Author: ayres

Nienow Joins WLIA Board of Directors

Zach Nienow, GISP, project manager in our aerial mapping group, has joined the Wisconsin Land Information Association’s Board of Directors. With nearly 12 years of experience in geospatial sciences, Nienow designs and leads lidar, orthoimagery, and digital mapping projects from flight to delivery. He serves a diverse range of clients in the private and public… Read More »

Ayres Responds Fast to the Northern Wisconsin Washouts

Ayres Associates is sending staff this week to the sites of two washouts along STH 13 in Ashland County, Wisconsin. Box culverts that carried Silver Creek under STH 13 at Highbridge and Trout Brook under STH 13 at North York were washed out after torrential rains in the region late Monday. Ayres Associates has been… Read More »

Sewage Plant’s Struvite Problem Turned Into Useful Fertilizer

The process of harvesting struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) to remove excess phosphorus from the anaerobic digestion process at wastewater treatment plants is simultaneously reducing operations/maintenance costs and creating small, round struvite particles suitable for reuse as a bagged fertilizer for gardens and indoor plants. An award-winning technical paper whose abstract is available here has called… Read More »