Waterways Management Services
ELM has an advanced group of environmental professionals that collaborate to manage projects along waterways and has successfully managed waterway projects for a range of clients for over 30 years. These projects have refined our staff’s capabilities to formulate unique approaches to complex problems using strategies that bring stakeholders together and optimize the benefits of actions over the short- term and long-term planning horizons. In particular, ELM’s waterways management approach recognizes that large projects along and within waterways pose a unique set of management challenges. We have a deep understanding of the relationships between stakeholders, regulatory standards, climate, watershed and landscape factors, and project sustainability. To manage these complex projects, ELM’s team of inter-disciplinary professionals uses a combination of scientific methods, technologies, engineering knowledge, socio-economic analysis, and planning tools.
ELM’s integrated approach emphasizes development of conceptual site models that are compatible with the regulatory and state/local planning policies and form a basis for a path forward towards project-specific solutions. Visual presentation of ideas supported by sound science, engineering and the application of technologies is used to engage stakeholders (e.g., local communities to Federal natural resource trustees) in a collaborative process that balances competing interests and leads to a shared vision.