Water Resource Engineering and Habitat Restoration

We offer wetland and stream restoration and design services that efficiently meet local, state, and federal agency requirements. Our services may include construction management from design implementation to post-construction monitoring; ensuring the future success of the individual projects according to federal monitoring protocols.

We adopt an efficient, multidisciplinary approach to solving wetland and stream mitigation needs by focusing on options that are low-risk, low-cost, durable, and designed to achieve regulatory approval.

Improved stormwater management is an important component of strategic initiatives for many municipalities, and many have developed Sustainable Stormwater Management Plans to counter deteriorating ecosystems. Kleinschmidt has developed green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), or source controls, which is a set of techniques that detain or retain stormwater runoff through capture and controlled release, infiltration into the ground, vegetative uptake and evapotranspiration thereby reducing the need for end-of-pipe stormwater storage and treatment systems.

Our goal is to protect and enhance watersheds by managing stormwater runoff with innovative green stormwater infrastructure, maximizing economic, social, and environmental benefits.

Our recreational design experience includes assisting federal licensees of hydropower projects to meet requirements for providing reasonable public access to project lands and waters for recreation. We assist these and other clients by assessing use and facilities and developing designs to support outdoor recreation management plans.

Our familiarity with regulatory requirements, recreational planning, and permitting allows us to assist our clients in developing new project designs in a timely, efficient manner that meet their needs and those of recreationalists. We focus on designing facilities that are safe to construct and safe to be used by recreationalists, while minimizing long-term operating and maintenance costs.

In recent years, there has been a renewed focus on watershed planning in water resource management. State and federal regulators, as well as many non-governmental organizations, are actively promoting comprehensive planning and local community stewardship as alternatives to regulatory approaches.

We provide planning, engineering, and environmental services to solve land and water resource concerns within a watershed or river basin. These services include smaller assessments that focus on a particular concern, as well as larger, more comprehensive evaluations that seek to balance multiple uses such as flood control, water supply, water quality, species and habitat protection, recreation, and energy production.