Fish Springs Pump Station

Two BJG designed Northern Nevada pump station projects are built and ready to pump water to Reno area residents.  BJG performed architectural and structural design, construction support, and structural observation services for the two projects.  We were contracted by Eco:Logic Engineering to perform the work and they were a pleasure to work with.  Eco:Logic was the lead consultant on the two projects that are intended to help meet future municipal and industrial water demands for the Reno and surrounding areas.

The first constructed of the two developments was the Fish Springs water supply project.  The finished product consists of a 4400 square foot booster pump station and six 620 square foot well houses in the fish springs area 1.5 hours or so north of Reno.  The six well houses pump water to the booster pump station and the booster pump station shoots the water up over a hill and into the Lemmon Valley/Stead area just North of Reno.  Check out the fish springs ranch water project web site here.  There is almost 30 miles of 30 inch transmission main running from the booster station to the Lemmon Valley/Stead area.  Included in this building is a hypochlorite tank room that is recessed 3′-4″ for hypochlorite spill containment.  The photograph below was taken in February, it shows the pump station as it was nearing completion.

TMWA North Virginia Pump Station

The second constructed was the TMWA North Virginia pump station (seen in the photo taken a few weeks ago).  This building is located near the University of Nevada, Reno and was designed to blend in with the surrounding residential zone.  The building floor plan is very similar to the Fish Springs pump station.  Since it does not have a hypochlorite tank room, it is slightly smaller (3800 square feet) than the Fish Springs building.

Both buildings are constructed with CMU walls and open web steel joists under metal deck roof.  Both buildings contain 5 large pumps and 1 large storage tank.  BJG designed the pedestals for the pumps and the storage tanks.  BJG also provided the design for a structural steel catwalk in each building that is suspended from the open web steel joists.  The catwalk will be used for maintenance purposes to access mechanical louvers.

Vidler Pipes

Do you think these are large water projects?  Take a look at the tiny man next to the pipes in the photo below.  This is before the Fish Springs building was placed over the pipes.  These pipes were eventually attached to pumps that BJG designed the footings for.