Overview
 Water is one of our most precious resources. However, without management, water can present a multitude of problems ranging from flooding to drought. In addition, water-borne constituents can pose potential environmental impacts.
Exponent’s Water Resources group specializes in the application of proven hydrologic, hydraulic, hydrodynamic, and sediment transport research and science to provide scientifically sound and cost-effective solutions to our clients. Complex problems of an interdisciplinary nature are addressed through close interaction with Exponent’s other practices.
The Water Resources group brings a high level of expertise with an array of modeling tools and analysis techniques. We routinely use accepted and appropriate one-, two-, and three-dimensional models for simulating flow and transport, supplemented with focused field and laboratory investigations, geographic information systems, pre- and post-processing tools, and visualization and animation routines. We determine the appropriate approach for modeling and analysis, and often custom-tailor software packages to meet our clients’ specific needs.
Our services include:
Hydrology and Hydraulics
- Hydrologic frequency analysis
- Rainfall-runoff analysis
- Hydrologic routing
- Reservoir systems
- Open channel and closed conduit flow
- Best management practices
- Watershed modeling
- Hydraulic structures
- Retention-detention basin analysis
- Groundwater hydraulics
- Surface water exchange
- Seepage analysis
- Contaminant transport
- Groundwater withdrawal impacts
- Subsidence
- Physical modeling
Hazard Analysis and Mitigation
- Flood hazards and mitigation
- Floodplain management
- Debris flow
- Landslides
- Effects of fire-flood-erosion sequence
- Geomorphology and historical floods
- Risk analysis
Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport
- Riverine, lacustrine and estuarine studies
- Desalination discharge analysis
- Thermal discharge analysis
- Intake/outfall sitings
- Cohesive and noncohesive sediment transport
- Effects of dam removal
- Dredging and disposal studies
- Contaminant transport
- Wave analysis
- Coastal studies
- Scour protection
- Stream bank stabilization
Restoration of Natural Systems
- Riparian wetlands
- Coastal marshes
- Stream geomorphology
- Arid region hydrology
- Beach replenishment
Permitting Issues
- Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) allocation and permitting
- National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance studies and policy
Instrumentation and Monitoring
- Climate/meteorology
- Monitoring surface water flows, currents, water-borne constituents
- Monitoring soil moisture
- Groundwater monitoring
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