Wetlands Erosion Restoration

StreamFix is a small company specializing in stream and wetlands restoration.

Russ Lawrence, P.E., M.Sc., Fluvial Geomorphologist with nearly a thousand hours of formal specialized training in stream restoration and more than a decade of hands-on stream restoration experience started the company in 2000.

Russ's underlying reason for beginning the company is his desire to help people demystify the work of stream restoration. Our small size ensures you will be served by the professional you hire.

Our primary area of operation is mostly the Pacific Northwest, however, we have worked as far east as Wyoming and south into Nevada. With today's transportation and communication systems, please don't let distance keep you from giving us a call.

Our work is carefully designed by well experienced experts using nationally adopted protocols (NRCS National Engineering Handbook, Part 654, Stream Restoration Design, August 2007). All of our design work is performed under the direction of a licensed professional engineer.

We believe stream and wetland problems are always a result of local watershed influences. We strongly believe in having muddy boots. If we have not gone to the field to study local conditions and gather the data, how can we really understand what is going on?

With this in mind our work is based on locally developed data which usually includes, local hydrology, Bank Erosion Hazard Indexing (BEHI), sediment characterization (pebble counts and bar sampling), annual sediment movement (FlowSED and PowerSED modeling based on locally gathered data), local topographic survey, habitat structure inventory and analysis, and riparian vegetation analysis.

We develop and design integrated solutions. Future land use and public safety requires addressing:

• flooding impacts
• bank erosion
• the stream and wetlands present and ultimate hydrology
• geomorphology
• sediment loading
• aquatic habitat needs
• human constraints such as land ownership

Without this broad scale integration of the human, biologic and river or streams needs, the project is not likely to achieve long term success and community support.



"Let your stream and wetland problems be our problem."