WRIME provides recognized experts and leading practitioners in the field of water resources planning, management, and engineering with special emphasis on groundwater and surface water analysis and modeling. We have provided technical analysis services for regulatory permitting, mediation and litigation support to a wide range of local governments, special districts, and state and federal water agencies. These services span from project definition to certification of environmental documents and procurement of permits.
Our extensive experience in the water industry has taught us that competition for an increasingly scarce water supply, coupled with changing community values and environmental requirements, often makes avoidance of litigation difficult unless early collaborative actions are taken. Our senior staff can work with the stakeholders to identify and resolve conflicts and disputes early in the project by providing unbiased technical analysis. If the disputes cannot be resolved through workgroups or mediation, we can provide expert testimony in a court setting.
WRIME offers the following advantages to its clients:
- Technically sound and legally defensible analysis and results
- Experience with the full range of local, state, and federal regulations and agencies
- Synthesis and presentation of complex technical information in ways understandable to public, stakeholders, managers, attorneys, and judges
Our primary business is water resources consulting and technical analysis services to solve problems and resolve conflicts. This has involved expert analysis and testimony on a variety of water projects in front of a wide array of decision-making bodies, including city councils, county supervisors, boards, commissions, and courts. WRIME team has applied its technical and policy knowledge in situations involving water rights and transfers, water diversions, groundwater basin adjudications, and conjunctive use planning. Our past work and analysis, withstood intense legal scrutiny and peer review.
We stay abreast of policy and legal trends in the water industry, and understand the needs of the legal team for integrating technical materials into administrative hearings, mediations, trial process, consultations or negotiations of settlement agreements.
Our work and its defense are regular features in many CEQA and NEPA proceedings. We are experienced in the technical support of consultation process of the US Army Corp of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Services, and NOAA Fisheries. |
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