City of Sturgis, Mich., Selects McLean Engineering for Pole Attachment and GIS Asset Inventories

The City of Sturgis, Mich., recently selected McLean Engineering Company to provide an inventory of its joint use pole attachments and electric distribution assets.

As part of its joint use and pole attachment agreements, the City of Sturgis is due to conduct a pole attachment count and joint use inventory on its system. The municipality selected McLean Engineering to provide this count in an effort to collect updated information on a GIS basis, improve relationships with its attachers, and clean up late transfers.

McLean Engineering will also provide a GIS asset inventory for the City’s electric distribution system.  McLean takes a low-cost and flexible approach to GIS to allow for efficient control of Sturgis’s distribution assets and to make it easy to afford the cost of keeping maps up-to-date – the most essential function of any map.

McLean works with many municipalities, cooperatives and state trade organizations to navigate through joint-use concerns by providing expertise in all areas related to joint-use and pole attachment matters.
 

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About McLean Engineering
Established in 1936, McLean Engineering has over 80 years of experience in the power engineering field, serving electric utility systems throughout the United States. Over the years, McLean Engineering has built a reputation for providing safe, reliable and durable solutions by focusing on long-term relationships with their clients.

McLean Engineering provides design, engineering, and inspection solutions, and is nationally-recognized in the area of pole attachments, having presented to national audiences on the topic and consulted for electric utilities across the U.S. on pole attachment issues, including rental rates, permitting, inspection, attacher management, make-ready engineering as well as contract development, negotiation, and administration. To find out more, please visit our blog at mcleanengineering.com/blog.

About the City of Sturgis Electric Department
The Electric Department has served the Sturgis area since its inception in 1896. Today, the department serves over 7,200 customers within the City of Sturgis and other parts of St. Joseph County. The majority of the City’s electric service is purchased power, supplemented by the City’s hydroelectric dam and in emergency situations, City-operated diesel generators. To learn more, visit http://www.sturgismi.gov/utilities/electric/.