Living Waters Consultants

About Us

  • Living Waters Consultants provides environmentally sound, innovative, and cost-effective solutions.
  • We convert degraded streams, lakes and wetlands into community assets.
  • LWC is a professional and award-winning team of stream engineers, fluvial geomorphologists, hydrologists, and aquatic ecologists.
  • Our Mission is to serve our clients and enable them to achieve their environmental restoration goals.
  • Staff interests include hiking, fishing, canoeing, woodworking, painting and enjoying time with family and friends.

Experience & Awards

  • Restoration engineering for 80 stream projects in 55 watersheds extending over 19 miles in length
  • Planning services for over 24 miles of stream channel
  • Acquisition of over $8.5 M in grant funding for 40 restoration projects
  • Over 19 awards from national, international, and local organizations (ACEC, APWA, ASLA, IAFSM, IAPD, IECA, USEPA, and others)
  • Re-meander engineering services for 4.6 miles of stream channel
  • Lake and pond improvement projects for 18 watersheds
  • Watershed coordinator services including for the Silver Creek Watershed Committee (www.silvercreekwatershed.org)
  • Instruction provided for numerous stream restoration and stormwater BMP workshops, conferences, and online courses
  • LWC provides municipal water resources consulting

Approach

We seek to identify restoration patterns applicable to a project site. We utilize field evaluations, site analysis, and apply past experience in the process. We then strive to implement sustainable approaches and cost-effective patterns where practicable. The goal is often to naturalize, enhance and restore degraded aquatic ecosystems. In the process, degraded systems are frequently converted into community assets.

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Clients

  • Municipalities
  • Park Districts
  • Federal Agencies (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and Others)
  • State Agencies
  • County Agencies and Districts
  • Non-Profit Organizations
  • Homeowners Associations
  • Private Landowners
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Project Benefits

Project Benefits Can Include:

  • Improved aesthetics
  • Recreational opportunity
  • Reduced construction costs
  • Erosion control
  • Improved ecological diversity
  • Grant eligibility
  • Enhanced water quality
  • Flood reduction
  • Infrastructure protection
  • Sustainability
  • Reduced maintenance costs
  • Increased property values
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Our Staff

  • Ted Gray, P.E., CFM, CPESC, M.S.
  • Water Resources Engineer, P.E., M.S.
  • Larry LeDay, B.S.
  • Scott Tomkins, B.S.
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Converting Degraded Streams and Lakes Into Community Assets
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“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”  John 7:38