Tag: Colorado

Colorado Floods: A Year Later

It’s been a little over a year now since employees in our Colorado offices experienced a catastrophic flood, giving our water resources engineers a chance to put their skills to a serious test. The September 2013 flood made national headlines and sent the state scrambling to deal first with the emergency and then with the… Read More »

What’s It Really Like Inside a Sewer?

Would you believe some engineers not only tolerate crawling inside sanitary sewer manholes – but actually enjoy it? Several members of our municipal engineering group in Ayres’ Fort Collins, Colorado, office climb into manholes to help their clients learn whether their sewer pipes are sized right, if they are leaking, and if they need to… Read More »

Flood Recovery Continues in Colorado

On Wednesday, September 11, of last year it started raining in Colorado. And then it just kept raining, and raining, and raining. By that Friday, many of us in Ayres’ Fort Collins office were scrambling to find a way to the office because all river crossings in Fort Collins were blocked, cutting the city in… Read More »