About Us
Pacific Water Management LLC
Pacific Water Management (PWM) specializes in consulting on all aspects of western water projects. At PWM we are equipped to discover solutions to problems no matter where they may occur; from the highest peaks to the most breath-taking ocean vistas and everywhere in between.
Evan Buckland
CEO and Senior Hydrologist
Founder and CEO, Evan Buckland, has spent a career studying water and geomorphology internationally from Peru, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and British Columbia as well as covering all of California's diverse landscape.
Evan is an accomplished hydrologist with over 18 years of experience in the fields of hydrology and geomorphology as well as water management. During his career, Evan studied various river systems throughout Northern California and the Bay Delta with a focus on analyzing and enhancing hydrologic and geomorphic processes of watersheds impacted by agricultural and urban development. Evan specializes in performing hydraulic and hydrologic analyses, water quality modeling, systems modeling, long term water supply planning and employing standard field techniques.
Evan’s experience includes:
Projects
- Rubber Dam 3 Fish Ladder
- Rubber Dam 1 Fish Ladder
- Bunting Pond Fish Screen
- Kaiser Pond Fish Screen
- Shinn Gravity Rediversion Pipeline
- Alameda Creek Telemetry Project
- Skeena River Ecogeomorphology Assessment
- McCloud River Gaging Project
- Shasta River Gaging Project
- Daily Operations of Groundwater Recharge Facilities
- Groundwater Recharge Facilities Database Development
Contracts
- State Water Project contract management
- San Francisco Public Utilities Commission contract management
- Semitropic Water Storage District contract management
- State Resources Water Control Board water rights management
- Compliance report preparation and filing
Grants
- Rubber Dam 3 Fish Ladder
- California Natural Resources Agency - $3M
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - $500K
- State of California Coastal Conservancy - $825K
- United States Bureau of Reclamation - $750K
- Rubber Dam 1 and Flood Control Drop Structure Fish Ladder
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife - $2.5M
- California Wildlife Conservation Board - $5.36M
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - $500K
- Shinn Pond Fish Screen
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife - $2.95M
- Bunting Pond Fish Screen
- California Department of Water Resources - $600K
Studies
- Alameda Creek seepage study
- Forecast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO) of Lake del Valle
- Cosumnes river flood plain restoration study
- Mokelumne river gravel augmentation study
- Trinity river gravel augmentation study
- Endangered Species Act section 7 consultation for Alameda creek central coast steelhead
- Regional development of central California coast recovery plan with National Marine Fisheries Service
- Alameda creek HMS rainfall runoff model development
- Alameda creek HEC RAS hydraulic and water temperature model development
- Shasta river water temperature studies
- Shasta river hydrologic baseline assessment
- Bear creek restoration geomorphology assessment
- American Climber Science program high altitude Peruvian glacial carbon deposition assessment
- High altitude Himalayan carbon deposition assessment
- 1600 operational agreements with California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Member of Alameda creek fisheries work group hydrology committee
- Zone 7/ ACWD water rights settlement agreement
- Rubber dam 3 dissolved oxygen depletion event
Selected Publications
- Dhakal, Buckland, McBain, (2012). Overview of Methods, Models, and Results to Develop Unimpaired, Impaired, and Future Flow and Temperature Estimates Along Lower Alameda Creek for Hydrologic Years 1996 – 2009. Prepared for the Alameda Creek Fisheries Workgroup http://www.alamedacreek.org/reports-educational/pdf/McBain%20&%20Trush%202012.pdf
- Buckland, Evan, (2010). Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel Anadromous Fish Passage Assessment
- Buckland, Evan, (2009), Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel October 2008 Dissolved Oxygen Depletion Event. Prepared for the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board
- Jeffres, Buckland, Hammock, Kiernan, King, Kringbaum, Nichols, Null, (2007). Baseline Assessment of Salmonid Habitat and Aquatic Ecology of the Nelson Ranch, Shasta River, California Water year 2007. Prepared for United States Bureau of Reclamation Klamath area office https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/pdf/Jeffres-Shasta-2008.pdf
- Niswonger, Prudic, Fogg, Stonestrom, Buckland, (2007). Method for Estimating Spatially-Variable Seepage Loss and Hydraulic Conductivity in Intermittent and Ephemeral Streams. Water Resources Research https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2007WR006626
- Pasternack, Gilbert, Wheaton, Buckland, (2006). Error Propagation for Velocity and Shear Stress Prediction Using 2D Models for Environmental Management. Journal of Hydrology, 328(1-2), 227-24 https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/703131
- Buckland (2004). The Effects of Geomorphology and Water Shed Land Use on Spawning Habitat. Center for Water Shed Sciences https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/education/classes/files/content/flogs/EMBuckland.pdf