Roger Sutherland Email & Phone Number

Seaside, Oregon, United States

Apparently the registration of WRS that I thought occurred in January 2016 did not happen due to a computer malfunction at the Oregon Secretary of State office. Since the name Water Resource Solutions was no longer available, I established Cascade Water Resources, LLC. So nothing has changed except the name of my company. Been real busy. The name doesn't seem to matter since people just call me with work which is a good thing. I don't have any employees but I do have a few good friends who do work for me on a part time and contract basis. So my resources are limited but I'm still having fun! Please contact me at 503-704-0522 if I can be of service to you.

Portland, Oregon Area

From July 2015 to July 2020, I was an On-Call member of a strong water resources engineering group in Portland with decades of experience that focuses on providing services directly to local clients and supporting other Amec Foster Wheller and then Wood offices in the fields of watershed/stormwater management planning, water quality planning and BMP design, urban hydrology, continuous hydrologic modeling, stormwater pollutant load estimation, BMP and TMDL modeling, riverine hydraulics, stream stabilization and restoration and floodplain mapping.As of January 1, 2011, PWR merged with AMEC Earth and Environmental and joined AMECs Portland OR office. All four of the Principal Engineers (myself, Seth Jelen, Dr. Habib Matin and Phil Pommier) became Principal Engineers with AMEC. Mr. Matin and Mr. Jelen are still employed at Wood which is a british firm that purchased Amec Foster Wheller.

Portland And Lincoln City Oregon Area

Recently established (or I thought I established) a new consulting company to pursue certain opportunities in water resource engineering consulting and implementing solutions to water resource problems. I have been splitting my time between Portland and Lincoln City where I currently own a second home. I hope to cultivate my relationships with Public Works leadership for all of the coastal Oregon communities in addition to my practice that was focused primarily on Portland area and Willamette Valley communities. I'm also maintaining an On-Call employee status with Amec Foster Wheeler or Wood which is a British company that purchased AFW in 2015. These two firms provided me the opportunity to best satisfy my clients needs in the most cost effective and efficient way possible. Please contact me at 503-704-0522 if I can be of service to you.

Pacific Water Resources, Inc. (PWR) is committed to understanding, working with and, enhancing the world of water that surrounds us. We offer this expertise through a dedicated team of five experienced professionals who have worked successfully together for over a decade and offer more than 100 years of combined experience. Our goal is to provide our clients with the highest quality water resources services at the most effective cost. PWR was founded in 1998 and is located in Beaverton, Oregon. We call ourselves water resources engineers, but we are experts in the fields of hydrology, hydraulics, water quality modeling and evaluation, geomorphology, sediment transport, and computer-aided mapping. This experience is evident in our ability to analyze, plan, design and implement cost-effective, practical solutions for our clients.

Decided to leave OTAK, Inc. when Greg Kurahashi (the K in OTAK) started his own company. Several employees mostly water resources engineers decided to go with me to KAI. I was a co-owned of KAI and ran the water resources group which grew from 4 to approximately 7 people over the siz years I was with Greg.

Joined OTAK after I met Greg Kurahashi who was attending a short course on the use of HEC-1 which I was teaching through the University of Portland. I started OTAK's first water resources group which immediately landed several large drainage master plans and managed to win a few flood insurance restudies for FEMA. The group grew to 12 people that were providing over a million dollars of deciated water resources engineering services. I hired Dr. Habib Matin and Seth Jelen while I was employed at OTAK. Both of these gentlemen followed me to KIA in 1993 and became co-owners Pacific Water Resources (PWR). I also met Phil Pommier who joined OTAK a few months after I did. I was able to eventually hire Phil at PWR where he remains a valued senior manager.

Orginially hired by Ron Ott (who later started Ott Water) to work in the Redding CA office. Spent 6 months in Redding before moving to Portland OR to becaome the first water resources engineer in PDX with a speciality in water quality. During this period of time I developed a stormwater quality program fro the USGS out of Reston VA called the Particulate Transport Model (PTM). A few years later Dennis Green helped me code a simplified version of the program called The SIMplified Particualte Transport Model (SIMPTM) which remains today as the most accurate physically based continuous stormwater quality model in the world. The model was recently used to evaluate the potential stormwater quality impacts and mitigations for the construction of the 300 Km long Cross Israel Highway (CIH) just west of Tel Aviv Israel.

Msce & Bsce, Civil Engineering & Water Resources

Activities and Societies: American Water Resources Association (AWRA)Chi Epison

Bsce, Civil Engineering