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Portland District

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Hydrologic, Coastal, and River Engineering Section

Aerial view of Yaquina Bay Jetty

What We Do

Our specific functions vary widely, but include the following responsibilities:

  • Perform design investigations and analyses
  • Manage complex multi-disciplined engineering product development
  • Prepare special studies, design reports, manuals, and numeric models
  • Manage A-E contracts and consultants. Lead and manage technical product teams in support of Life Cycle Project Management
  • Provide hydraulic, hydrologic, and coastal engineering modeling and design expertise to a wide range of products
  • Site, design, construct, and install hydrologic data collection stations

Experience and Expertise

The Section offers a broad range of hydraulic and hydrologic engineering and design expertise, coupled with a long history of working with other Corps resources (Waterways Experiment Station, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Coastal Engineering Research Center, Districts, and Divisions). The District maintains multidisciplinary open-end contracts for engineering services.

  • Technical Management
  • Hydrologic Modeling and Analyses
  • Meteorologic Analyses
  • Statistical and Probability Analyses
  • Risk and Uncertainty Evaluations
  • Rainfall - Runoff Analyses
  • Watershed Analyses
  • Streamflow Measurement
  • Sedimentation Studies
  • Water Resources Planning
  • Reservoir System Analyses for flood damage reduction, conservation, flood warning systems, ESA flow issues
  • Real-time Reservoir Operational Studies
  • Steady and Unsteady Flow Analyses
  • 2-D River Modeling for flow distribution, salinity, & sedimentation
  • Channel Morphology
  • Process Based Channel Design
  • Ecosystem/Channel Restoration Floodplain and Floodway Determinations
  • Wave, Tidal, and Shoaling Analyses
  • Dredged Material Management
  • Jetty and Breakwater design
  • Monitoring of Coastal Projects
  • Estuary Circulation Studies
  • Shoreline Protection
  • CADD and GIS
  • Remote Data collection and Transmission, Satellite & Radio
  • Hydrometeorological Stations - design, installation, maintenance, monitoring
  • Stream gages - design, installation, maintenance, monitoring
  • High-water (flood) marks
  • Land and River Surveys; [EDM, GPS, Standard Level]

How to reach us:

Call:
Section Chief at (503) 808-4889

Write:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Portland District
P.O. Box 2946
333 SW First Avenue
Portland OR 97208-2946
ATTN: CENWP-EC-HY

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