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AUTHORS
Christopher Goodwin, PE, manages the water resources group for Ayres Associates in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin. He is responsible for planning, managing, designing, and inspecting water resources
projects. His experience includes dam design, dam inspections, spillway hydraulics, dam hydrology,
embankment design, dam permitting, and preparing emergency action plans and operations plans for
dams. He also has experience in storm sewer system design and modeling, environmental permitting,
wetland investigations and permitting, lake management planning, and groundwater remediation
system design. Before joining Ayres Associates, Chris was employed by the Pepin, Vernon, and St. Croix
County Land Conservation Departments.
Todd Rudolph, PE, is a water resources engineer for Ayres Associates in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He
performs a variety of engineering tasks, including hydraulic and hydrologic computations; design and
inspection of hydraulic structures, such as gate design and inspection; and related structural design.
He also provides construction inspection support. Todd is an approved Part 12D inspector for FERC
dams. He is Ayres’ lead structural engineer for the design of hinged floating bulkheads, which have
been used nationwide for dewatering hydro project spillways during rehabilitation, construction, and
testing of spillway gates.
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