On June 9th, 2008 dignitaries including Senator Ken Salazar, Mayor John Hickenlooper, former Mayor Wellington Web, and Bill Vidal, Denver Manager of Public Works, dedicated the $15 Million South Platte River Globeville Flood Control Phase III Project. A City of Denver press release called the project the "Largest Flood Control Project in the Metropolitan Area." the Denver Post reported, "City Hails Marvel of Flood Control."

The project which was constructed in three phases over the last 13 years at a total cost of $25 Million, removed over 300 acres from the 100-year flood plain. In Phase III Bates Engineering, as a sub-consultant to prime consultant Love & Associates, Inc. was responsible for the design of the project structures, estimated at about $8 Million, including:

• ditch entry gate structure with two 18 x 7-foot radial gates and sand-out structure with a single 7 x 16 foot radial gate
• two-cell, each 7 x 18-feet, CBC under Franklin Street and 550-foot long concrete ditch channel
• two pans, 200-foot long, Denver Rock Island Railroad bridge over the South platte River

Diana Horner was Project Principal and lead designer. She was assisted by Kit Badger, who served as the field engineer. Bates Engineering thanks Love & Associates, Inc. for the opportunity to work on the project.

Bates Engineering is prequalified with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to provide services such as bridge design, civil engineering and engineering management.

In 1999, Bates was selected by CDOT for the Staff Bridge Non-project specific Contract - Statewide, the firm's first prime contract with CDOT. On Project No. C 0342-024, the US Greeley Bypass, Bates Engineering was responsible for the design of two concrete box culverts, Structures C-17-FQ and C-17-FR. Current CDOT work includes the preliminary design of six bridge structures at the Belleview Avenue and I-225 Interchange for the high-profile I-25 SE Corridor project as a subconsultant to Carter-Burgess and for the design of Structure C-19-AK in Region 4, under the Staff Bridge Non-project Specific Contract - Statewide. The bridge is a single span 124-feet long Bulb Tee Girder bridge with a 45-degree skew. The high degree of skew increased the design complexity due to the additional shear that occurs at the acute corners of the bridge deck.

Bates Engineering's CDOT work only accounts for about one half of our recent roadway and bridge design experience. We also designed: