4/21/2023 It couldn’t come soon enough for the weather-hardened crew at Middle Dam to finish up for the winter season and turn their taillights to the project. This winter’s scope of work was in the Sluice Gates area, consisting of all new upstream concrete aprons, a new concrete pier wall, replacing a wooden gate, installing
7/19/2024 Last week was all mobilizing and site prep for Kent Lewin and his Monty crew of 3. The group started by cleaning up the laydown yard and getting the site into workable condition while fencing gurus Dustin Bradbury and Will Boyce set up the perimeter to keep the prior “residents” out. With everything on
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6/14/2023 We’ve had a mechanical crew down to Cataract turbine disassembly/reassembly project the past few months, but now they are joined by a civil crew to begin work on the extension of an existing fishway approximately 50 ft into tailrace. To complete this project, we’ll be constructing a cofferdam, drilling and installing rock anchors, placing
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Bancroft Contracting Corporation in conjunction with Kleinschmidt USA, designed and constructed a rubber bladder flashboard system for NextEra Energy on the Shawmut Dam at Shawmut Village on the Kennebec River. The finished design called for three separate 240-foot long rubber bladders, spanning the entire length of the dam crest. The project required removal of an
Bancroft Contracting re-built 400 linear feet of the Number 4 Penstock at the Mill Hydro hydroelectric facility in Millinocket, Maine for Brookfield Power of Gatineau, Quebec. The Number 4 Penstock is one of six similar penstocks on the site, each feeding a generator/turbine pairing. The Mill Hydro Penstock project required Bancroft Contracting to expose an
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In just over 12 months, beginning October 2012, Bancroft Contracting Corporation constructed twin hydroelectric generating facilities on the Stillwater River in Penobscot County, Maine. The facilities were part of a groundbreaking regional negotiation balancing environmental concerns with the need for renewable energy generation. Bancroft crews worked through a brutal Maine winter to meet a critical schedule
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Starting July 5, 2016 Bancroft began construction of an 11-million-dollar upstream fish passage facility for Brookfield Renewable Power. The new fish passage is located on the east bank of the Kennebec river just downstream of the Hydro-Kennebec Dam which spans the river between the towns of Winslow and Waterville, Maine. Bancroft Contracting served as general
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