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 »
Sustainable Pavement Design – Pavement’s Future
By Noah Nemmers, PE As pavement technology continues to change and advance, a major emphasis is being put on environmental stewardship. Highway administration’s efforts are increasingly aimed at the industry’s overall use of recycled materials, environmental and ecological constrains, as well as the Long-Term Pavement Performance. Better determining the current condition of the country’s pavements… 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 »
Weld County Oil and Gas Boom on Horizon
By Rick Behning, PE Billions of dollars have been earmarked to be spent in the Niobrara Shale in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. According to an article published January 4 in The Coloradoan: “The Niobrara shale spreads across northeast Colorado, but it’s only about 400 feet thick and thousands of feet underground. Because the shale is so thin,… Read more »
Moss Street Bridge Girders Placed today at NREL
No matter who you are, this is impressive. 105′ bridge girders installed today with a huge crane with 400′ telescoping boom!
Congrats to Aaron Demo – Now Professional Land Surveyor
Looks pretty good with PLS after his name. Get ready for your registration bonus check. You have earned it.
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.
NREL Roundabout Breaks Ground
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Latest Site Pic from Benkelman
USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Golden
So cool to see the peloton go past our office. Baseline is proud to be a sponsor https://procyclinggolden.com/sponsors/ .
Congratulations Matt Eisenach, PLS
Matt’s name looks pretty good with PLS after it, don’t you think. Congrats to Matt for passing the PLS exam. That is one tough test. Time to collect your Baseline registration bonus.
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.
A Successful Ribbon Cutting
Thank you to the Golden Chamber of Commerce for our ribbon cutting event and to the local merchants and clients who attended. Even though we are not new to Golden, it is great to finally be headquartered in Downtown Golden.
Golden Businesses Help Celebrate Baseline’s New HQ
Thank you to the Golden Chamber of Commerce for our ribbon cutting event and to the local merchants and clients who attended. Even though we are not new to Golden, it is great to finally be headquartered in Downtown Golden.
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 »
Announcing Noah J. Nemmers, PE, PLS
Baseline is proud to announce Noah J. Nemmers, PE, PLS has joined the firm as Manager of our Civil Engineering Group. Mr. Nemmers joins Baseline to expand and strengthen our services in the area of land development engineering and municipal infrastructure upgrades. As a Project Manager in the Denver area for the last 6 years,… Read more »
