AMERICAN WEATHER 

                           & HYDROLOGY, LLC

Dams, Power Plants, Transmission Lines, Pipes, Oil Rigs: 

Structural Safety, Seismic Analysis, Sizing, Repair 

Charles B. Pyke, Ph.D., Principal Scientist and Primary Expert Witness of  Environmental Science & Energy, Inc., offers structural and seismic analysis of the integrity of dams, spillways, hydroelectric power plants, other power plants, transmission lines, water supply and sewage pipes (above and below ground), oil wells, and oil rigs worldwide, plus repair, reconstruction, restoration, or replacement of these structures and facilities.  These include, but are not limited to:  [Many of the structures, facilities, and services offered may apply to the earthquake-damaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti.]

Structures and Facilities:

• Dams, federal, state, and local, in the United States, plus dams in Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

• Hydroelectric power plants - large, mid-size, and small - in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

• Nuclear power plants - U.S. and other countries.

• Other power plants:  coal, oil, natural gas, and other - U.S., Canada, Mexico, and overseas.

• Electrical transmission lines and telephone poles.

• Cell phone towers.

• Water reclamation plants.

• River levees.

• River channels.

• Aqueducts, open and closed.

• Water supply pipelines and conduits, above and below ground.

• Sewage pipes and conduits, above and below ground.

• Natural gas pipelines, above and below ground.

• Other public utility facilities.

• Oil wells and offshore oil rigs.

Services Offered:

• Inspection of the structure or facility.

• Construction defects analysis.

• Structural analysis for damage, deterioration, or corrosion over the years.

• Seismic hazards and seismic safety analysis

• Protection against maximum credible earthquake.

• Protection against maximum credible wind event.

• Sizing of dams and spillways for probable maximum flood or other major storm and flood events

• Repair of defects.

• Reconstruction or restoration - partial or total.

• Demolition and replacement of entire structure or facility.

• Removal of silt and debris from reservoirs.

• Removal of silt, choking vegetation, natural debris, and man-made refuse  from river and stream bottoms.

• Research into improvement in the construction of various structures or facilities.