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"What is interesting," she says, "is that the project would involve some temporary wetlands disturbance" so that the penstocks can be retrieved from underground and restored. Penstocks are devices that spin when hit with flowing water, thus turning electric generators.
The study will also cover what permitting is needed and render a cost estimate.
Other field work she did this summer was groundwater monitoring on an established pig farm.
Blatchley says she gets out of the office to do field work about once a week.
She landed the internship by sending out scores of letters and Woodard & Curran was the only one that replied, she said.
By getting this internship, she said she feels she has rounded out her resume.
In previous internships she worked for the state Department of Environmental Management and the Audubon Society. For the latter she helped with a survey of landowners to gauge summer water usage in the Hunt River area.
"I did a government internship and a non-profit one," she said "and so I wanted to do one in the private sector."
Woodard & Curran is headquartered in Portland, ME, but has offices scattered across the Northeast. The Providence office has about 40 people "and they are all very nice," she said.
What’s more, her place of work is right off Federal Hill and that’s not a bad location for some quality places to eat lunch.
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