As of May 2024, DA Smith is core drilling at Dominion Energy's Roanoke Rapids Dam near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Holes are being drilled on the dam crest and inside the dam's inspection gallery for installing engineering instrumentation associated with structural monitoring.
Roanoke Rapids is a FERC-regulated hydroelectric dam operating four 24 megawatt power-generating units. Roanoke Rapids is a concrete gravity dam measuring 72 feet high, 3,050 feet long, and includes 24 24.5-foot-wide by 38-foot-high radial crest gates. Dominion Power is the fifth largest electrical producer in the U.S.
DA Smith has completed drilling, instrument installation, and overcoring in situ stress measurements at the dam in multiple campaigns since 2007.