Water

WATER UTILITIES: Panorama provides services to support the planning and permitting processes for various types of water utilities. Our team has provided CEQA, NEPA, design, permitting support, and construction compliance monitoring for a range of water transmission projects, including for small to large diameter raw, treated, and recycled water pipelines;  outfall structures; and water storage facilities. Our team has also provided environmental support for new and upgrades to existing pumping plants, raw water treatment plants, and wastewater treatment plants. Our services have also included devising system-wide maintenance programs and providing programmatic CEQA, NEPA, and permitting assistance for water pipelines and dam infrastructure. We often team with engineering leads to provide complementary planning services in order to define projects and alternatives with fewer environmental impacts and permitting needs from the start.

Panorama is a leading provider of environmental planning services for a wide range of transmission projects. Panorama is one of just a few firms with an on-call contract to the California Public Utilities Commision to provide the CEQA review for all the Investor Owned Utilities proposed projects in the State. Under our contract to the Public Utilities Commission, which we have held for over 20 years, we have completed reviews for power and transmission line upgrades, new transmission lines, new and upgraded substations, underground gas storage projects, and telecommunications projects. We have provided services throughout all areas of California.
Panorama has extensive experience in the solar industry, having provided due diligence review and Critical Issues Assessments, technical studies, CEQA and NEPA process management and documentation, endangered species and water resource permitting, and environmental compliance monitoring during construction for over 25 projects in California, Nevada, and Arizona, with particular experience on large-scale solar projects in the desert on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

20 MW Patua Solar

Panorama prepared a Major Special Use Permit (MSUP) application for submittal to Churchill County, NV, for a 20-MW solar plant that would provide station load

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5MW Duffel Solar Project

Panorama assisted East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) with the siting of a 5-MW solar facility within their watershed lands. Panorama conducted an evaluation of

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