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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Taylor Associates, Inc. has been in business since 1986 and offers expertise in three core areas:
• Water Quality
• Hydrology
• Fisheries.
In the area of water quality, surface water monitoring is our primary focus
with a specialty in stormwater monitoring. We are considered to be the regional
leader in stormwater monitoring having collected over 6000 samples on over
20 projects. A description of what
makes stormwater monitoring unique is included here.
In the area of hydrology, surface water monitoring, again, is our primary focus. Our expertise in hydrology is integral with our expertise in water quality monitoring since many of our projects require the collection of water samples using automated sampling equipment which is flow triggered and paced. Our flow monitoring also supports calculation of pollutant loads for our water quality projects.
In the area of fisheries, our focus includes both conventional fish survey
and characterization work as well as design of habitat restoration projects.
As an example, in the Duwamish River/Estuary, Taylor Associates, Inc. has
caught over 100,000 fish in more than 500 sets and worked with the City of
Seattle and Port of Seattle to design the Herring’s House and Terminal 105
restoration projects. These projects provide intertidal off channel habitat
for migrating juvenile salmonids.
Project examples for these core areas are broken into five main categories:
• Stormwater/Water Quality
• Hydrology
• Fisheries
• Habitat Restoration
• Watershed Studies.
The fifth category, watershed studies, includes project examples that represent the integration of our expertise from our three core areas and its application to broader watershed-scale issues.
Taylor Associates, Inc. approaches every stormwater monitoring project with these issues in mind. Because stormwater monitoring is a core service area for Taylor Associates Inc., the company culture is developed around addressing these key issues for monitoring success.
Service Examples
Taylor Associates, Inc. provides a variety of field, data management, and data analysis services to our clients that originate from our development and implementation of monitoring programs. Examples of these services include:
• Monitoring Program Design
• Installation or Deployment of
Environmental Monitoring Equipment
• Water Sample Collection and Analysis
• Flow Data Collection and Analysis
• Fisheries Sampling, Assessment, and Analysis
• Habitat Restoration Design
• Watershed Studies.
Product Examples
Taylor Associates, Inc. also provides a variety of written products to our clients that result from our development and implementation of monitoring programs, resource management plans, and field assessments. Examples of these products include:
• Quality Assurance Project Plans
• Water Quality Reports
• Fisheries Reports
• Biological Assessments
• Watershed Assessments.
