Municipal Engineering Services for Smaller Towns and Villages
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Kunkel Engineering Group is a municipal engineering consulting firm serving municipal clients throughout south central Wisconsin. We are located in Beaver Dam, just one hour from Milwaukee, Madison, and the Fox Valley.
We understand that smaller communities are not immune to big problems.
The challenges presented by growth, community development, aging facilities and dated technology are not limited just to burgeoning cities. Smaller communities, however, function with more limited resources.
We are engineering consultants with more than 25 years of experience helping Wisconsin communities overcome big challenges.
Think of us as your city engineer... without the title or the benefits package.
"Building Relationships that Build Communities™"
Johnson Creek Well #3 Radium Removal
After discovering excessive amounts of radium in the water supply begin generated from Well #3 in Johnson Creek, the Wisconsin DNR required the village to take the well off line. That was in 1987.
The DNR’s findings showed some 6.3 pCi/l in the water; 5 pCi/l is the level permitted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for clean drinking water.
This finding forced the Village to submit water samples once each quarter until 4 consecutive quarters demonstrated acceptable radium levels.
On September 17, 2002 the DNR issued a notice of non-compliance to the Village which set in motion the initiative to remove the contaminant and get the well back on line.
Kunkel Engineering stepped in to provide radium removal services and the design and construction of a radium treatment facility as well as the renovation design and construction for the well house. A Layne OX Hydrous Manganese Oxide (HMO) system was installed for removing the radium.
The well was put back into full service in 2007 following final radium treatment and testing.
The total cost of the project including the well house rehabilitation and radium treatment facilities was $1,364,000.00.
(Click to see Johnson Creek Well #3 Radium Removal location on the map.)
We are engineering consultants with more than 25 years of experience helping Wisconsin communities overcome big challenges.
Think of us as your city engineer... without the title or the benefits package.
"Building Relationships that Build Communities™"