As a component of the overall environmental design of this freeway, Riparia developed a restoration plan for a biodiverse habitat located within the »
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Triggered by the creation of the 68th Street Wetlands and the planned stormwater treatment facilities at the East Calgary Landfill, a 2 km long creek »
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In order to enable the development of the adjacent Mission Recreation Park, several local agricultural drainage ditches were to be intercepted and »
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This project was initiated because of the sensitivity of the large-scale fish hatchery aquaculture operation located within Pearce Estates Park, adjacent »
Click Here To Read MoreRiparia completed the environmental design to divert 15 km of a natural creek to allow the construction of an oil sands tailing facility. The project »
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The Kennedale Works Yard is a large-scale test and demonstration site in Edmonton for sustainable urban drainage (SUD) LID techniques, specifically, »
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This project is an example of the incorporation of Low Impact Development (LID) techniques within a densely developed urban site. All of the landscape »
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Riparia completed the design and tendering of a 90,000 cubic meter wetpond and wetland system to manage the runoff from an industrial catchment area »
Click Here To Read MoreThe Sunnyhill Housing Cooperative, in Central Calgary, is a flat, poorly drained site with a long history of drainage problems. Working with civil »
Click Here To Read MoreThe Northeast Stoney Trail Stormwater System is an environmental design project for Calgary’s Northeast bypass freeway. Riparia provided environmental »
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Working as a subconsultant to Dillon Consulting, Bernie Amell was the principal environmental designer for a stormwater pond and wetland system under »
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Riparia conducted a critique of the Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) completed for the Heartland Transmission Project. This critique involved assessing »
Click Here To Read MoreThe expansion of this large resort in a highly visible location near Banff and is exposed to a high degree of regulatory and public scrutiny. Defensible »
Click Here To Read MoreThe open character of the uplands surrounding Dinosaur Provincial Park lead to acute concern that the visual experience within the park would be substantially »
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This 600-unit retirement village is being built on a rural site beyond the water infrastructure limits of Calgary. Stormwater and irrigation systems »
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The objective of this study (completed in 2010) is to balance divergent interests affecting a stream in the industrial sector of Calgary. Desired »
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Bernie Amell was the principal environmental design professional working with a large interdisciplinary team on a 50 year strategic plan for the drainage »
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This began with a strategic study of over 80% of the built area of Calgary, identifying and prioritizing 37 potential sites for major end-of-pipe »
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Bernie Amell identified an opportunity to extend the LRT stormwater management facility to provide a cost effective retrofit to treat water from a »
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This extended detention wetland for the treatment of urban runoff was designed within the volumetric, budget and land dedication parameters of a previously »
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The Burnsmead project is one of the City of Calgary stormwater quality retrofit projects. It treats stormwater from a developed area that was previously »
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The Marshall Springs project is part of a larger program of stormwater quality retrofit projects intended to reduce contaminant loads to rivers and »
Click Here To Read MoreBernie Amell was the primary wetlands designer for a portion of the ‘Canadian Wilds’ area at the Calgary Zoo. The project receives water from »
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Riparia has been responsible for conserving and restoring the vigour of several heritage trees and stands in the Calgary area. One example is the »
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This project began in 1999 as a stormwater facility to manage runoff volumes and contaminant loading from a 6 km length of Deerfoot Trail, Calgary’s »
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Mr. Amell was the principal environmental designer for an extensive pond, wetland and riparian habitat system located between Atim Creek and an interchange »
Click Here To Read MoreRiparia was the environmental consultant for the installation of a sewer force main pipeline that traversed two major naturalized parks in Medicine »
Click Here To Read MoreThis is a phased project that will construct a large wetland to manage stormwater from a long-term development area in Northeast Medicine Hat. Once »
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Bernie Amell was the primary site planner and landscape architect for this facility in the heart of Lougheed Provincial Park. A central lodge, cottages »
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Bernie Amell was the initiator of the Calgary Perimeter Greenway, an 80+ km long open space corridor centred on the creation of a 4 m wide multi-use »
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In the mid to late 1980’s, Bernie was the principal landscape architect for the major portion of Canada Olympic Park, including the Ski Jump Bowl »
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Bernie Amell was the principal co-author of this policy document that was prepared in the early 1980’s. It has been used to guide road design »
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The design for this site involved the integration of a borrow pit to generate fill materials to raise the development area above the floodplain. The »
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