The recent issue of California Poly Engineering Advantage, featured MWDG’s Ben Nielsen for his recent success as a river engineer. The article was fueled by the burgeoning, trending, blossoming, and blooming popularity of river surfing, made increasingly possible by MWDG’s engineers, support by our management team at Merrick & Company and visionary clients who believe …
As the WaveShaper is installed in the Chattahoochee, MWDG Engineers Rick McLaughlin and Jack Goble point out an aspect of the Chattahoochee River design that, once completed, will be evident only in what you don’t see…! They are employing a construction technique that insures structural integrity, recreational performance, and high quality aesthetics while greatly reducing the …
“Everyone is happy with this project,” notes Scott Roth, biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Scott coordinates the National Fish Passage Program and National Fish Habitat Partnership Program for USFWS Region 6. “It is a big project at 100 yards across, larger than most we deal with, so we are also glad to …
The Hartland Dam reconstruction project has stirred local enthusiasm for additional recreational accommodation along the Gunnison River. The project objective was to provide fish passage, but the project has also remedied what was an extreme safety hazard to boaters: the dam has been the site of several rafting fatalities. The reach now provides a low hazard …
Emily Jackson, former Freestyle World Champion and member of the 2012 Olympic Whitewater Slalom Team thinks the enhanced feature on the Nantahala River is ‘awesome,’ and her brother Dane, reigning Whitewater Freestyle World Champion in Open Canoe, C1, Squirt and Jr. Men’s Kayak, scored a whopping 1400+ points at the recent NOC Shootout, first in …