Stantec awarded $20M contract for Gross Reservoir expansion engineering work

BOULDER COUNTY — Canadian headquartered engineering and construction firm Stantec Inc. (NYSE: STN) has won a $20 million contract to provide engineering services for the second phase of the Gross Reservoir expansion.

The Denver Water project “will raise the height of the existing concrete curved gravity dam by 131 feet, increasing the reservoir’s capacity to approximately 119,000 total acre-feet and making it the tallest dam in Colorado,” according to a Stantec news release. 

The project will be designed to prevent water shortfalls during droughts or other weather-related events such as wildfires and will provide mitigation and enhancement projects that the Colorado Department…