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Client Need:
Ravenna is a new private golf course community in Colorado that needed two distinct water features for its development. Colorado Hardscapes built the Muller Engineering designed water features to be as organic to the terrain as possible, aesthetically pleasing, and functional.
Solution:
(First 2 photos below) First, a smaller water feature was needed to act as a trickle channel in an area near some cottonwood trees which the development wanted to save. The country club overlooks the trees and aesthetics were very important along with getting water to the trees from the creek through the drop structure. The trickle channel is composed of shotcrete and was made flat to give the illusion of more water.
The upper fore-bay gives way to a weir by the bridge. The channel itself is shotcrete carved and colored to look like eroded earth. Each weir was stained to match red rocks nearby to give the appearance that the channel eroded natural red rock at the weirs.
Chris Kroeger, the engineer, worked closely with Colorado Hardscapes’ team to build the Ravenna features and he chose natural rocks to lay up against the trickle channel. Once the rocks were carefully placed, the CHI team built the channel around the path set by the natural rocks. The channel meanders for a more natural effect.
For the second feature near the entrance to the development (photos 3-5 below), basically a storm drain was needed to contain the water between the creek and river. However, this “storm drain” had to blend with the natural elements and even enhance the landscape since it is at the entrance to this luxury community.
For both the floor of the structure and the walls there is at least 12 inches of concrete (and sometimes more) in the structure.
The upper containment pond is fed from a natural creek and is also supported by a re-circulating system from the micro pool down below. Engineered so that whatever water from the natural creek that came in would flow out to keep water circulating, the micro pool catches smaller sediment and the upper bay is designed to catch the larger sediment.
All of the artificial rock was colored to match the surrounding red rocks.
Results:
Water shed for runoff allows a decorative way to keep erosion down. Both features accomplished the objectives of functionality and beauty for the development.
Awards:
2006 Rocky Mountain ACI, Award of Merit, Unique Use of Concrete
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General Contractor:
Hudick Civil Contractors
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Engineer:
Muller Engineering
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Completed:
October 2006
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10902 W. Waterton Road
Littleton, CO
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