Lucas Babbitt PE, CFM

Principal Water Resources Engineer & Owner

Mr. Babbitt has 15 years of experience focused in river and watershed restoration with responsibilities in team management, personnel management, project management, engineering analysis/design, and construction management. He has successfully directed and designed multiple projects including largescale master plans, dam removal, and river restoration projects. He has been responsible for managing construction fees up to $7 million dollars and has a proven track record with resource, time, and budget management. His areas of expertise include watershed and geomorphic assessments, watershed hydrology, natural channel design, river mechanics, and watershed master planning.

Mr. Babbitt has over 350 course hours of specialized training focused in natural channel restoration and has restored over 50 miles of streams and rivers in his career. He has recently co‐ authored natural channel design criteria for the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control & Greenway District that is being used to implement over $70M in restoration work and is also working probono with the City of Colorado Springs to develop their stream restoration criteria. He also co‐authored the design guidelines published by the Colorado Water Conservation Board that were used to implement over $75M in flood recovery stream restoration projects. requirements and processes. He is professionally involved with RMSRC, ASFPM, and CRA and has been selected to give 15 project presentations over the past five years. Additionally, Mr. Babbitt has been published in the Colorado Riparian Association periodical for an innovative approach to watershed planning.

Licenses:

  • Professional Engineer, State of Colorado #42636

  • Certified Floodplain Manager #2704

Education:

  • Colorado State University – Master’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering

  • Colorado State University – B.S. Civil Engineering

Continuing Education:

  • Wildland Hydrology: Level IV – River Restoration & Natural Channel Design

  • Wildland Hydrology: Level III – River Assessment & Monitoring

  • Wildland Hydrology: Level II – River Morphology & Applications

  • Wildland Hydrology: Level I – Applied Fluvial Geomorphology