Cleghorn Fish Hatchery

This project consisted of demolishing existing buildings and constructing new facilities, including new open-ground tanks. The existing concrete raceways were removed to make room for a new 25,235-square-foot fish rearing building and a 6,990-square-foot office and shop building. The existing hatchery building was also renovated and upgraded to provide state hatchery staff with improved equipment and facilities for raising of fish. Improvements included an updated incubation room, egg sterilization lab, and rearing tank room.

Thirty-two 6-foot-diameter fiberglass tanks were installed in the rearing tank room, along with an automated fish feeder system. The new office and shop building is a steel structure that provides staff with office space, storage, workshop areas, and facility computer controls. The new fish rearing building, also constructed of steel, replaced the concrete raceways and features thirty-two 20-foot-diameter stainless steel tanks, concrete floors with a drainage system, and an enclosed structure with predator screens on all sides to allow airflow while protecting fish from predators.

A generator building was also constructed, improvements were completed at the existing visitor center, and a new loading dock was added to the existing feed storage building. This project was recognized with the AGC Build With The Best Award.