Custom repair the big shops won't touch. Runner crack and cavitation work, stay vane restoration, weld overlay, and in-place field machining from two and a half inches to over fifteen feet. Based in Lafayette, Georgia. On your dam for the outage window you scheduled — and then some.
In-place field machining of turbine runner discharge ring during rapid outage response.
What we service
Plant managers, asset managers, and outage planners know what they need when they call. Each card connects the asset, failure mode, field method, and documentation HRS can bring to the job.
Cavitation repair, crack repair, weld restoration, dimensional checks, and balance support for hydro turbine runners.
In-place stay vane repair, weld overlay, NDE support, and restoration work for embedded hydro components.
Portable mills, lathes, line boring, facing, fit restoration, and in-place machining from small bores to large hydro components.
Experience
Hydro repair is risk work. Each card covers a service line HRS has supported, the plants and owner groups involved, and the kind of outage work the crew has already handled. Tap a card to see the full reference list.
Coordinated cavitation repair and balance on four 180 MW Francis runners during a single 30-day outage. Documented to customer QA plan, returned to service ahead of schedule.
We've been in enough powerhouses to know that the people signing the purchase order don't care about slogans. They care that the documentation lines up, the crew shows up, and the unit comes back online. Here's how we deliver on all three.
Every job is scoped the same way: evaluate the situation, devise the most effective solution, and execute it for the shortest possible downtime. That's the whole philosophy. It's why utilities call us for the tricky parts of an outage their primary vendor won't quote.
Signature work:
Crack - Cavitation - Overlay - Line Boring
TVA at Raccoon Mountain, Boone, Chickamauga, Hiwassee, Kentucky, and Watts Bar. USACE at Bonneville, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, West Point, and Harry S. Truman. BC Hydro at G.M. Shrum and Revelstoke. DWR at Oroville. Bath County. Grand Coulee. Ludington. If it generates hydroelectric power, we've likely been inside it.
Major partners:
TVA - USACE - BC Hydro - DWR - PG&E - Alcoa - Duke
Our supervisors bring a combined thirty-five years of turbine repair experience. The craft labor pool averages seven years of welding and machining. These are the people who show up on your dam, not a rotating subcontractor, not someone pulled off a different job.
Leadership:
Justin Parker - Robert Bartlett - Amber Parker
Field Operations
Hydro powerhouse repair is high-risk, critical-path work. Confined spaces, heavy overhead lifting, stainless steel welding, and high-voltage areas leave no room for error. We do not field rotating subcontractors or uncertified crews. Every member deployed to your dam holds these active, verified certifications.
All HRS personnel are trained personally by experienced management. Our supervisors oversee hands-on safety checkouts and site-specific hazard reviews before a single crew member steps onto the powerhouse floor.
Universal foundation in high-risk construction safety, hazard recognition, PPE protocols, and electrical safety.
Mandatory certification for entering penstocks, scroll cases, draft tubes, and runner hubs. Includes atmospheric testing and rescue plans.
Advanced safety harness, anchor calculation, and scaffolding safety for vertical shaft and high-elevation rotor rigging.
Critical path lift-plan execution for handling turbine runners, headcovers, and shafts weighing up to hundreds of tons.
Hazard identification and respiratory safety protocols during stainless steel welding, runner overlay, and metal grinding.
Zero-energy state verification protocols to isolate hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic power prior to machinery entry.
Outage-ready emergency first response, automated external defibrillator (AED) utilization, and trauma stabilization training.
HRS stays small on purpose. The people listed here are tied to the field work, estimating, scheduling, documentation, and owner coordination that keep hydro repair jobs moving.
Justin Parker
Owner / Field Supervisor
22 years experience
Amber Parker
Operations & Finance
14 years experience
Logan
Project Manager
18 years experience
Robert Bartlett
Senior Welder
35 years experience
Specialty welders, machinists, certified divers, and turbine techs. Travel pay, real benefits, and a shop where the senior crew has names and tenure. If you've been on a dam face at 3 a.m. in February, we'd like to talk.
Send the asset, location, target outage window, and known failure details. HRS logs service requests into the admin system so the work does not disappear in an inbox.
