Portland General Electric, PDX Metro OR

PCD’s team has been providing on-call survey services to Portland General Electric (PGE) since 2016.

Our team responds to all land surveying team requests quickly and is called upon for projects with tight deadlines and complexities that require attention to detail.
PCD’s team worked on PGE projects including:
- Faraday Dam
- Orient Substation
- Evergreen Substation
Services provided include:
- Drone and aerial services for hydroelectric projects where topographic information obtained by conventional surveying techniques is impractical
- Production of high-resolution imagery for PGE’s engineering team, allowing them to view multiple angles of a project throughout the design process
- Preparing legal descriptions and exhibits for recording utility easements
- Performing field survey of site conditions including overhead and underground utilities, power poles and guy anchors for easements
- Establishing horizontal and vertical control for site construction and topographic surveys
- Integrating unmanned aerial vehicle data for monitoring, and boundary resolutions
- Conducting topographic, boundary and ALTA surveys for the design of Evergreen Substation in Hillsboro, Oregon
- Preparing and record Partition Plat for Orient Substation in Troutdale, Oregon
- Preparing as-built surveys for new utilities requiring easement updates, control setup for GPS calibrations and construction staking, aerial surveys for existing conditions and post construction verifications
- Conducting drone flights used for aerial imagery topographic data collection at Faraday Dam in Estacada, Oregon, for new powerhouse design and construction
- Integrating GPS, robotic total station, and unmanned aerial vehicle used for data collection of utilities and street improvements