Stream Landscape Architecture + Planning

Interesting article, staggering statistics. https://lnkd.in/gcv2NvAU

Thank you CAFSM for hosting this tour of Panorama Park in Colorado Springs! The thoughtful arrangement of landscaped features, bioretention, plaza area, and site-wide land forming absolutely elevate this beautiful park! Not to mention, there's a bike park in the detention facilify! The hardwork and creativity has not gone unnoticed. Great job, STREAM and City of Colorado Springs!

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CASFM 2024 did not disappoint! We love this time of year, spending quality time with our project partners and clients. It takes a village to roll out a 3-day conference chock full of programming. Congrats to all the award winners, co-presenters and co-sponsors. ICON Engineering, Inc. Muller Engineering Company Jacobs Mile High Flood District ERO Resources Corporation Olsson

The COSA Conference [Colorado Open Space Alliance] was another hit this year. What a great opportunity to expand our thinking and share ideas with clients and colleagues. Thank you to all our partners!

It’s conference season and we are super excited about this week’s lineup at the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers Conference [CASFM] in Beaver Creek. We hope you can stop by for two great presentations by Stream’s Jesse Clark and Derek Updegrove, on Tuesday, October 1st. Stream LA+P is also a proud sponsor of the conference and a big supporter of their mission to keep Colorado’s watershed resilient. Partners: City of Colorado Springs Stormwater Enterprise, City of Westminster, Mile High Flood District, Olsson, Muller Engineering Company

I’m so devastated to see all the footage of widespread flooding in Tennessee and North Carolina. Having gone through similar scale flooding in Colorado in 2013, here are a few lessons I’d share with fellow floodplain management and stream restoration professionals who will get involved in recovery efforts: 1 - Do not wait on regulatory approvals to start construction repairs in the waterways if there is a legitimate ongoing life safety issue to address. We are usually so careful about following FEMA Floodplain and Clean Water Act regulations, but regulators will not (should not?) fault you for taking action in a situation like this. 2 - Be ready to provide a shoulder for residents to cry on. The type of help many people will need will be of the emotional sort - be there for them. This is a very traumatic experience to go through. 3 - Document everything, as there will likely be federal reimbursement opportunities after a disaster declaration, but the paperwork will matter. 4 - Build back better wherever you can. 5 - Infrastructure recovery will take years. To clarify lesson 1 - I don’t mean to say folks should do whatever they want in the waterways, but in situations with an ongoing and continuing threat to life safety they should take action. After the 2013 Colorado flood there were situations where streams moved so much they were no longer flowing under fully intact bridges. I made the mistake of waiting an extra couple of weeks on 404 clearances to begin moving the streams back when in retrospect we shouldn’t have waited because of the legitimate ongoing threat. Stay safe everyone! #helene

Join Shaelyn Vering [Stream LA+P], joins Ray Winn [Arapahoe County], Bill Mangle [ERO Resources] and Rich Spann [Muller Engineering] as they present a 265-acre Kiowa Creek Open Space project at the 2024 COSA Conference in Grand Junction. The team will discuss how development is not only fueling the need for a programmed open space, it is also causing potentially massive hydrologic changes to Kiowa Creek. The combination of these two changes requires a design approach that balances resource protection, rural Colorado heritage, and recreational activities. We hope to see you on Monday, Sept. 30th at 9am, at the Grand Junction Convention Center.