Winner of CASFM’s 2024 Outstanding Construction project! Molson Coors Brewing Company and the City of Golden worked together to restore a quarter-mile of Kennys Run that had been underground in a series of culverts and pipes installed over the last 150 years. ICON Engineering led a multi-disciplinary team through planning and design of an open channel with 100-year flood capacity. The resulting flood risk mitigation allows for a modernization of the brewery that removes over 12 acres of industrial facility and approximately 5 acres of downtown business district from 1 to 3 feet of flood depth. ICON worked through a plan that provides a balanced retrofit of existing parking lots and industrial land into a natural armor stone bottom channel with two roadway crossings, two pedestrian crossings, improved low flow trail access and protection of existing irrigation ditch headworks. This project is a $10M investment in restoring a key element of stormwater conveyance through the City of Golden.
Floodplain
Vista Engineering Group with Molson Coors Brewing Company and the City of Golden
Design Complete: 2020
Construction Complete: 2023