Tag: Water Resources

Remote Catamaran Retrieves Data and Keeps Surveyors Safe

Conditions are sometimes too dangerous for water resources engineers to get up close and personal to collect hydrographic survey data at bridges. When scouting bridges in 2012, Ayres Associates’ staff decided one bridge – U.S. Highway 8 over the St. Croix River in Polk County, Wisconsin – was impassable by jet boat and not navigable… 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 »