topic · issue
Dam safety and Albion Dam storage
- Kind
- issue
- Domain
- Environment, energy and utilities
- Seeded from
- “Dam Safety and Albion Dam Storage Expansion”
- Search phrases
- Albion, Barker dam, Barker reservoir, dam safety, reservoir storage
- On record
- 33 mentions in 19 meetings explorer count
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Across bodies and years
Dot size: meetings that mention it that year. Recordings reach back to 2011 for a few bodies and to 2022 for most; agendas only from April 2026.
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2026 4 mentions
flood mitigation, wildfire resilience, dam safety, transportation safety, and other critical public safety infrastructure
The reason why the Barker Dam stability project, it is a highly technical project
in terms of the details was there any discussion that I missed about the Barker Dam stability project
Staff are also following DAM's local regulations to advance a phased site investigation for Barker Dam.
2025 7 mentions
flagged for potential seep. Review, and that's the Barker Dam and the Violet Bridge.
I'm concerned that both of the ones that are listed here, the Barker Dam and Violet Bridge.
The Albion dam 2022, 26. Project Barker dam work 2024 to 2032
we have a 35 million dollar project for the for Barker dam
we did a uh dam stability project and looked at the hydraologic and seismic loading
they readjusted the way they look at dam safety related to the hydraologic hazard of a dam
Barker Reservoir is the primary reservoir for that system, and we're continuing to look at upgrades and coordination with the State engineer
2024 11 mentions
of C projects that we're recommending to move forward this year include the Barker Dam stability project as well
we have more storage rights than we in the Albion dam than we than we've been historically taking advantage of
Based on that dam safety analysis and then moving on to the water treatment
we have some ongoing projects on the the Albion dam and the Barker gravity pipeline
Are these dams safe? And looking at them a different way.
And then finally, this watershed operations that we look at, and it's things like dam rehabilitation.
the dam safety Engineers office would give a design approval at the end of final design but we have multiple meetings
the state Engineers office Dam safety branch and the City city office responsible for the city's Wetlands
a dam permit must be obtained from the state of Colorado the city would be wise to delay open space disposal
To the right are the degraded downstream face of the dam, which has not been rehabilitated yet
The first is going to be a water utility project, and that's the Albion Dam rehabilitation, which has completed its second out of 3 years
2023 6 mentions
So that that's why there's so we have Albion dam in here.
the Barker Dam outlet works rehab would be 13 million in 2024
the Albion Dam project just currently in year 2 of the 3 of it's 3 year construction.
we are in the middle of a multi year day maintenance project on Albion Reservoir
I I think that dam is probably on the order of a 100 years old, so it's it's been around for quite a while
the Albion dam is in our Silver Lake Watershed and doing repairs to that it's a multi-year project
2022 1 mention
what we do in in utilities is Dam safety and and we do exercises
2020 3 mentions
it will apply to our dam safety component of the design
when you design a Spillway you come up with What's called the probable maximum flood
the state engineer is for the dam design and Dam safety component of it
2019 1 mention
still utilities multi-million dollar projects like the Albion Dam and the lower grooves Creek sewer replacement so big anticipated year in 2022