American Electric Power Service Corporation

LOCATION:  Oologah, Oklahoma

AEP ranks among the nation’s largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation’s largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includes more 765 kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP’s transmission system directly or indirectly serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers much of Texas. AEP’s utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia, West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.

Crafton Tull has provided a variety of surveying services to AEP at not only the Northeastern Plant in Oologah, but other sites including the Comanche Power Station Dam, the Southwestern Plant Reservoir Dam Spillway in Southwestern Oklahoma, and the Flint Creek Power Plant in Gentry, Arkansas.

These services entail topographic surveys of ash landfills in which the area and volume of the landfill can be determined; surveys of existing power plant sites for the purposes of expansion, utility location and drainage; surveys for the exact horizontal and vertical coordinates of existing monitoring wells; staking and surveying of aerial targets as control points around the power plant sites; profile and cross-section surveys of existing dam sites; and produce 2010 AutoCad Drawings of the projects that can be sent electronically to the client.