Greenwood Village, Colorado
Channel improvements at Greenwood Gulch are a second generation flood control measure intended to reduce overspill potential and cattail habitat through what had been a state of the art peak reduction, flood control facility when constructed in the late 1980s. The original engineered channel was ideal habitat for cattails that have flourished and greatly reduced the channel’s cross-sectional capacity. The new, low-flow channel utilizes advanced stabilization methods to run more steeply along the corridor and drain the cattails.
StudioCPG worked with project engineers to develop appropriate planting sections to provide a stable channel and develop a diverse ecology. Improvements include a variety of seed mixes, wetland sod, wetland plugs and deep root plants in conjunction with coir logs, mats, and erosion control fabrics.
Our work included illustrative graphics that were used during community outreach meetings. These drawings helped homeowners visualize and understand the impacts of improvements through their backyards.
Project incorporates two types of channel treatments, full bank natural channel and full bank riprap channel.
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Pueblo, Colorado
StudioCPG provided landscape architecture and graphic assistance to Short Elliot Hendrickson, Inc., engineers to create Low Impact Development (LID) concepts for the State Fairgrounds and an adjacent neighborhood in the City of Pueblo
Denver, Colorado
StudioCPG’s ongoing interest in flood control and water resources is reflected by diverse range of project types including the redevelopment and revegetation of lakes and waterways in both urban and rural contexts.
Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado
The new Denver Zoo exhibit design is a taxonomic-based site plan that exhibits animals grouped by family, genus and species based on environment, including exhibits that contain a variety of species sharing a distinct landscape setting at the Toyota Elephant Passage.
