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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 »

Cumberland Dam Design

Ayres completed a dam failure analysis for the Cumberland Dam, owned and operated by Barron County, and determined the dam’s spillway needed to be capable of passing the 100-year flood. The existing dam consisted of a corrugated metal pipe with an old gate system on the upstream side. Ayres designed a new dam that has… Read More »