People
About 300 professionals deliver an impressive range of engineering, mapping, environmental, architectural, and survey services at Ayres Associates. Our filterable database makes it easy to check out the credentials of key staff in the disciplines of interest to you – and to contact them directly to get more information about working with you on a project.
"Chris, on behalf of the Little Tamarack Baker Spring Lake District ... I cannot thank you enough for the work you, your staff, and your firm did on our behalf. The dam design that you and Wisconsin DNR thought of saved us a significant chunk of change."Karl Jennrich
Little Tamarack Spring Baker Lake District, WI
Chris joined Ayres Associates in 1990 and manages the water resources group. He is responsible for planning, managing, designing, and inspecting water resources projects. His experience includes dam design, dam inspections, spillway hydraulics, dam hydrology, embankment design, dam permitting, and preparing emergency action plans and operations plans for dams. He also has experience in storm sewer system design and modeling, environmental permitting, wetland investigations and permitting, lake management planning, and groundwater remediation system design. Before joining Ayres Associates, Chris was employed by the Pepin, Vernon, and St. Croix County Land Conservation Departments.
Chris' areas of expertise include the following:
- Stormwater management plans
- Site development planning
- Lake management planning
- Lake dredging permitting
- Groundwater and soil monitoring sampling
- Hydrogeologic studies
- Wetland inventory, classification, and hydrologic analysis
- Soil classification
Certifications
- Hydrogeologist per Wisconsin Administrative Code NR 712.02(1)
Education
- MS, Environmental and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- BS, Biology, minor in Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Registrations
- Registered Professional Engineer, MD
- Registered Professional Engineer, WI
- St. Raymond of Penafort Catholic Church
- Eau Claire Phoenix Park
- Preferred Sands General Engineering
- Kewaunee River Wall & Park
- Adams County Easton Dam
- Eau Pleine Dam Stabilization
- Grimh Dam Removal
- Delton Dam Analysis/Repair
- Minong Flowage Dam Reconstruction
- Monterey Dam Replacement
- Grafton Bridge Street Dam
- Byllesby Dam Spillway Modifications
- Spooner Dam Spillway Replacement
- Edlen Cranberry Company Dam
- Little Falls Dam Inspection
- Altoona Dam Gate Pier Reconstruction
- Lake Hallie Boat Landing
- Moose Lake Dam Spillway Replacement
- Cumberland Dam Design
- Lake Bronson Dam
- Birch Lake Dam Repairs
- University of Iowa Flood Protection
- I-39/US 51 Interchange Signals
- CVTC West Campus Services
