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CDOT Flood Damage Support

Ayres assisted the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) with post-flooding recovery in 2013 and 2014 at its Incident Command Center as the agency’s hydraulics and geomorphology on-call consultant. Ayres provided hydraulics and geomorphology support under the initial emergency response effort, performed initial hydrologic and geomorphic flood assessment, and assisted with Detailed Damage Inspection Reports (DDIR)… Read More »

US 183 over Boggy Creek Hydraulics

Ayres provided a forensic investigation of the cause of scour and bank instability at the US 183 bridge over Boggy Creek in Austin, Texas. Our team evaluated the design of the cutoff wall and bank stabilization and developed stream stability design plans for mitigation. The project involved site hydrologic analysis, 1D HEC-RAS hydraulic modeling, scour… Read More »