River and Stream Restoration News

• May 2010
  
  Bill Norris Celebrates 15 Years of Water Resources Engineering with Inter-Fluve, Inc.
  
  In May 1995 Bill walked into the office of Inter-Fluve, Inc. in Hood River, OR looking for an opportunity to do more of what he loved: hydraulic & hydrologic analyses, field engineering, wetland and stream channel design, and someday…dam removals.
  
  And he got that opportunity.
  
  Fresh out of grad school, with a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Portland State University, Bill knew he wanted to work for Inter-Fluve.
  
  The first time Bill walked in to talk to Inter-Fluve managers he was a little too green, and didn’t get a call back. The second time, two years later, he was less green. Inter-Fluve managers could see some potential in young Mr. Norris, so as luck – and intuition – would have it, Bill was given the chance to show what he could do.
  
  With over 16 years of dedicated work in the field of water resources engineering, Bill is not only great at what he does – with expertise in construction oversight and field engineering, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, stream, river, wetland restoration design and construction to name just a few – he also extends his expertise to others by mentoring and educating the next generation of water resources engineers. The fact that Bill has worked all over the U.S. on hundreds of projects is not too shabby either.
  
  While improving the rivers and streams on our planet, Bill is also busy being a dedicated husband and father of four, and is an avid skier and Lacrosse coach. These are the things we know really make him “Bill.”
  
  Inter-Fluve would like to take this opportunity to give Bill a big *high-five* and say: “Thank you!”  We look forward to a fun, productive, challenging and ever-morphing future with you.  Cheers!
  
  
  
• February 2010
  Inter-Fluve team wins an ACEC 2010 Engineering Excellence Award for the DuPage River & Salt Creek Watershed Analysis project. Read more about this award-winning project in the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois electronic brochure: Engineering Excellence Awards - 2010 Winners.
  
  
• January 2010
  The Chester Creek Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project recieves the American Public Works Association (APWA) Best of the Year: Public Works Environmental Restoration 2009 Award from Alaska Chapter of the APWA. Read more about this award-winning project: Fish Passage and Channel Design - Chester Creek, Alaska.
  
  
  
• January 2010 
  In June 2009, Marty Melchior presented at the 2009 Atlantic White-Cedar Symposium in Greenville, North Carolina, discussing the Eel River Restoration project in his talk, Planning for large scale Atlantic White Cedar Restoration - The Eel River case study.  This project features the planting of 17,000 Atlantic white cedars, and will be the largest AWC restoration ever completed. Marty and teaming partner Keith Underwood presented the project planning process, including seed collection, propagation, nursery, designs and construction plans.
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 Symposium are now available at 2009 Atlantic White Cedar Symposium Online Proceedings. Marty Melchior's talk can be viewed directly at this link: Planning for large scale Atlantic White Cedar Restoration - The Eel River case study
  
  
  
• January 2010
  Project: Culvert Scour Assessment for the USDA Forest Service - San Dimas Technology & Development Center
  
  In 2007, Inter-Fluve assisted the US Forest Service with an assessment of stream simulation type culverts in Oregon.  The goal of the project was to evaluate the structure and geomorphic controls on channels in stream simulation type culverts and to identify the factors that constrain or support the ability of culverts to simulate natural channel functions.  Hydraulic and geomorphic analyses were performed at 17 culvert sites in order to compare stream channel conditions within the culvert to natural stream channel conditions outside the culvert.  This study is used to better inform the future application of stream simulation culvert design.
  
  This study was conducted for the USDA Forest Service - San Dimas Technology & Development Center.  The final report, published by the USDA Forest Service, can be viewed at: http://www.fs.fed.us/eng/pubs/pdf/CulvertScour/
  
  
  
• December 2009
  Project: Red Brook Dam Removal & Stream Restoration, Massachusetts
  Steps in a Long Journey - Dam Removal at Red Brook
  by Warren Winders (RMS Journal, a publication of River Management Society)
  
  
  
• December 2009
  Project: Eel River Restoration, Massachusetts
  Unclogging the Bog
  by Robert Knox (The Boston Globe)
  



• November 2009
  Project: Jordan Creek Restoration, Alaska
  Restoration Project Makes Jordan Creek More Fish Friendly
  by Mary Catharine Martin (Juneau Empire)
  

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