Van Tuyl: Controlling Where the Water Goes
After a week full of rain and flooding, it was entirely fitting to have a Van Tuyl over the challenges of designing storm-water control measures. The talk was given by Holly Piza, who is a senior project engineer for the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District on the front range. While there was some anticipation of discussion over the recent deluge of water that assaulted the Front Range, Piza was frank with the audience, “I guess it is a great time to talk about rainfall and flooding, but that’s not what I planned.” Luckily for the audience, there was much more at stake than large floods in the design for storm-water control measures.