Chicago to Atlanta Telecommunications System
Location: Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois
Client: Williams Communications Inc.
Burns & McDonnell is providing environmental permitting services for William's Communications Inc.'s Chicago to Atlanta fiber optic telecommunications system. The 950-mile system is proposed to be installed in existing highway, railroad, pipeline and transmission line right-of-ways. Burns and McDonnell is also conducting wetland field surveys along the proposed corridor.
- U.S. Forest Service special use permit for the Chattahoochee National Forest
- National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits
- Tennessee Valley Authority - Land use permit
- Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation - Aquatic resource alteration permit
- Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection - Construction in a floodway permits
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources - Construction in a floodway permits
- Hamilton County, Ohio - Special flood hazard area permit
- Will County, Illinois - Site development permit