Working in coastal and environmental services makes one thing very clear very quickly… coastlines are not static. They move, adapt, retreat, and rebuild in ways that are often invisible until the effects become impossible to ignore. By the time erosion, flooding, or habitat loss is obvious to the naked eye, the underlying processes have usually...
Working in coastal and waterway environments makes one thing very clear very quickly: assumptions don’t last long. Conditions shift. Water moves. Sediment settles where it wasn’t yesterday. What looked stable last season may behave very differently today. In this field, reliable data isn’t a convenience. It’s the foundation for every responsible decision that follows. Coastal...
Water is never still, even when it appears calm on the surface. Beneath that surface, complex layers of movement shape shorelines, influence ecosystems, and determine how infrastructure performs over time. After decades of working in coastal and riverine environments across Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, one lesson remains constant: meaningful decisions begin with accurate flow...
ENCOS was contracted by the St. Mary Levee district to install wind sensors and rain gauges on two floodgates in St. Mary Parish, one on Bayou Teche and one on Bayou Chene.
The System Wide Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP) was incorporated by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) as a means of long-term monitoring to meet the needs of the state’s coastal protection and restoration plans.
In August 2015 ENCOS, Inc. (ENCOS) was contracted by Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District (MCHTD) for the installation of two met-ocean measurement systems at the Eugene Island Bar Channel on the lower Atchafalaya River
ENCOS was contracted by the City of Central for the development of a Stream Gauge Network System.
In June of 2022, ENCOS was contracted by the Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana (CPRA) with Freese and Nichols, Inc. to conduct a water bottom assessment located in public seed grounds in Calcasieu Lake.
ENCOS was contracted by Freese and Nichols to provide water level, wave, and current data near Mozambique Point in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
June 2023–Present | ENCOS was contracted by T Baker Smith in the construction and installation of three data