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East Side Detention Facility

The East Side Detention Facility (ESDF) dam is a high-hazard dam in northern Colorado. As the on-call engineering consultant for the Boxelder Stormwater Authority, Ayres was retained to analyze the Gray Lakes Reservoir area as a possible location for the ESDF as part of the Boxelder Basin Regional Stormwater Master Plan. This major regional flood… Read More »

Lanesboro Dam Design & Construction

Lanesboro Dam is listed on the National Historic Register and is one of the last remaining unmortared limestone arch dams in existence. The 25-foot-tall, 220-foot-long limestone block arch dam needed significant repairs to stop joint leakage, improve structural stability, and restore the Oneota limestone facade. This complex project was funded through a USDA Rural Development… Read More »

Duck Creek Fish Passage

The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin retained Ayres to design improvements to the Duck Creek fisheries by removing obstructions to desirable fish passages and providing barriers to undesirable fish movement. Critical to meeting these goals was modifying Dam 1 at Oneida Golf & Country Club in Green Bay and removing Dams 2 and 3… Read More »