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Mayor Bud Starker, City of Wheat Ridge | MHFD Board Chair 

Factors beyond our control are ever-present. Hear stories of building community and finding passion projects despite a seemingly never-ending to-do list.

Understanding what climate change means in the semi-arid west and what resources are available, is the first step in mitigating impacts.

MHFD has developed a new modeling framework to systematically compute all effective hydrology studies. This will be utilized for design hydrology, validation of actual events, and use precipitation forecasts to predict possible flooding in near-real time.

MHFD Confluence is a tool for all of us. This presentation highlights what we’ve accomplished and where we’re going.

Small pipes are where injuries and deaths happen most frequently. This presentation provides an update to the safety grate study conducted at the CSU Hydraulics Lab.  

Where competing public safety concerns exist, engineers and local governments need to evaluate the impacts of all potential hazards to find a solution.   

This presentation explores what we've observed in piloting rain-on-mesh and what possibilities may exist going forward.

Connecting design to construction, a seasoned construction manager shares lessons from field experience.

Project champions make great projects happen. This presentation examines the skills and commitment needed be a project champion.

Great projects require commitment. This project demonstrates what that commitment looks like from funding to close-out and beyond.

This presentation summarizes observations from a regional study of bioretention systems and connects operations and maintenance findings to new design criteria.  

Learning from past decisions in design, this presentation delves into the true cost and consequences of some of our design assumptions and the importance of good criteria.

A engaged group of stakeholders can shape the way we think about design. As we celebrate newly updated design criteria, we are looking ahead to the next step.

This stream reclamation project was recently completed by the District and partners. Hear our lessons-learned in the design, permitting and construction process.

Hear about the steps we take to understand critical threats and improve safety when a flood-related loss occurs in our region.

Studies on fluvial hazards offer an alternative perspective on traditional flood risk, equipping stakeholders with crucial additional information to help navigate the complexities of flood hazards and risk management

The District’s Construction Fund was established in 1974 (50 years ago!) to create a consistent funding source for Capital Improvement Projects.  This presentation will share some interesting history, lessons learned, and where we hope to go from here.