9587

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9587
• Author: Ayres Associates.
• Title: Environmental Permitting Services - Elkhead Reservoir and Yampa River Basin, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Ft. Collins, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

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AYRES ASSOCIATES

PETER F. LAGASSE, P.E.
Senior Vice President

Education

Ph.D., River Engineering, Colorado State University
M,S., Coastal Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Civil Engineering, U.S. Military Academy

Professional Registration

Registered Professional Engineer, Colorado, New Mexico, and Florida

Professional Societies

American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Division
National Society of Professional Engineers
Professional Engineers of Colorado

Experience

Dr. Lagasse has managed large, controversial projects for numerous Federal agencies including:
the Albuquerque, Mobile, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Districts of the Corps of Engineers; the
Federal Emergency Management Agency; the National Park Service; and the Bureau of
Reclamation Lower Missouri and Lower Colorado Regions. He was responsible for a series of
quick response task order contracts in the areas of hydrology, hydraulics, erosion, and
sedimentation for the Corps of Engineers Mobile District. Dr. Lagasse served as project manager
for preparation of the Bureau's Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement for water
marketing from Ruedi Reservoir, as well as project manager for the Colorado River Water
Conservation District/Bureau preparation of a Supplement to the Colorado-Big Thompson
EIS for water marketing from Green Mountain Reservoir. He is currently managing the
preparation of a third party EIS for the U.S. Forest Service, Routt National Forest, for the
proposed construction and operation of a dam and reservoir on Rock Creek or Muddy
Creek in Colorado.

Responsibility of the previously mentioned projects involved coordinating the activities of
multidisciplinary engineering and environmental team in preparation of a series of environmental
documents dealing with water development in western Colorado; The projects resulted in an
environmental assessment, biological assessments, revised hydrologic and operational models,
draft and final EIS documents, 404 permits, and Section 7 consultation with USFWS. Dr. Lagasse
supported the Bureau, the River District, and the Forest Service at numerous scoping sessions
and public hearings during these projects.