Headwaters Engineering provides a range of ecosystem restoration and water resources design and consulting services in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Over the past three decades, Principal Engineer Andrew Bick has designed over 40 miles of stream restoration, overseen several dam removals, completed…
Headwaters Engineering is a specialty engineering firm offering design and consulting services for stream restoration, river bank stabilization, shoreline restoration, FEMA flood studies and stormwater quality improvements. Located in the mountains of western North Carolina, we serve clients throughout the southern Appalachian region. Please…
Andrew Bick, PE, CFM Principal Engineer andrew@headwaters-eng.com 828.606.0306
The Town of Black Mountain recently completed a 2,000 linear foot enhancement project on the Swannanoa River through their park in eastern Buncombe County. Headwaters’ design focused on five work areas where bank erosion was threatening park facilities on the south bank and a…
Using FEMA disaster assistance funding, Yancey County has completed repairs to a 400 linear foot reach of the Cane River at the county’s Cane River Park. Flooding during Hurricanes Florence and Michael in the Fall of 2018 eroded the river bank, formed a large…
Headwaters Engineering worked with a group of volunteers to stabilize bank erosion along the French Broad River that was threatening the Camp Stephens Boy Scout Troop 26 building. Work was completed in March 2020 and the bioengineering treatments are already well established.