Buck Engineering, PC
Corporate Office:
8000 Regency Parkway,
Phone: 919-463-5488
Fax: 919-463-5490
Branch Office:
Phone: 704-334-4454
Fax: 704-334-4492
Branch Office:
Phone: 404-653-0182
Fax: 404-653-0186
Web Site: www.buckengineering.com
GSA Contract Number: GS-10F-0469M, SIN 899-1, SIN 899-3, SIN 899-7
Buck Engineering is a
veteran-owned small business that specializes in stream restoration using
natural channel design techniques, watershed assessment and management, and
planning. Our team of engineers,
hydrologists, biologists, and planners has the background and experience to
address a wide variety of technical challenges under the federal Clean Water
Act. We offer services in stream and
wetland restoration, planning and design, best management practices,
monitoring, training, and research. Our
clients include federal, state, and local governments, citizen organizations,
American Indian tribes, and private landowners.
SIN 899-1: Environmental Planning Services and
Documentation
Buck Engineering offers
expertise in preparing NEPA documents.
Members of our staff have managed or completed numerous EIS s, EA s, FONSI s,
CE s. We have many years of NEPA
experience and have worked closely with federal agencies including Federal
Highway Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and
Our NEPA expertise includes
developing purpose and need, identifying and developing reasonable
alternatives, and evaluating environmental consequences for the proposed
action. We are experienced in evaluating
environmental consequences for a wide range of issues affecting the human and
natural environment.
Our environmental planning
services also include stream and wetland compensatory mitigation and stream
restoration us using natural channel design.
Buck Engineering biologists and engineers have performed numerous
existing condition, reference reach and gage station surveys, and assessed over
200,000 feet of streams and rivers. We
are leaders in natural channel design and have designed and managed
construction on over 60,000 feet of stream restoration and over 100 acres of
wetland restoration in the Southeast.
Buck Engineering staff can design and implement restoration projects for
agencies and help them secure compensatory mitigation credits. Our ecosystem approach to environmental
restoration results in effective long-term self-sustaining restoration of
impaired riparian systems.
SIN 899-3: Environmental/Occupational Training
Services
Buck Engineering uses a
multidisciplinary approach to teaching fundamentals and applications of
hydrologic, engineering, and biological principles. Our stream hydrology and restoration training
courses are designed to provide practitioners with essential tools for
assessing stream channel conditions and developing sound natural channel
designs. We have taught courses for
resource agency staff, Departments of Transportation, consultants, watershed
associations, and municipal governments.
The workshops listed below include extensive hands-on and boots-in
field application sessions to reinforce classroom sessions. Additional training courses can be
individually tailored to meet an agency s specific learning objectives.
Fundamentals and
Applications of Hydrology and Geomorphology - This 2-day workshop provides a basic understanding of hydrology and
geomorphology for natural resource practitioners. Participants learn about watershed processes
and delineation, basic hydrologic relationships including the continuity
equation and Mannings equation, applications of
hydrographs, and basic surveying principles for application in stream
measurements. Geomorphology topics include watershed drainage patterns,
landforms, valley types, sedimentary rock classification, stream channel
evolution, sediment characteristics and transport processes, and channel
forming flows. Field activities include
techniques for measuring stream discharge and classifying valley and stream
sediments.
Introduction to Stream
Classification and Assessment - This
4-day workshop introduces concepts of fluvial geomorphology to be applied in
assessing stream channel condition. Workshop participants learn about channel
forming processes, bankfull identification, and the Rosgen
classification system for natural streams applied to
Stream Restoration Using
Natural Channel Design Techniques -
This 4-day workshop teaches participants to apply geomorphic and hydraulic
concepts to develop stream restoration plans.
Workshop participants learn about restoration options for incised
streams, reference stream analyses, and design principles. Field exercises include reference stream
surveys and natural channel design development for an impaired stream.
Participants work through the natural channel design process and visit several
recent restoration projects.
Biomonitoring Techniques for Stream Restoration Evaluation &
Watershed Monitoring - This 2-day
workshop teaches participants to how to collect and field identify benthic macroinvertebrates for stream restoration projects or
watershed biomonitoring programs. Instructors use
classroom presentations and field exercises to teach current protocols
(Standard and Qual-5) developed by
Advanced Natural Channel
Design Techniques: Flood Studies & Sediment Transport - This 2-day workshop requires a basic understanding
of natural channel design techniques for stream restoration. On the first day,
participants learn to apply the HEC-RAS model to evaluate flood stage changes
of restoration design using actual case studies. Participants are required to
bring a laptop computer to the workshop. On the second day, participants learn
various techniques for evaluating sediment transport changes associated with
stream restoration designs. Field exercises are used to reinforce presentations
on sediment sampling and data collection. Participants are required to have a
thorough understanding of hydrology and geomorphology.
SIN 899-7: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Buck Engineering offers
clients expertise in the development and application of desktop geographic
information systems. Our staff has
experience designing GIS s custom-tailored to agency needs, mapping project
information, using global positioning systems and survey data to develop new coverages, analyzing coverages
for pollution source identification and natural resource planning, and applying
water quality models with GIS. We have
used GIS extensively in all aspects of our work.
Buck Engineering staff works
with both ArcView 3.2 and the new ArcView
8, and can provide data to agencies in either format.
GSA Price Information
|
Labor Category Name |
Hourly Rate |
|
SIN 899-1 |
|
|
Principal Engineer |
$130.79 |
|
Principal Hydrologist |
$110.22 |
|
Project Manager |
$83.24 |
|
Civil Engineer |
$93.14 |
|
Environmental Engineer |
$67.52 |
|
Agricultural Engineer |
$63.22 |
|
Hydrologist |
$68.90 |
|
Wetland Specialist |
$55.27 |
|
Senior Biologist |
$70.27 |
|
Biologist |
$44.58 |
|
Water Quality Specialist |
$78.87 |
|
Stream Restoration Engineer |
$75.80 |
|
Stream Restoration
Technician |
$43.79 |
|
Geologist/Geomorphologist |
$110.22 |
|
Socioeconomic Analyst |
$68.90 |
|
Graphic Operator |
$51.24 |
|
CADD Technician |
$45.09 |
|
Clerical |
$38.69 |
|
Archaeologist |
$48.97 |
|
Historic Architect |
$69.83 |
|
|
|
|
SIN 899-7 |
|
|
Senior GIS Analyst |
$99.53 |
|
GIS Analyst |
$78.87 |
|
GIS Technician |
$47.69 |
|
Course Name/Description |
Course Price |
Length (days) |
Minimum Participants |
Maximum Participants |
|
SIN 899-3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Fundamentals
and Applications of Hydrology and Geomorphology |
$3,591.00 |
2 |
15 |
40 |
|
Introduction
to Stream Classification and Assessment |
$7,401.95 |
4 |
15 |
40 |
|
Stream
Restoration Using Natural Channel Design Techniques |
$7,401.95 |
4 |
15 |
40 |
|
Biomonitoring Techniques for Stream Restoration Evaluation & Watershed
Monitoring |
$3,591.00 |
2 |
15 |
40 |
|
Advanced
Natural Channel Design Techniques: Flood Studies & Sediment Transport |
$5,260.07 |
2 |
15 |
40 |