Charles Absher, P.E., CFM

Senior Water Resources Engineer
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989

Mr. Absher is a registered professional engineer in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee.  He is also certified by the Georgia Safe Dams Program as an Engineer of Record for civil and hydrologic/hydraulic design.  In addition, Mr. Absher is a Certified Floodplain Manager and is certified as a Level II sediment and erosion control design professional in Georgia.  He has an extensive background in water resource assessments and modeling, floodplain mapping, and hydrologic/hydraulic design.  He is also experienced in the application of Geographic Information System (GIS) platforms to water resource systems planning, analysis, and design.  Hydrologic/hydraulic modeling experience includes the following software platforms:  HEC-1, HEC-2, HEC-6, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, HY-8, DAMBRK, and PeakFQ.

A graduate of Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Mr. Absher has 20+ years of experience in managing stormwater and floodwater related projects.  Mr. Absher has also authored articles and papers, and has managed watershed projects since the late 1990s.  He was involved in some of the first watershed assessments that were completed in Georgia.  His seminal article in Stormwater Magazine in 2002, “Planning a Watershed Assessment,” was one of the first public documents to fully describe the components and tasks of a complete watershed assessment in Georgia.  He has experience with bacterial TMDLs as evidenced by his 2003 article in Stormwater Magazine, “Fecal Coliform TMDL Implementation: A Case Study.”