Crystal Lake Hatchery Modifications
The Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (SSRAA) operates the Crystal Lake Hatchery and required emergency assistance for reconstruction of an incubation building after it was destroyed by fire.
SSRAA hired Kleinschmidt to assist in the design of an emergency replacement of the Crystal Lake Hatchery incubation building. The incubation building burned to the ground during the winter of 2014. Our team was able to provide a final design of a new water delivery system, and incubation building water supply distribution system in time for construction to begin in the summer of 2014. The SSRAA required the new system to be a gravity-supplied system, replacing the older pump-based supply. The new HDPE piping supply included a centralized head tank and a booster pump-driven oxygenation system for the raceway supply.
Kleinschmidt provided an efficient layout of the aquaculture water supply system, service water supply system, and drainage system to efficiently utilize the available space in the incubation building. The new incubation building houses 8 single stack Heath trays in groups of 18, 12 starter troughs, and 6 – 8 foot diameter circular tanks. Kleinschmidt also provided the structural design for the distribution tank, elevated tank on the standpipe systems, and the pipe supports.
Our ability to react rapidly to the emergency conditions created by the fire at the Crystal Lake hatchery allowed the new incubation building to be fully operational in less than 18 months. The new incubation building, and water supply system went online in fall 2014 and were fully operational by summer 2015.