Mussetter Engineering, Inc. (MEI) provides specialized consulting services in water resources engineering, fluvial geomorphology, engineering geomorphology, and environmental hydraulics. Our services include:
- Flood hydrology studies
- Flooding and floodplain studies
- Stream channel restoration plans
- Stream habitat restoration plans
- Endangered species habitat investigations (aquatic and terrestrial)
- Fish passage studies
- Arroyo flooding and stability investigations
- Incised channel analysis
- Urbanization impact analysis
- Sand and gravel mining impact studies
- Alluvial fan investigations
- Landslide/slope stability investigations
- Bridge scour analysis
- Forensic analysis of bridge failure
- Forensic analysis of levee failure
- Reservoir sediment management
- Reservoir re-operation studies
- Flow augmentation impact analysis
- Channel maintenance flow evaluation
- Ordinary high-water determination
- Mine tailings reclamation projects
- Debris flow studies
- Subsidence impact investigations
Our principals and staff use a variety of tools to meet our clients' needs, including state-of-the-art computer hardware and software, and electronic surveying equipment (e.g., total stations and global positioning systems) and sampling equipment. Many of our projects involve complex physical processes that are not properly described by commonly available analytical techniques. We take pride in our ability to appropriately modify existing techniques, or develop new analytical techniques, to meet our clients' needs. Our work routinely involves:
- Open-channel flow analysis using 1- and 2-dimensional computer models
- Sediment transport and computer sediment routing analyses
- Fluvial geomorphology
- Engineering geomorphology
- Development of channel restoration plans
- Stream channel topography and hydrographic surveys
- Bed and bank material sampling
- Bedload and suspended sediment load sampling
- Geologic and geomorphic mapping
- Rainfall/runoff computer modeling
