It was a gorgeous day to clean up River Park in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. About 50 volunteers showed up April 28 to replace the landscape borders around the playground, mulch the many trees in the park, and pick up trash and litter at the River Park Earth Day Cleanup event sponsored by Fehr Graham. It wasn’t just a day to wor...
"Passing by projects every day" is the best part of being an engineer, said Fehr Graham's Mick Gronewold, owner and professional engineer. Gronewold was interviewed by 23 WIFR during National Engineers Week 2018 at the Mercyhealth Rockford campus.
Well 45, at the intersection of Stanley and Cedar streets, is getting an addition that will house a new radium filtration system. This will help the City of Rockford maintain the highest quality water standards in compliance with Environmental Protection Agency standards. The well pumps and treats water that is distributed throughout Roc...
The cold didn’t keep 19 Fehr Graham employees and their family members from removing more than five cubic yards of trash from the Urbana/St. Joe drainage ditch on Boneyard Creek Community Day on April 7. “Our team really cares about the community in which they live and work,” said Michelle Brown, Boneyard Creek Community Day Marketing Chairwoman an...
Professional Structural Engineer Mary Coombe Bloxdorf was given the Illinois Award today for her contribution to the professional engineering industry during her career. Coombe Bloxdorf was honored at the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers’ annual convention at the Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Normal. The Illinois Society...
Our surveyors do what it takes to work safely and complete projects. Brian Dunt and Jake Kaiser, who work in our West Union, Iowa, office, took a trip to Waukon in the early hours of the morning - 4 a.m. to be exact. The pair needed to place water flow monitoring equipment inside manholes in high-traffic areas, so they decided overnight would...
Construction on Villa Grove, Illinois, $4.6 million water treatment plant started in May 2018. All the underground piping has been relocated. Leander Construction has poured the foundation footings for the south, east and north sides of the building and the base of the backwash tank and are preparing to pour the walls for the backwash tank. In addi...
Aging water systems and the challenges that come with them are a reality for many communities in the United States. The Village of Ludlow in north-central Champaign County is no exception. One of the Village’s water supply wells is nearly 70 years old, the elevated tower is nearing 65, and most of the treatment plant is more than three decades old....
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Andrew Trocki as an Engineer. Trocki joins the team in Fehr Graham’s Rochelle office. He earned his bachelor of science degree in Engineering from Bradley University in May. Trocki will focus on municipal and private-sector clients. “We are very ...
"Passing by projects every day" is the best part of being an engineer, said Fehr Graham's Mick Gronewold, owner and professional engineer. Gronewold was interviewed by 23 WIFR during National Engineers Week 2018 at the Mercyhealth Rockford campus.
In the March 2018 edition of xyHt magazine, Fehr Graham Survey Manager Scott Immel describes how monitoring improved construction processes for the replacement of an 85-year-old bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa. The Savanna-Sabula truss bridge, named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, opened to traffic in 1932. In the early 201...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Heather Pozarycki as a Project Assistant in its Cedar Rapids office. Pozarycki joined Fehr Graham in May and provides support to the team by handling incoming and outgoing communication, maintaining company data and serving as point person for ...
In the May 2018 edition of Road & Bridges magazine, Fehr Graham Survey Manager Scott Immel describes how monitoring improved construction processes for the replacement of an 85-year-old bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa allowed crews to work more accurately – in real-time, to be exact. The Savanna-Sabula truss bridge, named to the National Re...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott Leiser as senior accounting clerk. Leiser’s duties include accounts payable and receivable, invoicing and payroll functions. He also provides accounting support for each of the firm’s 10 offices in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Leiser works...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Doug Fabian as an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist. As part of the Environmental Health and Safety team, Fabian develops reports, completes regulatory forms and documentation, collects samples, and follows established regulatory procedu...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced today the promotion of Adam Recker to Land Surveyor. An Earlville native, Recker was promoted from Survey Crew Chief after earning his Professional Land Surveyor license. He works in Fehr Graham’s Manchester, Iowa, office. Recker joined Fehr Graham in 2012, when the firm a...
Local officials have been pushing for some time for a design and construction upgrade to the nearly 50-year-old Interstate 57/74 interchange, the scene of numerous accidents and truck rollovers in recent years. Now this project is a reality. Before construction can start on the new interchange, utilities must be relocated. The Urbana &a...
In late spring, 19 acres on the west side of West Branch, Iowa, will begin its transformation from green space to a multiuse park designed by Fehr Graham engineers and landscape architects. Cubby Park will be home to two Little League baseball fields, one softball diamond, one pickleball court, one playground and walking trails. Infrastructure to s...
The city of Villa Grove, Illinois, hired Fehr Graham to design and build an Emergency Services Center. The city tore down the old fire station to make way for a new water treatment plant designed by Fehr Graham. City officials were interested in building a single-story, nearly 8,000-square-foot emergency services building on the west side of Sycamo...
Fehr Graham was recently awarded $1 million in engineering fees to upgrade the city of Waukon's wastewater treatment plant. The system struggles to meet permit limits because of its age and because of high industrial loading. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a compliance order that requires the upgrades, and the Iowa Department of Natural...
