Rio ASE is a boutique science and engineering firm located in Boise, ID focused exclusively on water resources and river restoration projects within the intermountain west. Our philosophy includes working with the natural environment to achieve practical, long-term, water-resource-related solutions. We founded the company in February of 2016 based on our passion for rivers, the outdoors and solving problems. We’ve applied this passion to projects ranging from geomorphic assessments, to complex hydraulic modeling, to sediment transport analyses, to large-scale river restoration designs. We believe that projects interacting with rivers and floodplains must be based on geomorphic principles that work with the river to ensure effective, long-term solutions that benefit nature, our clie