W. W. Wheeler and Associates, Inc. services

Managing, sustaining, and preserving water supplies in our evolving world among the challenges associated with changing climate, economic realities, and  government regulations demands professionals who understand these issues.  W. W. Wheeler & Associates practices on the cutting edge of these of water resources challenges.  Our services help our clients plan for sustainable future water supplies, evaluate existing water resources,  and provide defensible water rights evaluations, a key to the administration of the prior appropriation doctrine used throughout the arid western United States.

W. W. Wheeler & Associates provides complete life-cycle services for dams including feasibility designs and cost opinions, final designs, construction administration, inspections and field investigations, safety evaluations, risk assessments, training, and operations and maintenance assessments.  Our staff has prepared or evaluated more than 100 dam emergency action plans in 15 different states in the last 10 years.  We routinely perform risk valuations, flood inundation mapping and hazard analyses using either one-dimensional or two-dimensional models. We have also taught numerous dam operations and maintenance and emergency planning classes nationwide for a wide range of audiences.  A proven project management system is used for each assignment that allows us to customize a project team with the specialists needed to meet your specific project needs.

W. W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc. has an extensive portfolio of water conveyance systems. Projects include pipelines, canal/open channel systems, pump stations and hydraulic structures such as energy dissipaters, intake systems, penstocks for hydropower generation for industrial, agricultural, and municipal uses. State-of-the-art computer models and GIS databases are used to perform hydrology and hydraulic engineering analyses. Water hammer analyses are conducted for penstocks and hydraulic modeling of water distribution systems and transmission pipelines. W. W. Wheeler engineers also utilize cutting-edge water balance models for open pit or underground mining applications.