National Engineers Week is a celebration of the contributions of engineers to our society. This annual event serves as a platform to recognize and appreciate the innovative work of engineers across various fields, highlighting their role in advancing technology, solving complex problems, and driving progress. It plays a pivotal role in inspiring the next… Read more »
Colorado Wastewater Engineering Companies
With mounting environmental concerns, sustainability is a growing trend in nearly every industry. For Colorado wastewater engineering companies, it’s no different. Treatment of wastewater is an increasing concern for its impact on the environment, especially when it comes to water supply. Baseline Engineering Corporation is one of the top Colorado wastewater engineering companies with sustainability… Read more »
Green Buildings Lead with LEED Features
By Chris Rundall, PE, LEED AP & Jeremy Beard, PE, LEED AP O+M Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) has been applied to more than 7,000 projects in the United States and 30 countries1). From its simple beginnings in 1994, LEED has evolved into the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) comprehensive rating system. Even… Read more »
Key to Dewatering – Save Money by being Proactive
By Baseline Water/Wastewater Engineering Water/wastewater treatment is an ongoing, high priority in Colorado and there’s no shortage of news about it—especially with discharge regulations getting tighter. Remember the controversy about the strict standards for arsenic levels CDOT encountered on its highway improvement project at I-25 and West Alameda? A similar issue happened to RTD on… Read more »
Lessons Learned about Low-impact Development
By Noah Nemmers, PE Low-impact development (LID) is a term used to describe a land planning and engineering design approach to managing storm water runoff. LID emphasizes conservation and use of on-site natural features to protect water quality. This approach implements engineered small-scale hydrologic controls to replicate the pre-development hydrologic regime of watersheds through infiltrating, filtering, storing, evaporating, and detaining runoff close to its source. Baseline has been involved in numerous… Read more »
Fracking and Water Usage
By Rick Behning, PE One of the concerns related to the fracking process is water usage. Kenneth Carlson, co-director of the Colorado Energy-Water Consortium, was interviewed for a recent Greeley Tribune article. The article explains that 0.1 percent of water diverted for beneficial use will be used for fracking over the 5 year span from… Read more »
Colorado’s Stringent Floodplain Rules
By Rick Behning, PE In an effort to increase public safety and reduce flood losses across the state, the Colorado Water Conservation Board issued new floodplain rules and regulations that became effective on January 14, 2011. These rules build off the FEMA rules. The hope is to provide uniform standards for regulatory floodplains in Colorado… Read more »
What to Do with Fracking’s Flowback Water?
By Baseline Water/Wastewater Engineering Approximately one million gallons of “flowback” water return to the surface, and is typically hauled to a disposal site where it is injected thousands of feet into the ground, a process environmentalists and some residents of oil fields worry may contaminate ground water. Many agree that this practice is not sustainable… Read more »
How to Invest for Potential Fracking Regulation
The following article was published on www.bakkenoil.org on January 23, 2012. Michael Filloon of Seeking Alpha has a five-part article series on investing for potential of EPA regulation of fracking as a result of public concerns about water usage and contamination. Below is a synopsis of his excellent analysis, but for an in-depth assessment of how… Read more »
U.S. Water Infrastructure Receives Nearly Failing Grade
By John McLain, PE The Water Innovations Alliance (WIA) recently completed an assessment of the state of the U.S. water infrastructure, which was given an overall grade of D- by the American Society of Civil Engineers in its most recent infrastructure report card. Underlying that nearly failing grade, WIA produced some startling statistics in a recent newsletter… Read more »
Colorado’s Current Snowpack and Reservoir Storage
By Chris Rundall, PE In the state of Colorado, where our offices are headquartered, there is constant concern over snowpack levels and reservoir fill. Because snowfall in the Rockies provides the main source of water for the state’s reservoirs, we keep a close eye on annual percentages and averages. Currently, the statewide snow pack is… Read more »
Uranium Skid Gets Benkelman Pumping Treated Water
Baseline is helping the City of Benkelman, Nebraska, solve its source water-quality problems. We’ve installed the uranium skid below. Now it’s time to hook everything up and start pumping treated water!
Arsenic Skid Arrives in Benkelman
Uranium treatment vessels soon.
Update from Benkelman
Here’s the latest site picture from our Benkelman project —
Benkelman Water Plant Breaks Ground
We had a successful groundbreaking event on May 24. Dirt is flying. The project could not have been possible without great collaboration and teamwork between current and former mayors and all City Council persons.
EP Magazine Covers Benkelman Water Treatment Plant
Baseline Engineering has completed the master planning, design, engineering, funding, and construction documents for a 600-gallons-per-minute water treatment plant. Baseline Engineering is ready to break ground on a project the firm has been working on since 2007 to remove arsenic and uranium from Benkelman, Nebraska’s drinking water. The town has a population of about 1,000… Read more »
Red Cliff WWTP Update
Water is flowing through the facility at this time…sludge and bugs delivered. Anxiously awaiting that fixed film growth.
Red Cliff’s Wastewater Facility Now “Shovel Ready”
Red Cliff’s Wastewater Facility Now “Shovel Ready” Golden, CO (PRWEB) | October 5, 2009 Baseline Engineering designed the $3.2 Million Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Facility for the Town of Red Cliff. Ground breaking for the new plant occurred on September 29, 2009. Finally! That was the collective feeling of the project team… Read more »
Global Atlanta Interviews Brewer on Las Catalinas Project
Global Atlanta Interviews Brewer on Las Catalinas Project By David Beasley | Global Atlanta | September 15, 2099 In 2005, Charles Brewer again found himself at a crossroads. He had already founded Mindspring Enterprises Inc., an Internet service provider, which merged with Earthlink Network Inc. in 2000 to become the second largest Internet company in… Read more »
Master Planning Water/Wastewater Across Borders
Golden, CO (PRWEB) | March 5, 2008 Master Planning Water/Wastewater Across Borders Baseline Costa Rica S.A. together with Baseline Corp U.S. recently completed a challenging Water and Wastewater Master Plan for an 1100 acre land development project along the Gold Coast of Costa Rica. The Master Plan is for the Las Catalinas development just north… Read more »