Project: Jobs Peak Ranch
Client: Five Creek LLC
Location: Douglas County, Nevada
Description:
Challenge: Jobs Peak Ranch presented several water-related engineering challenges and required careful cooperation with local, state and federal authorities. The primary collector road through the community crosses four perennial streams, resulting in design and permitting that required a detailed flood plain analysis and review by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. R.O. Anderson was initially engaged to design the water system and subsequently hired to address stream-crossing issues and prepare detailed subdivision improvement plans for several phases of two projects.
Solution: To meet the community’s special water requirements, we designed, permitted and operated an independent public water system, which included two municipal wells, a half-million-gallon water storage tank and a distribution system that due to site topography required nine unique pressure zones. To date, R.O. Anderson has also prepared the sensitive roadway and drainage designs for phases 2, 4 and 5 of the project, and the hydraulic analysis of Jobs Canyon Creek crossing, which included a wooden bridge and its abutments.