Before You Buy or DesignSite Stormwater Check

Buying land, scraping an old building, or laying out a new subdivision or retail pad? Stormwater decides more of that layout than most people expect: whether the site needs its own detention, how big it has to be, whether it can go underground, and whether the floodplain is involved. Find out before the purchase goes hard or the site plan is fixed, not in the second round of review comments.

What you get
  • What the site triggers under the jurisdiction's criteria, and whether a master plan or regional pond already covers it
  • Where detention and water quality can go, and roughly how much of the site they take
  • Surface versus underground storage, weighed against what the land is worth
  • The approvals in play, including floodplain, FEMA, and Army Corps, and how long they take
Check a Site

Getting It Designed and ApprovedDrainage Design & Approval

Once the layout is set, you need a drainage design the jurisdiction will approve and a contractor can build. We take the stormwater side from preliminary design through approval, and stay on through construction so questions in the field are answered by the engineer who designed it.

What you get
  • Drainage reports and plans for detention, water quality, storm sewer, inlets, and the outfall
  • Submittals and responses to review comments through approval
  • Floodplain permits, and variances where the site doesn't fit the standard criteria
  • Construction support and as-built certification
Start a Project

When Something Isn't WorkingDrainage Diagnosis & Fix

A pond that won't drain, a parking lot that floods in modest storms, or an inspection finding that keeps coming back usually has one specific cause. Finding it before anyone bids a repair is the difference between fixing the problem once and paying for the same repair every few years. The work is phased: the diagnosis comes first, and you can stop there.

What you get
  • A diagnosis built from the approved plans, a survey of what's in the ground, and a model of how it actually performs
  • Repair options with cost ranges, before you commit to design
  • Stamped repair or retrofit drawings, taken through the jurisdiction
  • Retrofits that bring an older pond up to current standards when a site redevelops
Get a Diagnosis

Keeping It in ComplianceInspections & O&M

Detention ponds and water quality facilities come with inspection and maintenance obligations recorded against the property, and missed inspections tend to surface as a letter from the city. We keep them on schedule and keep the records that show it.

What you get
  • Annual inspections signed by a Colorado Professional Engineer, formatted for the jurisdiction
  • Repairs listed in order of urgency
  • A maintenance schedule and budget built from your O&M agreement
  • One schedule across every property you manage
Schedule Inspections

Every Site Is Different

Tell us about the site and what's going on, and we'll tell you what it needs and what the next step is.

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