Our diverse team specializes in nature-based landscapes, stormwater best management practices, and rainwater harvesting, and greywater reuse. We provide direct installation andconstruction guidance totake projects through permitting, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring.
installation
We support project implementation through direct installation and construction guidance. Our team specializes in onsite water reuse design systems, including everything listed in our Holistic Design section, with a unique specialization in... including:
Greywater (Laundry to Landscape; Sinks + Showers)
Rainwater Harvesting + Reuse Systems
Above and Underground Storage Tank Evaluation + Closure
Stormwater Low Impact Design Systems
Constructed Wetlands + Waterways
Irrigated, Reclaimed + Recycled Water Systems
Ecological Planting Methods
Permit Coordination and Compliance
Living Water Features
Educational interactive landscape features
training + Workforce development
Our Headwaters Initiative Program (HIP) is a unique experience offered to individuals wanting hands-on experience and training focused on appropriate and responsible water management practices through regenerative, whole system, community-minded approaches. Through the integration of relationship making, experiential education, mentorship and hard work, HIP provides meaningful opportunities for vocational and personal direction and development.
technical analysis
We provide Integrated technical analysis focused on project sites but connected to watershed, community, and beyond. Our analysis work supports our mission to scale and communicate regenerative practices by providing data-driven information for decision makers and people of all walks of life. Evaluation of the multi-benefits of our design-build work are essential, for example, a typical analysis may seek to answer: how much water savings, habitat-creation, shade and water-quality improvement will a neighborhood turf transformation program provide in a given community?
Our approach typically involves:
1. Program, community, and watershed level opportunities and benefits analysis:
Evaluate the costs and benefits of a variety of implementation scenarios to craft an implementation program.
Determining the likely cost and environmental benefit that would result from a given investment.
Understand how individual actions add up to community resilience.
2. Rapid site assessment:
A method that holistically examines onsite opportunities to build resilience to drought, groundwater depletion, fire, flood and more.
Capture individual sites benefits in a way that easily aggregate to community benefits, like municipal water demand reduction.
3. Civil Engineering for Design/Build Projects:
Water system calculations at the parcel scale
Data driven project selection – identify which project or strategy makes the most sense
Cost/Benefit Analysis and Return on Investment
monitoring
Monitoring is highly context-specific. Our team works with individuals, institutions, and communities to understand the problems they are trying to solve and develop the appropriate approach to understand the baseline conditions and monitor improvement or decline. This may involve:
Soils Infiltration/Percolation Testing
Evaluation of BMP efficacy
Streamflow monitoring
Water use surveys
Irrigation Audits
Water use monitoring
Healthy Soils Assessments and BMPs
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Monitoring