FLOOD09801

• County: Arapahoe
• Community: Greenwood Village
• Stream Name: Goldsmith Gulch
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Contract Documents and Specifications for Goldsmith Gulch and Tributary Channel Improvements
• Date: 6/1/1987
• Prepared For: Goldsmith Metro District
• Prepared By: Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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Ground
Engineering
Consultants, Inc.

April 23, 1986

Subject: Soil and Foundation
Irvestigation, Proposed
Trickle Channel and Drop
Structures, Goldsmith Gulch,
South of Belleview Ave~ue,
Greenwood Village, Colorado

Job Number 86-191

Greenhorne and O'Mara, Inc.
1325 S. Colorado Blvd" Suite 405
Denver, Colorado 80222
Attn: Mr. Penn Gildersleeve

Gentlemen:

Ground Engineering Consultants, Inc. has recently completed
a soil and foundation investigation for the proposed drop
structures and trickle channel to be located along Goldsmith
Gulch, south of Belleview Avenue in Greenwood Village,
Colorado. The project site is shown on Figure 1.

Si te CQ.lJ.dit..'l.sllLs~ At the time of our' investilsation, th.e site
was occupied by the existing Goldsnith Gulch. It appeared
that a considerable amount of site grading had taken place
on both sides of the existing dra~nage. The site was
sparsely vegetated with weeds and grasses. A large number
of cattails were growing along the eXisting drainage.

The topography of the site is variable and generally sloped
moderately down to the existing drainage from the east and
west. An overall elevation difference of approximately 10
feet exists across the sit~ at the centerline of the
proposed trickle channel.

Water was observed in Goldsmith Gulch flowing from south to
north.

A new bridge is being built across
Belleview Avenue. A large number of
were scattered across the north end
appeared that the gulch in the area
construction of the new bridge.

Goldsmith Gulch at
end dumped fill piles
of the site. It also
had been diverted for

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