Services
Agricultural Engineering/Compliance
VESTRA offers a full range of professional engineering, permitting, and regulatory compliance services to the agricultural community. These include facility design, permitting, environmental assessments, monitoring, and biological services. We frequently act as client advocates when working with local, state, and federal agencies.
Our multi-disciplinary team includes engineers, hydrologists, hydro geologists, biologists, and scientists friendly to agriculture, with decades of field experience, and excellent relationships with regulatory agencies. We have helped numerous agricultural clients achieve permitting from agencies such as the US Army Corps of Engineers and local regional water quality control boards.
We are working with a number of dairies to obtain compliance with the new general order requirements.
Our Agricultural Services Include:
- Dairy Service Compliance
- Title 27 Impound Design
- Fish Screen / Passage Design and Permitting
- Irrigation / Water Control Systems
- Irrigation / Stock Pond Construction
- Irrigation Piping
- System Permitting
- Animal Waste Management
- Soil / Water Conservation
- Nonpoint Source Discharge Runoff
- Compliance Individual Waiver Programs
- Expansion Design (CAFO)
- Flood Plain Resolution
- Violation / Remediation and Negotiation
- Wastewater Management
Contact us at info@vestra.com or call us at (530) 223-2585 for more information.
Example Projects
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Sep2010
Engineering Design, Surveying, Wetland Delineation, Permitting, Bid Assistance, Construction Management/Inspection
Williams Ranch Tailwater Pond Demonstration Project
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Western Shasta Resource Conservation District 2005-2009
Shasta County, California VESTRA completed the entire survey, design, and permitting package for this irrigation runoff r… -
Apr2011
Permitting, Surveying, Engineering Design, and Construction Observation
Cottonwood Creek Siphon Replacement and Fish Passage Imrovement Project Shasta and Tehama Counties, California The Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) is replacing an exposed siphon within a channel of Cottonwood Creek bordering Sh…
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Sep2010
Surveying, Engineering, and Construction Oversight
Huseman Ditch Project - Shasta River
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Siskiyou County, California The Huseman Ditch is an existing irrigation ditch utilizing a diversion dam on the Shasta River approximately 3.5 miles upstream of the project site. The Department … -
May2011
Expansion Permitting/Waste Water Pond Design
Greenwood Dairy VESTRA provided permit facilitation, regulatory compliance, engineering and sampling services to the Greenwood Dairy near Orland. The operator expanded his herd from 1,800 to 3,500 milking head. Glenn County CAFO regulations, R…
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May2011
Wastewater Management/Compliance Support
Shasta Livestock Auction Yard The Shasta Livestock Auction Yard retained VESTRA to design and facilitate a number of improvements to the wastewater disposal system at the confined animal facility in response to RWQCB request. In addition, the …
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