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Orchard Mesa Detention Pond

In 2009 Ayres delineated a floodplain for Orchard Mesa. Ayres developed a master plan, conceptually designing several alternatives to mitigate flooding in the area. Mesa County acquired grant funding for one of the proposed projects, a detention pond located on the Mesa County Fairgrounds, and retained Ayres and DHM to design the pond to meet… Read More »

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 »

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 »