McClure provided funding acquisition, design services, environmental assessment and permitting for the Summer Street Reconstruction Project. This project included the reconstruction of Summer Street from Harrison Avenue to Koestner Street, utilities improvements throughout the corridor to replace aging infrastructure, and the construction of a continuous, multi-use paved trail. The trail connects Dankwardt Park and the surrounding residential area to an existing trail on Mason Road in Burlington, Iowa. McClure completed all studies required by the Iowa DOT and federal funding agencies to gain full NEPA clearance for the project (except Historic and Cultural Resources which was completed by a subcontractor).

Summer Street is an arterial road in Burlington that also is a focal point of stormwater drainage, with a large trunk sewer and a complex ditch network running along the road. Due to the complex hydraulics of the trunk sewer and ditch network in the vicinity of the project, the City and McClure decided to complete a stormwater study of the area draining into the project area. This study examined available GIS and survey data for pipes, intakes, structures, and topography in the nearly 300-acre watershed. All of this information was populated in a master GIS dataset and then imported to Infoworks ICM software for simulation. For this process, a rain-on-grid 1D/2D modeling approach was used, which allows rainfall from the model to hit a terrain surface and runoff into the stormwater infrastructure populated in the model like it would naturally based on land use and infiltration parameters. The model was used to perform inundation mapping for multiple rainfall events and calibrated based on data available from the City. The preliminary plan phase of this project was recently completed. The stormwater study was used to design stormwater infrastructure on Summer Street. The storm sewer will be designed per SUDAS guidance and will eventually drain into a retrofitted detention basin to be designed by McClure. This detention basin will likely include energy dissipation and erosion control features. Additionally, the City realizes significant cost savings by commissioning this study simultaneously with the roadway reconstruction process and is able to use this as an extremely valuable tool for future planning needs outside of the Summer Street project.