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<br />Woodward.Clyde Consultants <br /> <br />State of Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board <br />June 16, 1977 <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />The Rocky Mountain Regional Office of Woodward-Clyde Consultants <br />in Denver has participated in the geotechnical investigations, <br />designs and safety inspec~ions of over 500 earth and rockfill <br />darns as well as over 90 t~ilinq dams. We are familiar with <br />all of the requirements fqr the design of safe earth dams. <br />Some of the earth and rockfill dams on which we have worked <br />are listed in Attachment t.. ~e principal participants <br />proposed for the review Pan~~ have all had mAny years of <br />experience in field explorations, laboratory investigations <br />for foundation and materi~~s engineering, geologic evaluations <br />and dam design analyses. ,The profess~onal and experience <br />records of the proposed tE!~_ll!8mbe~s are included in Attach- <br />ment II. Each of these pe~sons,have particular expertise. <br />gathered from their many yea~s of experience which will be <br />particularly valuable to ~he .~ucces8ful evaluation of proposed <br />Narrows Dam design. <br /> <br />Woodward-Clyde Consultants. organ~sed in 1950, is a multi- <br />disciplinary firm of consulting engineers, geOlogists, <br />hydrologists, and environmental scientists consisting of <br />five operating regions in the United States, an environmental <br />systems diviSion, and a wholly~owned subsidiary called <br />Woodward-Clyde Consultants--International. The total staff <br />consists of approximately 700 prOfessional and support <br />personnel. About three-q~arters of the staff are graduate <br />engineers or scientists with about 300 holding advanced <br />degrees. <br /> <br />The Denver Office now has a staff of over BO persons, 40 of <br />whom are professional engineers and scientists. This office <br />specializes in geotechnica~ engineering related to earth and <br />rookfill dams, and tailing dams and engineering and mining <br />sciences. All types of st~q~es are included in wee services <br />including exploration, pl~nning,design, ann construction <br />observation, as well as research ,and development. The Denver <br />facility includes complete ~aboratory, office and library <br />facilitias oocupying lS,OQO square feet. The laboratory is <br />equipped to make virtually.all type~ of soil tests required <br />for a thorough engineering.analysis of soils for dams, founda- <br />tions, pavements, emban~nt~, ,a~qresearch projects. The <br />library contains over 6,OOQ enqineerinq and technical books <br />and other pUblications an4 includes files on about 19,OOO jobs <br />performed by the Denver o:t;fiqe. A cQmputer terminal is main- <br />tained in the Denver offic~buil4inq for time-Sharing operations. <br />Commercial computer services.are utiliaed, inVOlving high-speed <br />and lar'1e melllOry capabUi t;y . <br />