WSP07325

• File Number: 8443.600
• Description: Narrows Unit - Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/17/1977
• Author: Dames And Moore
• Title: Proposal Safety review of Foundation and Embankment Narrows Dam, South Platte River Fort Mortan, Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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DAMES B MOORE

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LARRY K, DAVIDSON
Foundation and Geotechnical Engineering

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LARRY K. DAVIDSON joined Dames & Moore as an engineer analyst. Since joining the
firm. he has assisted in or directed site investigations and engineering studies in Canada, Johnston
Island, Canton Island. and more OW" ten of the United States. He is presently serving as an associate
of the firm,

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Mr, Davidson has been involved in the design and construction of a wide variety of new
developments. He has been responsible for the field and laboratory studies and preparation of
foundation support and construction recommendations for high-rise buildings; power plants; oil
refinery facilities; large storage tanks for water and petroleum projects; bridges and several types of
marine structures including wharves. anchored. bulkheads, offshore drilling platforms, and offshore
islands,

On several of thL' high-rise building projects. tieback retaining wall systems were designed to
support vertical slopes in deep construction excavations. He has been responsible for runway
pavement evaluations <It military airports on Johnston and Canton Islands.

Me. Davidson directed the field investigations and seepage and stability evaluations for
several /lood-control and water-storage reservoir projects. These projects involved both earth fill and
concrL'le 5ravity dams. One of the dam projects involved thL' diversion of a major river in northern
Manitoba.

Recent experience has included the supervision of a number of projects for an electric
utility client. Major projects for this client included site selection, environmental and geotechnical
studics for a fossil-fueled generating station; route selection and environmental studies for a
tr<lnsmission line; and foundation investigations for several new transmission lines and rebuilds. He
assisted the client in the development of design criteria for steel-pole transmission structures. and
participated in a testing program to field-check the criteria.

For a IS-montll period. Mr. Davidson was Dames & Moore's resident soils and foundation
engineer for the Disney World development in central Florida. He served as an advisor and
inspection supervisor for site preparation and foundation construction operations on the site.
Temporary and permanent dewatering systems were important features of construction on this site.

He hns directed geotechnical consulting services for mining projects in Colorado, Arizona,
New Mexico. Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. These projects haw involvcd site selection.
site investigation, und design of tailings retention embankments and milling or processing facilities:
evaluations of the feasibility of mining copper and uranium deposits by the in situ leaching;

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