Colorado Clients Benefit from Award-Winning Projects

Ayres engineers in Colorado — and their clients — are happy to see some recent projects recently get statewide recognition.

In the first award-winning project, Ayres helped the City of Loveland, Colorado, save its water supply immediately following the September 2013 catastrophic flood. The flood damaged two of three water lines feeding the City and was threatening the one that remained. Over mere days, Ayres worked with the City to push the river back to its original location in an effort that normally would have taken years to complete (a photo of the work is shown above). Ayres and Loveland just received the Grand Award from the Colorado Association of State Floodplain Managers for this effort. Also, this project received the top project award in the Disaster Emergency Construction category for mid-sized cities at the Colorado American Public Works Association conference on October 14.

Ayres and the City of Woodland Park, Colorado, also grabbed the top project award in the Environmental category for small communities for the Fountain Creek Channel Improvements project (a photo of this work is shown below). With this project, engineers stabilized an extensively eroded gully using innovative and cost saving methods.