Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (NHC) is a consulting engineering firm focused exclusively in the area of water resources. We are proudly celebrating our 50th year providing these services to a variety of public and private clients. NHC is an employee-owned firm made up of dedicated engineers and geoscientists who specialize in hydraulic and hydrologic engineering, water resource engineering, river engineering, sedimentation engineering, coastal engineering, fluvial morphology, aquatic habitat restoration, and numerical and physical modeling.
NHC’s California offices are in Sacramento, South Lake Tahoe, and Pasadena. NHC’s North American offices are in Seattle, Olympia, and Bellingham, Washington; North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Squamish, and Kamloops, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Montreal, Quebec; and international offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our staff includes approximately 150 water resources and design specialists, and a total staff of 230.
NHC opened our first California office in 1994 and has applied our technical expertise in understanding physical processes in both natural and man-made settings to assist in protecting and restoring natural functions in watersheds, rivers, creeks, floodplains, wetlands, and coastal regions. NHC’s specialists work closely with teams of other professionals, in conjunctions with landowners and regulatory agencies, to develop flood and sediment
management, water management, hydropower, water supply, and fish passage restoration projects from conceptual alternatives to fully implemented designs. NHC provides unique hydrologic and hydraulic services to support multi-discipline design projects through our expertise in multi-dimensional numerical modeling (CFD), hydraulic transient analysis, and physical hydraulic modeling capabilities through our four full-service laboratories.
Example of recent projects shown in the photos above include CFD modeling of the Oroville Dam spillway repair alternatives for California DWR; field data collection on the Pajaro River to support our ongoing flood management work with Santa Cruz County; and physical modeling of the Arroyo Trabuco fish passage project near San Juan Capistrano for Trout Unlimited.
For more information on NHC, visit our website at www.nhcweb.com
Contact:
Brady McDaniel, P.E.
Principal/Branch Manager
bmcdaniel@nhcweb.com
