Technical Service Center —
Client Support and Technical Presentations Office

Technical Reports

The CSTPO offers a full range of services to help you develop your technical reports including:

• Research (R) Reports
• Safety of Dams Reports
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Emergency Action Plans
• Design Standards
• Design Summaries
• Designer's Operating Criteria
• Technical Memoranda
• Software user manuals
• Software programming manuals

CSTPO provides a variety of reports, environmental compliance documents, training manuals in an easy-to-understand format.

Experience and Expertise

Our writers, illustrators, and editors have years of experience writing and editing technical reports and other special documents. The Commissioner's Power O&M Team Report which we played a major role in writing, received the Award of Merit from the Society for Technical Communication.

Document Coordination

Our writer, illustrators, and editors can coordinate the work on your document from the planning stage through to printing and distribution. This includes communicating with you and other team members to develop materials and write, review, revise, and edit your text. We will follow a format you develop or suggest a new one. We can help you integrate material from a variety of disciplines into a cohesive, coherent, and consistent document.

Our staff also can maintain your mailing list and coordinate final distribution.

Recent reports include:

• The Erosion and Sedimentation Manual
• The Restoration of the Salton Sea (pdf)
• Water Reuse Study for Big Bear, California (pdf)
• The Annual Report (pdf) shows a full color photograph covering the entire page for a report cover and frontispiece
• Guidelines for Performing Foundation Investigations for Miscellaneous Structures (pdf)
• Seepage Chemistry Manual (pdf)
• An excerpt from the Transformers: Basics, Maintenance, and Diagnostics study (pdf)

Great Graphics

We comply with Reclamation's Visual Identity Program and supply creative covers and report graphics that get your point across.

• The NEPA handbook cover shows a dramatic use of one color (pdf)
• The TSC Directory (pdf) shows a simple black and white design for a report cover
• The Annual Report (pdf) shows a full color photograph covering the entire page for a report cover and frontispiece
• The Colorado Big Thompson poster (pdf) is a colorful example of merging text and graphics
• See our Poster for the performance of climate models (pdf)
• The cover for Nonlinear Analysis merges photos against a black and white background (pdf)
• The River Workshop cover provides a cascade of photos (pdf)

Desktop Publishing

We provide desktop publishing services and incorporate professional graphics and photos, making the documents we handle attractive and reader-friendly as well as clear and concise.

Samples of our work include:

• The cover (pdf) and executive summary (pdf) for the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project
• The Restoration of the Salton Sea (pdf)
• The Science and Technology Program Highlights (current issues) (pdf of 12/2006)
• The results from the Central Valley Project Land Retirement Demonstration Program (pdf)

 

Call us for all your communication needs:
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Multi-Media | Exhibits | Visitor Centers | Presentations, videos, and speeches | Posters | Kiosk Design | Interactive Education | Meetings | Brochures |Newsletters |Environmental and planning documents | Technical reports | Manuals | Training materials | Web design | CD and PDF Creation