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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I AYRES - - - --- specializes in environmental information with emphasis in meteorological analyses and geographic information systems applications. Projects during the past several years include site-specific probable maximum precipitation studies for Upper and Middle Dams for Maine Hydro, Spring Run Reservoir NO.2 in Colorado Springs, the Catawba and Wateree Rivers in central and western Carolinas for Duke Power, the Great Western Reservoir west of Denver Colorado, the Muddy Creek and Elkhead drainage basins in Colorado for the Colorado River Water Conservation District, EPRI managed regional PMP study for Michigan and Wisconsin and the Williams Fork drainage basin for the City of Denver, Colorado. A detailed analysis of the Georgia 1994 extreme rainfall event was completed in 1995 to provided hourly rainfall for each of the sub- basins within the Flint River drainage. Current projects include site-specific PMP for the Cherry Creek drainage basin south of Denver, and for the Garnet Mesa Reservoir in western Colorado. Ayres Associates and Applied Weather Associates have worked together previously on several projects including the extreme hydrology studies for Elkhead Dam and Garnet Mesa Dam in Colorado, and St. Croix Falls Dam in Wisconsin David Ford Consulting Engineers, Inc. will lead the Risk Assessment Task. David Ford excels in understanding hydrologic engineering and the appropriate analysis tools; developing decision support systems that meet client needs when off-the-shelf systems won't; and technology transfer, which is critical to the success of the South Boulder Creek Floodplain project. Specialties of the David Ford staff include rainfall-runoff analysis, stream hydraulics, water resource systems analysis and operations research, flood damage analysis, risk analysis, geographic information systems, database management systems, flood warning and emergency response planning, real-time data collection and transmission, and Web technologies. Royce Arbour, Inc., specializes in public relations and will lead the Public Involvement Task. They are a small Boulder company whose staff is adept at marketing and public relations; project presentations; communication; facilitation; and public address. Experience includes directing the public information effort for closing 16th Street for development of the Downtown Denver 16th Street Transit Mall; creating a database resulting from over 1700 contacts for multi-year municipal development project, providing regular updates, personalized interactions, and public information concerning project progress; and facilitating a strategic planning retreat for more than 60 key stakeholders of a large community service agency. Boulder Land Consultants, Inc., also a small Boulder company, will assist our in- house survey teams. They have provided land surveying and mapping services in the greater Boulder County region and around the State for 15 years. Their staff includes two registered professional land surveyors with more than 40 years of combined land surveying experience. Ayres Associates has also enlisted the assistance of Dr. Robert D. Jarrett for his paleohydrology work on the South Boulder Creek basin. We recognize that Dr. Jarrett's work is essential to our understanding of the basin hydrology and he has agreed to work with us if the City selects our team. 3