About
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…
Services
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…
Contact
Andrew Bick, PE, CFM Principal Engineer andrew@headwaters-eng.com 828.606.0306
Winter 2019-2020 Stream Restorations
The winter of 2019-20 was busy despite the rainy weather. Four Headwaters Engineering designs have recently been constructed in Western North Carolina. Mitchell Branch through Ray-Cort Park in Burnsville was restored as part of a park renovation and water quality improvement effort. A collapsing…
2.4 Miles of Stream Restoration Completed in Asheville
Restoration of eight tributaries to the French Broad River was completed in July 2019. The streams had been badly damaged from excess stormwater runoff and the six-month effort included several thousand feet of newly constructed channel, installation of dozens of log and stone energy…
Stream and greenway repair in McDowell County
In August 2018, Headwaters worked with McDowell County, NRCS and Suttles Grading and Trucking to stabilize a tributary to Nix Creek that had eroded and undermined a greenway bridge. The solution involved creating a series of boulder steps and pools through the eroding reach…