Castle Rock's New Lift Station Complete

HDR and Aslan Construction, in coordination with the Town of Castle Rock, hosted an open house and tour in late November for the Mitchell Creek Lift Station at 5708 Wagonwheel Rd., Castle Rock.

The sanitary sewer lift station began operation on Sept. 10, 2003 and will accommodate residential and commercial expansion throughout the lift station's service area. HDR served as the engineering design consultant and Aslan provided construction services for the lift station.

The nine-month project increased the lift station's daily flow capacity from 450 gal. per minute to 820 gal. per minute and maximized use of the existing infrastructure, saving the town money.

For many years, the town operated a buried package lift station to serve the Mitchell Creek basin area. The lift station is located at the site of a wastewater treatment facility built several years ago but never brought online.

In recent years, development progressed in the basin to a point where the existing package station could not meet current demands. An increase in maximum daily flow capacity from 450 gpm to 820 gpm was needed and options to use all, or at least some portion, of the existing wastewater treatment facility structure were evaluated.

HDR's approach was to use the existing aeration basin as the footprint for the new lift station and constructed walls to create the wet well, dry well and an overflow basin required by the Cherry Creek Basin Authority. This helped to avoid expensive, time-consuming excavation, as well as enabled HDR and Aslan to use much of the existing influent channel and yard piping.

Additional design features include a masonry block building over the wet well and dry well, a standby diesel generator, flow metering, channel grinder, split wet well to accommodate future expansion and an overhead hoist and trolley.

Lafayette Council Adopts New Comprehensive Plan

The Lafayette City Council recently voted unanimously to adopt the city's newly updated comprehensive plan produced by RNL Design.

The plan translates the community's vision and development goals into policies grounded in sound planning principles as well as market and economic realities.
Addressing both the immediate and long-term interests of Lafayette, the comprehensive plan will guide the city's planning decisions for the next five to 10 years.

The comprehensive plan targets open areas worth preserving because of their ecology or their ability to preserve Lafayette's separation from neighboring communities. In addition, the plan emphasizes the use of mixed-use development in strategic locations throughout the city. This would bolster lagging sales tax revenues while integrating new developments with the city's neighborhoods.

Other key objectives addressed by the plan include maintaining Lafayette's small-town atmosphere, defining the city's regional role and ensuring that future development enhances the character of the community.

The plan provides specific direction and implementation policies about issues associated with transportation and circulation; urban growth and planning area boundaries; recreation facilities/parks/open space; public facilities; utilities; and drainage.

Working with citizens were the Planning Commission, Citizens Advisory Committee, city staff and the RNL Design consultants.

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