Environmental Engineering
Aqua Terra Environmental, LLC.
Environmental engineering is the branch of engineering that is concerned with protecting human health and the environment from the adverse impacts of human activities. Adverse impacts include such things as pollution from industrial processes, or increased erosion potential from unmanaged disturbed surfaces. The goal of environmental engineering is to improve the quality of the environment in which human society and other ecosystems exist. Aqua Terra focuses this engineering discipline on all aspects of protecting Colorado’s water resources. Utilizing this discipline allows Aqua Terra to provide support for large water projects and stream restoration projects.
Environmental engineering and compliance starts with a design that takes into account the public use, ecological functionality, and compliance of a project. Aqua Terra provides plan review for stream restoration projects which focus on constructability, as well as overall ability to achieve compliance, while constructing and rebuilding stream channels. Aqua Terra strives to ensure that the proper amount of construction limits are identified for constructability and permit compliance. Aqua Terra creates and reviews water control plans which take into account diversions, cofferdams, construction dewatering, and treatment systems to ensure that the proper control measures are being considered for the amount of tributary area and disturbed surface being considered for your scope of work.
Topography, depth to bedrock, soil conditions, unique water resources, and endangered plant and animal species are just a few of the unique aspects that must be considered when working in Colorado and other parts of the arid West. These unique factors can sometimes present design and construction challenges. Aqua Terra utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, and will work to solve each unique variable encountered on a construction site. It’s easy to see why a single type of control measure (C.M.) maynot be appropriate given these unique factors. Just because something worked on a previous project does not necessarily mean that the same process or C.M. can be used on a new site. Aqua Terra takes the guesswork out of determining the correct, cost effective, and complaint management strategy for our clients construction site.