FHWA Videos Recommend Best Hydraulic Field Scoping Procedures
By Dusty Robinson, PE, Senior Project Manager When it comes to designing roadways and other transportation infrastructure, the structures themselves aren’t all that needs to be considered. Hydraulic design – or the impact water has on this infrastructure – is a critical consideration in transportation design. For example, the most common cause of bridge failures… Read More »
Tags: 2D Hydraulic Modeling, Bridge Failure, Bridge Hydraulics, Channel Assessment, Culvert Design, Drainage Maintenance, FHWA, Field Scoping, Floods, Flume, Hydraulic Concepts, Hydraulic Design, Open Channel Flow, Scouring, Transportation Design, Water
End Goal Helps Clients Obtain Success
From working on thousands of projects over the years, we’ve learned that communities find the most success when they start with the end in mind, especially on complicated projects involving multiple grants and funding sources. Most communities feel the pinch of tight budgets and need to rely on grants to get big projects completed. Having… Read More »
Tags: Contaminated Sediment, Engineering Excellence Best of State Award, EPA, Federal Grants, Funding, Funding Sources, Grant Proposal Development, Harbor Revitalization, Multi-phased Project
Assessing the Impacts of a High-Alpine Wildfire
By Colin Barry, PG, CFM This year, Colorado experienced its largest wildfire in state history. The Cameron Peak fire started August 13 west of Fort Collins in the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests, destroying nearly 209,000 heavily wooded acres before being contained on December 2. With the devastating blaze still smoldering, emergency crews rushed to… Read More »
Tags: erodible soils, HEC-HMS, high-severity burn, hydrologic models, Water Quality, wattle, wildfire, wildfire mitigation
