Kasigluk Nunap projects - Alaska Village Electric Cooperative

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The photos on the left show the new, elevated, bulk fuel tank farm in Akula Heights and some of the local residents that were trained as welders and hired to work on the projects. The middle photo shows the huge tent that provided workers a warm, sheltered place to fabricate (weld) tanks and paint components of the different projects. This enclosed tent allowed work to continue year round and provided some local jobs. One photo on the left shows a section of a wind turbine tower that was painted inside the tent. The top three photos on the right show some of the distribution work involved in the projects. One photo shows a portion of the new intertie that was constructed. Sam Lindquist (left, on pole) and another AVEC lineman are framing a new power pole and below them a crane is shown driving piles for anchoring the new poles. The photo on the bottom right shows one of the three wind turbines being erected. Continued on page 8. ALASKA VILLAGE AUGUST 2006 5
Nunapitchuk Projects, con’t from pg. 4 Council; the City of Nunapitchuk; and Lower Kuskokwim School District. The following firms provided services for various parts of the project: STG, Inc. provided overall construction management; Hattenburg Dilley & Linnel provided the majority of the layout and overall project design, particularly related to civil engineering; Coffman Engineers designed the wind turbine foundations; and Dryden & LaRue and Nana Pacific designed the intertie upgrades and river crossing. AVEC’s engineering staff designed the majority of the Akula Heights power plant and Nunapitchuk standby generator module. AVEC’s operations department completed the majority of the power plant, standby module and intertie construction. Project Summary Following is a summary of the upgrades for Nunapitchuk, Akula Heights and Kasigluk. Old Kasigluk Upgrades • Remove from service the school’s old tank farm. • Install a new 1000-gallon intermediate tank at existing school tank farm. • Take the existing washeteria tank farm out of service and install a new double-wall tank near the existing washeteria site for the Kasigluk Traditional Council. Akula Heights Upgrades • Provide a new co-located tank farm near the community center with individual cells for AVEC, the school, and Kasigluk, Inc. • Locate a new power plant east of the proposed tank farm location. • Install new dispensers for gasoline and diesel at the river with distribution piping from the co-located Kasigluk, Inc. tanks. • Supply community buildings with recovered heat from AVEC’s power plant. • Provide school with a new intermediate fuel storage tank. • Develop the wind generation site south of the power plant. Nunapitchuk Upgrades • Take the existing AVEC power plant and tank farm out of service. • Take the teacher housing tank farm (old school) out of service. • Install the backup generator from Kasigluk. Intertie Upgrades • Upgrade existing distribution intertie between Nunapitchuk, Akula Heights and Old Kasigluk. Alternative Energy • Develop wind generation and access at Akula Heights. • Install power line extension to the wind site. • Provide for recovered heat from the new AVEC power plant to local community buildings. Amalgamated Approach Since these projects are all interrelated, AVEC and the other participants agreed to work on them using an amalgamated, or consolidated, approach. This allowed the construction management team to maximize the various resources on hand, resulting in cost savings. For example, heavy equipment, like a crane, can be brought in and used on the different projects, instead of shipping heavy equipment into and out of the village for projects constructed at different times. A lot of the work involving the use of heavy equipment and pile driving for foundations was done during the winter when the ground was frozen to minimize impact to the environment. Local Hire AVEC and the Denali Commission support and encourage local hire for the projects we work on. In anticipation of needing trained welders, AVEC’s construction manager, STG, Inc., provided welding training for the following Kasigluk residents: Moses White Jr.; Gerald Dementieff III; Gabriel Guest; Wilson Twitchell; Stanley Berlin; Walter Anvil; Patrick Beaver; and Janelle Maxie. Each student received at least one certification in “Butt-Joint Fillet Welds” and were later hired to work on the projects. A total of 2,400 manhours were involved in this particular program, providing an initial local payroll in excess of $16,000. The local payroll amount increased after that as local residents were hired to work on various projects over the past three seasons. The average local hire rate for the projects (to date) are: 2004 - 64%; 2005 - 16%; and 2006 - 9% Kasigluk and 16% Nunapitchuk. Thank You! The projects aren’t fully completed yet, but AVEC would like to express sincere appreciation to everybody involved in this huge undertaking, especially the personnel working in the field, the power plant operators and the residents who had to put up with a lot of noise, disruption and strangers. It was a hard decision to select the new plant site in a different community as it meant the loss of jobs for Nunapitchuk’s plant operators. However, we heard one Nunapitchuk elder is happy the power plant moved out of town because now his house is more peaceful and quiet! Thanks to continued funding from the Denali Commission, AVEC is upgrading our generating facilities, one community at a time. Quyana. 8 AUGUST 2006 ALASKA VILLAGE
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