...Projects

Current Projects

1. Lake County Assessor's Office - development and maintenance of a GIS geodatabase, including creation of new zoning layers, parcels, features, and maps for the entire county.
2. Lake County Open Space Initiative - involved with mapping and due diligence for open space initiative property aquisistion.
3. Lake County/Cloud City Ski Club Dutch Henri Hill - involved with oversight and land surveying for property transactions and site layout for Dutch Henri Hill ski, snowboard, and tubing park.
4. Lake County Office of Emergency Management - development and maintenance of a mapbook with ArcGIS depicting all Lake County roads, addresses, and points of interest.
5. Leadville Trail 100 - creation of GIS maps of Leadville Trail 100 "race across the sky" routes.
6. Local Real Estate/Title Agencies and Private Clients - Professional Land Surveying of mining claims, roads, subdivisions, topographic maps, improvement location certificates, land survey plats, ALTA Survey Plats, condominium maps, exhibits, and other land survey related documents.
7. Frontier Environmental Services - field surveying of soil reclamation and river restoration sites including creation of exhibits, cross-sections, and topographic maps.
8. Evergreen Land Company - field surveying of mining claims, roads, and subdivisions as well as GIS mapping of property and planning/zoning maps.

Past Projects

1. True Value Hardware Phase I ESA - The True Value Hardware Phase I ESA provides a summary of recognized environmental conditions (REC) as required by ASTM Standard E1527-05. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through Donald Sather to complete the Phase I ESA in leiu of a possible purchase of the property that would continue to serve as a hardware store.
2. Quincy Block Condominiums - The Quincy Block is a historic building on Harrison Avenue in downtown Leadville, CO. Great Divide Consulting has been contracted to complete a condominium map of the historical building.
3. Homestake Subdivision - Homestake Subdivision is a subdivision off Mountain View Drive in Leadville, CO. Great Divide Consulting has been contracted to develop site plans, landscaping, elevations, and marketing materials.
4. SourceWater Consulting (SWC) - SourceWater Consulting specializes in the analysis, planning, and management of environmental data throughout the State of Colorado. Great Divide Consulting has been contracted to complete surveys of ground water monitoring wells near Poncha Springs, CO for the purpose of ground water modeling/monitoring.
5. Frontier Environmental Services (FES) - Frontier Environmental Services provides environmental remediation services throughout the State of Colorado and beyond. Great Divide Consulting has been contracted to complete surveys for design purposes for a pond restoration near Fairplay, CO, groundwater remediation in Frisco, CO, and trout habitat creation/stream alteration in Golden, CO.
6. Gore Range Surveying, Eldridge Land Surveying, & Andrew P. Cruise Surveying - Gore Range Surveying, Eldridge Land Surveying, & Andrew P. Cruise Surveying are surveying firms that provide topographic maps, improvement location certificates, land survey plats, ALTA Survey Plats, condominium maps, exhibits, and other land survey related documents. Great Divide Consulting has been contracted to assist in the completion of all of the above.
7. Land Art- Land Art provides landscape architecture, land planning, and 3d illustration services. Great Divide Consulting has been contracted to perform field surveys for landscape design purposes.
8. Salcat Properties (SP) Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) - The SP Phase I ESA provides a summary of recognized environmental conditions (REC) as required by ASTM Standard E1527-00. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through SP to complete the Phase I ESA in leiu of a possible purchase of the property to serve as commercial development.
9. Salida Public Works Department (SPWD) Phase I ESA - The SPWD Phase I ESA provides a summary of recognized environmental conditions (REC) as required by ASTM Standard E1527-00. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through the SPWD to complete the Phase I ESA in leiu of a possible purchase of the property to serve as hotel.
10. Trans Moya Aqua (TMA) Global Wind Energy Systems (GWES) Phase I ESA - The TMA GWES Phase I ESA provides a summary of REC as required by the ASTM Standard E1527-00. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through TMA to complete the Phase I ESA in leiu of a possible wind farm installation on the King Ranch outside of Cheyenne, WY.
11. Parkville Water District (PWD) Phase I ESA - The PWD Phase I ESA provides a summary of REC as required by ASTM Standard E1527-00. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through PWD to complete the Phase I ESA in leiu of a possible purchase of the property to serve as a PWD headquarters.
12. Upper Arkansas 208 Water Quality Plan - The 208 Water Quality Plan provides a summary of existing information that characterizes the 1) point sources of pollution and the 2) non-point sources of pollution to the drinking water watershed within Lake County. This effort was completed as partial fulfillment of the Section 208 requirements within the Clean Water Act, which promulgates the investigation, evaluation, and assessment of pollution sources within watersheds of variable use within a given county. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through the Upper Arkansas Area Council of Governments to assist in the completion of water quality plans for the counties of Lake, Chaffee, Custer, and Fremont.
13. Western Control Systems (WCS) - Western Control Systems designs and develops transformers for municipal power stations, private plants, as well as for the Department of Energy in many southwestern states. Great Divide Consulting was contracted through WCS to assist in the production of AutoCAD schematics as well as AutoCAD instruction/standardization for other WCS employees.
14. Jones Gravel Pit Reclamation Plan - The Jones Gravel Pit Reclamation Plan provides and serves as a research and remediation guide for returning a closed gravel mine within Lake County, Colorado back to it's native condition. The plan was prepared for Climax Molybdenum Compnay as a capstone course in the Environmental Technology program at Colorado Mountain College. The plan is currently being implemented and provides "hands on experience" to surveying, equipment operations, and all natural resource management CMC students.