We also have expertise in fields involving the consequences of floods and water intrusion, such as structural damage.  Many of our other experts also perform forensic discovery throughout the U.S. and Canada and can testify in any jurisdiction therein.

Our services range from simple single-item investigations to comprehensive forensic discovery and expert testimony.  Included are:

• Floods, inundations. *

• Levee failures. *

• Intrusions of surface water. *

• Flood damage to buildings. *

• Mud and debris flows.

• Dam failures.

• Effects of burned watersheds on runoff.

• River currents:

  • Drift of bodies - investigations of homicides, suicides, accidents, drowning, etc.

  • Drift of debris, pollution, and oil.

• Frozen lakes and rivers:  transportation delays, ice jams, thin-ice accidents.

• Snow melt.

• Avalanches.

• Water seepage - above or below ground.

• Intrusions of ground water.

• Surface water, ground water, and/or soil pollution or contamination.

• Drought, water shortages.  Illegal / improper use of allocated or rationed water.

• Water rights / water law; ground water overdraft.

• Other issues and aspects.

* including those of New Orleans and along the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, August-September 2005.

Most services are administered by American Weather & Hydrology, LLC.  Some services in California are administered by California Weather & Earth Sciences, LLC.