What Do Environmental Engineers and Environmental Scientists Do?
A five-year redevelopment effort turned the City of Glendale, Wisconsin’s former Bender Road Landfill site into a vibrant community park and collegiate-level baseball facility. By Scott Wilson, PSS On the highest level, environmental engineering has two goals. The first is to help correct the mistakes of the past that have led to the environmental issues… Read More »
Tags: Bioswales, Blighted Areas, Brownfield, Contaminants, Ecology, Environmental, Environmental Engineers, Environmental Scientist, Industrial Sites, Landfills
Post-wildfire Stabilization Requires Quick Action, Sustained Commitment
Ayres staff examines the burn patterns surrounding Comanche Reservoir in January this year to evaluate potential mitigation. By Colin Barry, PG, CFM In 2020, Colorado experienced its largest wildfire in state history. The Cameron Peak fire started August 13 west of Fort Collins in the Arapahoe and Roosevelt national forests, destroying nearly 209,000 acres before… Read More »
Tags: erodible soils, HEC-HMS, high-severity burn, hydrologic models, Water Quality, wattle, wildfire, wildfire mitigation
How Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Solved Aging Dam Dilemma
By Matthew Hickox, PE When complex issues at dams arise due to rapid change or unforeseen deterioration, industry standard design equations and methodologies developed in the 20th century cannot always provide the correct solution. Fortunately, engineers are increasingly able to turn to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to confirm the hydraulics situation so that appropriate… Read More »
Tags: 3D Hydraulic Modeling, CFD, CFD Model, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dam, Hydraulics, Hydrology, structure damage