Safe and Efficient Water Resource Solutions

Excessive stormwater can negatively impact local ecologies and waterways. Otak’s goal is to combat these negative effects to reduce flooding, to improve water quality, and to enhance infrastructure’s future resilience. Using sustainable low-impact development techniques that imitate natural water management, we improve built and natural environments. We also design facilities for the safe passage of stormwater, by planning implementing, and managing construction, and by applying stormwater strategies.

Floodplains are vital to plan for and identify. By analyzing a variety of floodplains (100-year floodplains and regulatory floodways), Otak helps vulnerable communities within special flood hazard areas (SFHAs) plan for future flooding and reduce flood insurance costs. We help communities build greater resilience to flooding, build out of floodplains, and give existing communities an accurate risk assessment relative to their floodplain proximity.

Hydraulic engineering plays a critical role in the design and functionality of bridges, dams, levees, and canals. Otak’s hydraulic engineering provides uniform procedures for implementing and assuring dependable drainage design. Using fluid dynamics theory to predict how flowing water interacts with its surroundings, our hydraulic engineering stores and controls the movement of large amounts of water, diverting or removing water from roadways and pass beneath them.