Through long-term experience of working together on a variety of projects and McMillen’s reputation in the industry, Long View’s owner Steve Padula believed McMillen to have a similar approach to success as his own. With McMillen’s business philosophy founded on the principles of integrity, high-quality work, and commitment to employees, it seemed a natural fit.

“We have always believed it’s not about getting bigger, but about challenging ourselves to increase our technical proficiency while continuing to put clients first,” explains Mara McMillen. “We can now offer licensing capabilities with a group of people we highly respect and who believe in the same company philosophy as ourselves.”

Collectively, Long View has more than 60 years of technical expertise in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) licensing, relicensing, and compliance. Concentrated in hydroelectric project consulting, they help license applicants design and implement licensing processes through strategic planning, process design, consultation support, project management, and document preparations—all of which are tailored to the unique needs of the client’s project.

McMillen serves the hydroelectric, dam, and environmental restoration industries with a staff of industry leaders in regulatory, environmental, engineering, and construction services. This woman-owned 8(a) business has projects located throughout the Western United States, Canada, and Central America and offers clients the senior capabilities of a national firm with the flexibility of a highly focused small firm.

The integration of Long View’s staff brings licensing and relicensing strengths allowing McMillen to be uniquely positioned to provide services throughout the entire lifecycle of a project—making them more competitive in the market and provide even greater value to their clients.

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McMillen was founded with the purpose of providing environmental and natural resources, engineering and construction services. From our roots in the water resources and fisheries markets, we have expanded to serve the hydropower, transportation, environmental, hydraulic and hydrology, and water-resource markets. Our in-house design and in-house construction capabilities are supported by a staff of over 120 employees based in the following office locations: Boise, Idaho; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Vancouver, and Bellingham, Washington; Wasilla, Alaska; and Kelowna, BC, Canada. Contact Marissa Emmons, (208) 342-4214,  for more information.

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]]> http://mcmillen-llc.com/2013/02/05/mcmillen-completes-acquisition-of-long-view-associates-inc/feed/ 0 http://mcmillen-llc.com/2013/01/30/mcmillens-springfield-hatchery-project-featured-in-outdoor-idaho-episode/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mcmillens-springfield-hatchery-project-featured-in-outdoor-idaho-episode http://mcmillen-llc.com/2013/01/30/mcmillens-springfield-hatchery-project-featured-in-outdoor-idaho-episode/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:01:52 +0000 admin http://mcmillen-llc.com/?p=452 Continue reading →]]> McMillen is currently working on the  Springfield Hatchery Design-Build Project, which  was featured on Idaho Public Television as part of the State of Idaho Salmon population and recovery effort. The facility will support rearing up to 1.0 Million Sockeye smolts annually addressing the next phase of the Snake River Sockeye Captive Broodstock Program – population re-colonization. We completed the design and started construction in June 2012 on the following project components:

• new 13,000 square foot hatchery building housing incubation, early rearing, and administration areas
• 3,000 square foot utility/shop building
• development of a 50 cfs groundwater supply system
• head tank with degassing towers
• 22 outdoor concrete raceways enclosed with a steel roof structure
• cleaning waste treatment pond
• on-site residences for hatchery staff

McMillen construction staff, Brian Markwell and Tony Minic (operator), were captured in the short video while working on the earlier demolition phase of the project.

To learn more about the State of Idaho Salmon population and recovery effort, watch Idaho Public Television’s Outdoor Idaho episode, “Idaho Salmon”.

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said McMillen LLC of Boise, Idaho, would build the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project — one of 14 high-priority infrastructure projects identified by the Obama administration to benefit from an expedited permitting and environmental review process. The project features about 280 miles of pipeline, several pumping plants and two water treatment plants.

When completed, the project will, for the first time, provide a long-term water supply to about 203,000 people in Navajo communities, as well as 1,300 people in the Jicarilla Apache Nation and about 47,000 people in the city of Gallup.

Construction will begin this summer, and water is expected to start flowing in two to three years — welcome news to hundreds of Navajo Nation households that now have to haul water.

The project is part of a water rights settlement that resolves a 25-year dispute over how much water the Navajo Nation should receive from the San Juan River.

“This construction contract award marks a major milestone for this high-priority infrastructure project as we work to implement the historic water rights settlement that will deliver clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people and offer certainty to water users across the West,” Salazar said. “In the short term, this project is expected to create hundreds of high-paying construction jobs; in the long term, the permanent water supply will vastly improve the quality of life and offer greater economic security for the Navajo Nation.”

The project, which eventually will deliver about 37,376 acre-feet of water annually from the San Juan River Basin, will also allow the city of Gallup to stop mining groundwater. Without the pipeline, the city’s future would be uncertain, city officials have said.

Today’s contract is for the first phase of the project, which will lay about 4 miles of pipeline about 8 miles north of Gallup in western New Mexico. Construction of future pipeline sections will be carried out by Reclamation, the city of Gallup, Navajo Nation and the Indian Health Service with some financial backing from Reclamation.

Interior estimates that 400 to 450 jobs will be created from the various contracts to be awarded within the first year; that will increase to 600 to 650 jobs at the peak of construction.

If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview, please call Marissa Emmons at (208) 342-4214 or email marissa.emmons@mcmillen-llc.com.

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As a Senior Mechanical Project Manager, Don brings more than 30 years of experience in the licensing/permitting, design, operation/maintenance and project management of power generation facilities, with strong experience hydropower, cogeneration, wind power and machinery design.  Don offers a wide range of experience in power generating projects, including feasibility studies and concept development, water conveyance systems, power piping and valves, internal combustion engines, hydraulic turbines, wind turbines, gas turbines, induction and synchronous generators, controls design, plant operations/maintenance planning, and management.  Don has acted as project manager for a number of hydroelectric projects and has been responsible for mechanical systems design in power projects as well as completed the bid documents for turbine-generator procurement. Don has personally started up four generation projects.

The site had plenty of head, but the main stream of the nearby Coloma River had enough flow to accommodate a project able to produce only three or four megawatts.

McMillen, serving as project manager, and other team members decided to take advantage of several smaller streams flowing down the slopes about six kilometers west of the river. They came up with a design for a small dam with water intakes on each of the six streams, with all of the flow then collected in a six-kilometer-long collector pipeline. The combined flow was large enough that it allowed the project to expand to 9.7 megawatts.

The project team thought the pipe could send all of the collected water to a small reservoir and dam that would serve as the project’s headworks. Hydraulics of the intake and collector pipe locations dictated that the reservoir and dam be built at an elevation of 647 meters. But there was only one suitable location on the Choloma River that hit that mark. And the conditions there were less than ideal: no bedrock and lots of clay, sand and subsurface water.

The project team decided to look in another direction. On a nearby ridge, workers cleared a site, blasted away bedrock and constructed a large, steel water tank at an elevation of 647 meters. A 42-inch, 2,950-meter-long steel pipe was installed to carry the water to a powerhouse 460 meters below the tank.

The project was designed and constructed to meet international standards for green power. The project owner has applied for green certification to be able to sell output as sustainable energy.

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In 1900, women workers were just 18 percent of the labor market in the United States. Today that number is edging up to the 50 percent mark. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, women now make up the majority of professional and service occupations. And, for the first time, women outnumbered men in finishing college and holding advanced degrees in 2011.

The Idaho Business Review recognizes women in business and annually applauds them, from public, private and charitable business sectors, giving credence to work ethic, innovation and balance. The IBR is proud to name the 50 Idaho Women of the Year for 2012 and honors these women and their commitment to excellence.

“This is the seventh year we have celebrated professional women for their achievements, as business leaders and community builders and for their forward thinking,” said Sean Evans, publisher and vice president of the Idaho Business Review.

This year, more than 180 nominations poured in from Moscow to Idaho Falls – 50 more than in 2011. Half finished the extensive application process and then were rated by past Women of the Year honorees. Each applicant was ranked on a scale of 1 – 5 (with 5 being the best) in four areas: professional achievements, leadership skills, community involvement and long-term goals.

McMillen is proud to have our Marketing Director, Marissa Emmons as a finalist.

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We are excited to add these experts to our staff allowing us to provide our clients more than 80 years of combined hydropower knowledge. McMillen will now provide a myriad of hydropower solutions, encompassing project planning, licensing and permitting, design, contract preparation and execution, construction management, start-ups, and plant operation & maintenance. We look forward to working with new and existing clients to develop strategies and solutions that not only meet the intent of the project but work within their budget and schedule constraints while keeping in mind the long term operational and maintenance impacts.

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Jack brings more than 38 years of expertise in the design and project management of hydroelectric power generation projects. He has been responsible for project planning, licensing and permitting, design, contract preparation and execution, construction management, start-ups and plant operation on multiple projects. Jack has completed USA-FERC and BC Water License applications and has managed FERC Licensing and Relicensing projects. Jack has been involved in reaching complex settlement agreements for hydropower projects involving the public, government agencies, NGO’s, Tribes, and private citizens. He has completed mechanical design and prepared equipment and construction specifications on multiple projects. Jack has served as on-site construction manager on several projects and led numerous commissioning teams, personally starting up seven hydroelectric projects for the first time.

Catrin brings to McMillen more than 20 years of management and engineering experience. Over the last four years she served as the Generation Manager and Engineering Supervisor for a Pacific Northwest Public Utility. Catrin provides our clients an intimate understanding of hydro operations, maintenance, and capital budgets while ensuring compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, such as FERC, and fisheries agencies. She is extremely familiar with FERC dam safety guidelines, Part12 of the Federal Regulations and has served on the Dam Safety executive committee for CEATI International. As an operations and maintenance engineer, Catrin worked closely with hydro-operations personnel to design and complete repairs to concrete and earthen structures, road and drainage improvements, material estimation and acquisition and construction management.