Engineering
Mandated:
42-2-108 C.R.S. Mandates the creation of a primary and secondary system of road in all counties.
43-2-111 C.R.S. Assigns these primary and secondary roads to counties for construction and maintenance. Roads, by definition, include bridges, culverts, footpaths and rights of way.
The Engineering Division workforce is comprised of 13 employees providing such functions as project surveying, roadway and bridge design, construction monitoring, land use review, capital improvement project management, hydrological studies, excavation and access permit management, transportation infrastructure planning, project planning, weed management and various other engineering-related functions. The Division's staff is supplemented through contractual arrangements with private sector consultants for such services as road and bridge replacement design, electrical system analysis and hydrologic analysis. As mentioned above, the services provided by the Engineering Division are funded by the Road and Bridge Fund. Project-specific funding supplements these efforts depending upon the nature of a given project.