reduced ground disturbance to allow long distances between shafts through dense urban environments.
Core Services
We provide a full range of transmission and conveyance services for Drinking Water, Recycled Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Applications
- Pipeline and Pump Station Planning and Design
- Pipeline and Pump Station Condition Assessments
- Asset Management and Maintenance Planning
- Repair, Rehabilitation and Replacement Strategies
- Corrosion Management Plans
Current Projects
Arkansas Valley Conduit
A long-awaited project to bring reliable water to rural Colorado communities for municipal and industrial use, the Arkansas Valley Conduit (AVC) was in limbo for decades. With special meaning for local KJ staff, this project will serve 50,000 residents across 39 communities in Colorado. Read more here.
Alvarado 2nd Extension Pipeline
The Alvarado 2nd Extension Pipeline Project involves constructing 10 miles of water mains in Mission Valley and Mission Bay, including new transmission mains in heavily traveled public right-of-way using both trenchless and open cut. This project will improve water reliability and distribution in San Diego.
Tarrant Regional Cedar Creek Pipeline Replacement
As part of a larger pipeline integrity program, Tarrant Regional Water District in Texas is replacing more than 10 miles of its Cedar Creek Reservoir pipeline, originally built in the 1970s. This project involves replacing the existing 72-inch pipe segments with 90- and 102-inch pipe diameters, a major undertaking.
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Related Projects
Silicon Valley Clean Water
Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade
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