Returning Long‐Term Stability to Urban Streams
Primarily based on Natural Channel Design (NCD) principles, our experience ranges from small stormwater outfall stabilizations to large stream restoration projects covering entire watersheds. We design to restore degraded streams by mimicking the characteristics of a “stable” natural system. Our stream restoration projects result in stable, self-sustaining, and aesthetically pleasing riparian corridors that can also earn pollutant removal credit in support of MS4 and/or TMDL regulatory requirements.
Leveraging Technology to Design Natural Systems
To help facilitate our stream restoration designs, we have developed a proprietary software system known as StreamNCD™. The system runs in the AutoDesk Civil 3D environment and allows efficient design and manipulation of a 3D stream corridor. This enables WSSI’s engineers the flexibility to easily optimize restoration designs through an iterative process to meet site-specific demands – a process that conventional design tools and methodologies limit through time and budget constraints.
There’s No One Better in the Field!
WSSI provides exceptional stream restoration design and implementation, drawing on our experience, technology, and training. We lead the field in the extent and depth of our staff training and experience in stream restoration and fluvial geomorphology, and we cross-train our staff to provide technical competency in every phase, from data collection to design and from construction oversight to monitoring.
In terms of formal training, our staff are some of the most highly trained in the country. Stream restoration assessment and design classes with Dave Rosgen, PhD’s Wildland Hydrology are one aspect of our rigorous training program. In addition, we provide all the various disciplines essential to developing a successful project (including engineering, science, survey, and permitting staff) under one roof. The close, daily interaction among these disciplines cannot be matched by other firms that lack all these necessary pieces of the puzzle.