Lake Restoration and Management Services

ERD believes strongly that the key to a successful lake restoration or water quality improvement project is a thorough understanding of the hydrologic and nutrient budgets for the surface water system, including consideration of inputs from internal recycling and resuspension of sediments into the overlying water column. ERD has become well recognized for an ability to perform detailed diagnostic evaluation studies in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Due to an extensive in-house collection of field monitoring equipment, ERD can rapidly and efficiently instrument virtually any inflow for collection of flow data and water quality samples.

Virtually every water quality evaluation performed by ERD involves development of recommendations or management options to either maintain or improve water quality characteristics within the evaluated waterbody. ERD has performed extensive research on virtually every type of structural management options currently in use for treatment of runoff and nutrient loadings into lakes. As a result, ERD has a unique level of expertise for selection of the most appropriate BMPs to achieve a particular water quality goal. Over the years, ERD has learned that water quality improvements can be achieved not only by structural techniques but also through non-structural and regulatory approaches which are designed to control and reduce pollutant inputs. ERD has an unmatched record of successful water quality improvement projects.

The extensive experience of ERD in lake restoration and water quality projects is clearly unmatched by any other consulting firm in the southeastern United States. In fact, very few international consulting firms can match the lake restoration experience of ERD, even considering projects performed in multiple branch offices throughout the world.