WRCS specializes in the management of flood control and water supply projects involving the hydraulic design of stormwater conveyance and detention facilities and studies of surface water hydrology
and hydraulics, meteorology, sediment and debris production, and water quality. We also have experience in statistical analysis and data management, alternative plan development, and benefit/cost
analysis. We have extensive NPDES Storm Water Quality Program expertise through participation on the California State Storm Water Quality Task Force and its sub-committees.
The Principal Engineer, Mr. Richard Van Bruggen, has over twenty-four years of engineering experience specializing in the use of systems engineering and
modeling techniques to define and evaluate water resource systems and alternatives. He has both a B.S. and M.S. degree from UCLA in Water Resources Engineering and worked for the Los Angeles District
of the Army Corps Of Engineers for four years where he was a Project Manager. As such, he developed and screened alternatives for flood control and other civil and military construction projects and
conducted public workshops for community review. He has also worked as a Project Engineer for two prominent civil engineering consulting firms. He has, most recently, been the owner of WRCS for the
past fifteen years. Mr Van Bruggen is licensed as a Registered Professional Engineer in California (RCE #41202), Nevada (RCE #10324) and Arizona (RCE #27078). Mr. Van Bruggen's resume is available here.
Mr. Van Bruggen has case experience as an expert witness ranging from the Standard of Care for the design of storm drain systems or operation of reservoir systems to the hydraulic factors leading
to a wrongful death by drowning. He has performed hydraulic environmental impact analyses, redefined floodplains and developed storm drain master plans. If the litigation concerns surface water
resources engineering, we have the capabilities.