Rick van Bruggen

About Rick van Bruggen

With over forty years of engineering experience, Richard Van Bruggen, P.E, CFM, PH, D.WRE is an Expert Witness Hydrologist and Water Resources Engineer for the analysis of floods, flooding and floodplains, stormwater and drainage, dams and reservoirs, rivers, streams and storm sewers. He is an expert in, and testifies on, the hydrology of flood events and the hydraulics of storm water, highway drainage or irrigation systems. He investigates floods, roadway vehicle accidents and drownings. President of Water Resources Consulting Services (WRCS) since 1989. Specialties: water resources engineering, hydrology, hydraulics, expert witness

Experience

1. President

   Water Resources Consulting Services, Inc

   Mar 1989 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Civil engineering consulting in the field of surface water resources hydrology and hydraulics. Specializes in the management and modeling of flood control and water supply projects and the hydraulic design of water resoiurces projects. Studies of surface water hydrology and hydraulics, FEMA floodplain investigations, channel and detention basin designs, sediment production and erosion. Extensive litigation support expertise, specializing in forensic investigations of flood events and hydraulic evaluations of drainage systems.

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

  M.S.

  1980 — 1981

• University of California, Los Angeles

  B.S.

  1977 — 1980

Skills

• Water
• Water Engineering
• Hydrology
• Erosion Control
• Water Quality
• Erosion
• Highways
• Water Resources
• Modeling
• Hydraulic Modeling
• Environmental Engineering
• Expert Witness
• Flood Control
• Environmental Awareness
• Drainage
• Hec-Hms
• Road
• Stormwater Management
• Civil Engineering
• Dams
• Water Supply
• Hec-Ras
• Stormwater
• Flood
• Hydraulics
• Remediation
• Sewer