ESA Opens Santa Cruz Office

12.14.2011

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) announced the opening of a new office in Santa Cruz, California on December 1, 2011. The office is located at 740 Front Street, Suite 345B and will enable ESA to better serve clients throughout the California Central Coast area stretching from San Francisco’s South Bay to San Luis Obispo.

“We understand how important it is to be in close proximity to our clients.” says Patricia Berryhill, Vice President and ESA’s San Francisco Bay Area regional director. “An office in Santa Cruz will ensure we have a local presence and faster response times for clients like Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency, City of Capitola and the County of Santa Cruz.”

ESA has been providing services to clients throughout the area for more than three decades. In 2010 ESA merged with PWA, a California environmental hydrology firm that has been providing flood management and habitat restoration on the San Lorenzo, Pajaro and Carmel Rivers and Elkhorn Slough for more than 25 years. Currently, the combined firm is providing technical assistance and environmental review for the Pajaro Valley Water Basin Management plan update and the Arroyo Grande Interim Sandbar Management Program San Luis Obispo County among others. The office is staffed with environmental hydrologists and planners well-versed in a range of environmental services needed to support public and private projects. The office will be supported by our staff of more than 160 in the San Francisco Bay Area and more than 350 company-wide.

“We have staff that live in the Santa Cruz area and are active in projects up and down the Central coast,” says Bob Battalio, PE, ESA PWA’s Coastal Zone Engineering & Management Leader. “The regional sand management and coastal erosion mitigation planning for the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments and the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation, the monitoring of seawall effects at Pleasure Point for Santa Cruz County, and the climate change sea-level rise analysis we’re doing for the City of Capitola’s General Plan are just a few examples of the many different types of work we’re doing along the Central coast, and will continue to support from our new Santa Cruz office.”

Press Release: ESA Opens Santa Cruz Office