RED HILLS

DESERT GARDEN

Project Info

Rosenberg Associates partnered with Natural Channel Design to engineer a functioning stream as the park’s water feature.  Having a water feature in a park is not uncommon, except that this water feature needed to not only provide a visual enhancement to the park, it also needed to function as a biologically sustainable habitat for the Virgin River native fish species.  This was accomplished by designing a stream that utilized water pumped to the park from the Virgin River, that featured pools and eddies that invite productive fish habitat, and that had the capability of mimicking seasonal low-flow and high-flow conditions.

Work Performed:

• Base mapping and survey
• Geotechnical investigation
• Stream hydraulics modeling and pump station
• Slot canyon retaining wall structural design
• Project construction plans and specifications
• Construction engineering
• Construction surveying