Litigation Support

Mr. Van Bruggen, President of WRCS, has over thirty years of engineering experience specializing in the use of systems engineering and modeling techniques to define and evaluate surface water resource systems and alternative flood control measures. He has performed hundreds of studies of surface water hydrologic andh hydraulic systems, meteorology, sediment transport and erosion control, and the management and statistical analysis of hydrographic data. For over 25 years now, Mr. Van Bruggen has made use of his extensive experience in water resources engineering by serving as expert witness in the field.

He is a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer and a member of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineering (AAWRE). Each year AAWRE hosts special engineering ethics and expert witness sessions as part of the annual EWRI World Water and Environmental Resources Congress. Mr. Van Bruggen instructed Being an Effective Expert Witness at the 2011 EWRI Congress in Palm Springs, California. The session explored the role of the expert witness in litigation support and trial testimony. The session offered various methods for being a more effective expert, both in dealing with client lawyers and providing more effective and memorable testimony to the judge and jury at trial.

Mr. Van Bruggen instructs Expert Witness Workshop for ASCE                          

He has been the San Francisco Chapter President and a State Board Member of the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA) and has considerable experience testifying as an expert witness, having testified in roughly fifty cases to date, representing both the defense and the plaintiffs at an approximate 50% split. His testimony has ranged from the causes of, and solutions for, real property flooding, channel erosion and sedimentation, to the evaluation of historic flood events, reservoir operations, storm water system designs and drowning occurrences. You can see Mr. Van Bruggen's Curriculum Vitae here.

Please see our Representative Cases listing for specific examples of litigation matters in which he has been retained as an Expert Witness.