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Residential Site Groundwater Modeling

With groundwater as high as 2 feet below the surface on the site of a proposed residential development at Windsor, Colorado, the developer needs groundwater modeling and the design of an underdrain system and a pump station to handle dewatering the site. The development is proposed to contain about 250 single-family homes. Ayres was retained… 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 »

Timber Complex Groundwater Study

Ayres partnered with The John Buck Company to manage groundwater for the Timber Complex within the S’PARK Development in Boulder, providing services from site sampling through construction support. Ayres supervised groundwater monitoring well installation and performed groundwater quality testing and in-situ slug testing to determine groundwater hydraulic conductivity. The team used the results to develop… Read More »