Restoration Design
Balance Hydrologics provides a diverse set of clients restoration design services from development of conceptual design alternatives, to complete plans, specs and cost estimate packages. We typically support our designs with a strong field presence during construction often providing field engineering support and direction to operators and laborers. Our areas of expertise include channel and floodplain restoration, mitigation wetland creation, fish passage and habitat enhancement, channel bank repair, lagoon enhancement, and dam removal.


Balance Hydrologics has a unique expertise in the design and use of step-pools to stabilize and enhance function of steep stream reaches, and we are experienced in use of many bio-technical design approaches. We offer practical, field condition driven designs, as well as robust technical design analyses, when conditions demand in depth study. Our primary design goal for most projects is to develop features and forms which complement the landscape, and which are reflective of the dominant corridor processes.
Selected Project Summaries
Refugio Creek
Channel and Floodplain Enhancement
City of Hercules, CA
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Arastradero Preserve
Channel Daylighting
City of Palo Alto, CA
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Stevens Creek
Channel and Floodplain Enhancement
City of Cupertino, CA
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Sheehy Creek Restoration
Stream restoration
Napa, CA
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Dublin Ranch
Channel Design
City of Dublin, CA
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