Anthony W. DeFranco, PE - Consulting Engineer

08/19/2025

The views from the site investigation work never gets old. It’s finally a beautiful calm night out there on the lake.

08/19/2025

That lake house is coming to completion.

04/10/2025

Not a bad spot to watch water go into the ground. Very peaceful. Not a ripple out there.

Not a boat on the water. I’ve seen more loons than boats..

11/08/2024

Another lake house is about to re-appear. It’s that time of year. We look forward to seeing Joe Vilardo’s design. Another lake house by TSW Construction.

10/15/2024

Getting ready for the stormwater show today. Always exciting to hear about water, soil and stormwater!

2024 - 19-th Annual North Country Tradeshow & Conferencehas kicked off.

The “12836” is in the house! Hague Highway Department is representing. Good to see!

We are honored to be giving a presentation today on rain gardens and permeable pavers.

10/15/2024

10/15/2024

05/28/2024

Celebrating with the Reynen’s. It’s been a 4-year journey to get their lake house of their dreams, but we are almost there now!

We met on this vacant lake lot and wondered if it was possible. Well it was..

We can’t wait to see the finished project. The house looks amazing.

05/13/2024

Do you know that Engineering and Site Design can be done in such a manner to help enhance your property on Lake George?

This site looks like so many other lake properties, however, do you know that this project was able to capture most of the stormwater on the property and prevent it from entering Lake George?

How did an Engineer do that? We capture the runoff from the roof and direct the water into these very attractively landscaped rain gardens and vegetated swales along the driveway.

The driveway is constructed of permeable pavers that allow the rainwater to infiltrate into a thick bed of crushed stone underneath the concrete pavers. The water than slowly infiltrates into the ground.

The homeowners took it upon themselves to expand the permeable paver driveway to treat even more stormwater! This is an example of going out and doing the right thing for our Lake!

There are also overflow mechanisms in place to allow for larger rain events.

This site was re-developed with house renovations and the construction of a new garage to provide for more storage.

House builder: Roundtree Construction
Landscaper: DeFranco Landscaping and Construction
Site Excavator: J.R. Pratt Excavating
Engineer: Anthony W. DeFranco, PE-Consulting

03/03/2024

Septic tanks going in today