Water Resource Engineering & Consulting
Water supply in the West is our greatest and most heavily-used natural resource. It is also increasingly the most complex to manage and permit. Our skilled team of engineers, hydrogeologists, aquatic ecologists, and water quality specialists offer a broad spectrum of water resource services and water rights experience to our clients. We have served private development, agriculture and ranching, municipal, industrial, and mining clients in water permitting.
Our Capabilities
Water Rights Services
Water right permitting, water court adjudication support, real estate pre-buy water right evaluations, due diligence, expert testimony during legal cases, Southwest Montana water right experts
WATER RESOURCE ENGINEERING SERVICES
Water well and irrigation well design, well siting, public water supply design and permitting, aquifer testing
DISCHARGE AND WATER QUALITY PROTECTION
Groundwater discharge permitting, surface water MPDES permitting, injection well permitting, stormwater permitting and compliance, septic approval, Level II nitrogen reducing wastewater systems, Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plans (SPCC), Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting, water quality monitoring
Irrigation Systems
Irrigation structure design and rehabilitation, fish-friendly irrigation diversion structures, ditch and canal and linings.
Dams and Reservoirs
Dam design and rehabilitation, high hazard dam inspection, compliance with DNRC Dam Safety Program and Montana Dam Safety Act
Big Hole Cooperative Ditch Company
Our engineers planned and designed this fish friendly diversion to both facilitate irrigation water management and improve fish passage for endangered species. This design-build project includes a new headgate structure, measuring structure, and rock drop weirs in the river specifically designed to provide native fish safe passage.
Big Horn Water Reservation efficiency review
Our water resource scientists provided the Big Horn Conservation District with water right accounting and efficiency review of current appropriations for this state water reservation. The Big Horn Water Reservation currently serves 5,000 acres of high productivity farmland in south-central Montana.
Cataract dam inspection and rehabilitation
Our engineers assisted with the high hazard dam inspection and rehabilitation assessment for the 80-foot tall earthen Cataract Creek Dam which impounds a 1,500 acre foot irrigation reservoir. We assist dam operators in complying with DNRC Dam Safety Program regulations.
New Irrigation Well Water Rights
This ranch required a new reliable source of irrigation water. Our hydrogeologists provided a groundwater evaluation to identify a site, drilling depth, and design for a highly productive well. We completed a Montana DNRC closed basin water right permit for groundwater.
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