About Us
Western Hydrologics (WHC) is a water supply and hydropower consulting company founded by Jeff Meyer and Jared Emery. Jeff and Jared are both professional engineers, registered in California, and have been working together for over 12 years. Combined, they have more than 40 years of water supply and hydropower planning and operations experience. We serve water agencies, irrigation districts, utilities, municipalities, and regulatory and resource agencies to support planning, operations, feasibility, monitoring, compliance, licensing, and permitting,
WHC is a small business located in Auburn, California serving the western United States. WHC often teams with other small businesses or larger consulting firms to compliment our skill set and provide geographic assistance, while allowing us to continue to provide strategic planning and client support services.
Our Experience
WHC specializes in assisting our water supply and hydropower clients develop practical solutions to complex environmental planning, resource management and operational challenges. We have over 40 years of combined experience developing creative, innovative and comprehensive solutions. Our experience includes:
- Water Supply Planning
- Project feasibility
- Environmental compliance
- CEQA and NEPA support
- Hydrology development
- Operations simulation model development
- Hydro-economic modeling
- FERC Licensing Support
- Computer Aided Negotiations
- Operations Forecasting including hydropower scheduling support
- Water rights
- Water transfers
- Stream gaging
- SB 88 Compliance
Our Approach
WHC’s approach to water supply operations and integrated resource planning has always been to represent the technical information, assumptions, instutional/historical background, regulatory integration, and community interests precisely and accurately. This leads to representative and defensible actions. WHC is experienced in the development of computer models designed to address many diverse water resources project types including:
- Water Supply – Evaluation of existing and supplemental water supply through reoperation of existing projects or new minor and major project features.
- Hydropower – Scheduling support, operation, planning, and feasibility evaluation of modified and new projects.
- FERC Licensing – Pre- and post-licensing services including project operational alternative analysis for resource impact evaluation.
- Water Rights – Technical support for water rights strategic planning and state proceedings.
WHC utilizes advanced technologies to understand water supply and hydropower project operations, revenue, hydrology, hydraulics, and environmental concerns, with interdisciplinary studies in economics, water law, and natural resource science to help maneuver through “big picture” water resources project planning, management, compliance and operation.