Bringing proven strategies to navigate complex environmental initiatives in a multi-party, multi-purpose world to reach durable water solutions.
Program and Policy Ingenuity: Senior federal management experience in unpacking complexity and providing a roadmap through implementation.Fluent in Regulatory Compliance: Leading the teams on the most complex Environmental Impact Statements and Endangered Species Act consultations.Proven Track Record: Orchestrating robust multi-faceted plans meeting unprecedented timelines under intense controversy. We deliver every time.
Science FirstDefensible Outcomes
20+ yrsComplex Operations & Policy
Federal, State, LocalBridge Builders
Representative Services
Communities benefit from equitable allocations and increased reliability. Agnecies benefit from transparent, defensible decisions that can withstand scrutiny by interested parties. Environmental organizations can rely on unbiased factual approaches.
Plan Formulation
Trade-off analysis to formulate your objectives, estimate resource needs, and help you through the process to achieve durable outcomes.
Operations Playbooks & Decision Trees
Trade-off Analysis & Structured Decision Making Planning
Modeling Reviews & Scenario Design
Regulatory Compliance
Risk analyses, decision support tools, and strategies for regulatory compliance and agency implementation to support accountability aligned with your objectives.
Consultation Strategy (ESA §7)
NEPA/CEQA Alignment & Comment Strategy
Standards Interpretation & Implementation
Project Management
Translate project needs and regulations into practical steps that create a glide path to implementation including public engagement, interagency coordination, and contracts.
Coordination Frameworks & Charters
Water Contracts
Performance Metrics & Adaptive Management Plans
Stakeholder Alignment & Facilitation
About Us
Our Approach
We start with clear objectives, map the constraints, and design options that can be operationalized. Every recommendation is testable, traceable, and tied to decision thresholds.
Our careers have take the "impossible" and found paths to implementation.
We’ve taken the time to understand local and regional interests across the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
We know system-wide decision spaces, disciplines, and legal-contractual-regulatory policies.
Others bring problems, we innovate to implement solutions in a regulated world.
We come with plans A, B, C, through Z if needed, to manage risks as things change, as they inevitably do.
“Policy without physics and biology fails in practice. Physics and biology without policy fails in court. We bridge both—so operations work in the river and on the record.”
Track Record
Long-Term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project
Delivered on three Endangered Species Act Section 7 consultations, all with National Environmental Policy Act analyses and under accelerated schedules. Each modernized analytical approaches, narrowed actions to core compliance requirements, and increased engagement of interested parties in politically charged environments.
Keswick Dam on the Sacramento River near Redding, California
Central Valley Project Long-Term Operation Governance and Adaptive Management
Instituted long-term scientific foundations now relied upon for regulatory decisions, planning, and restoration investments. Established the norms and practices used across agencies to support weekly operations decisions and annual accountability. Implemented functioning adaptive management; concluding Fall X2 and instituting decision-based criteria for American River Power Bypass. Implemented transparent structures to expand participation while maintaining rapid progress; WIIN Act Meetings, National Academies of Sciences.
Nur Pon Open Space Side Channel on the Sacramento River, near Redding, California
Central Valley Project Improvement Act, Yolo Bypass, and Large-Scale Multi-Benefit Habitat Restoration Programs
Transformed siloed CVPIA programs into coordinated competitive awards with decision support systems maintained by the Science Integration Team. Delivered major multi-benefit actions, including Yolo Bypass Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project.
Refuge Water Supply Program and Water Contracts
Implemented transfers, exchanges, groundwater pumping, and wheeling for one of the largest water blocks in the Central Valley—CVPIA wildlife refuges. Executed complex Colorado River, Water Service, Repayment, extraordinary maintenance, and transfer agreements supporting durable operations and partner certainty.
Fly-off at Gray Lodge Wildlife Area near Gridley, California
Financial Stewardship and Accountability
Managed approximately $150 million annually, 10% of Reclamation’s budget, across three major funding streams (Water and Related Resources, CVP Restoration Fund, CalFed Bay-Delta Fund), aligned with cost share. Achieved near-100% obligation rates through continuing resolutions, shutdowns, shifting priorities, and partner delays. Passed three major federal audits while standardizing reimbursability and reporting (DPIIC annual report).
San Joaquin River Restoration Program
Part of the initial team that provided release of Interim Flows, completion of Restoration Flow Guidelines and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, and establishment of Recapture and Recirculation.
Contact
Let’s discuss your operations, regulatory path, or governance needs. We’re happy to start with a short scoping call when we open our doors in February, 2026.
