Engineering Section

OUR MISSION ...is to provide policy, leadership, and direction to ensure that engineering assistance enables customers to conserve, improve, and sustain our natural resources and environment.

OUR VISION ...is to have all NRCS customers applying the highest quality ecosystem-based engineering technology.

Engineering Tools, Staff and Sample Projects  

• Agricultural Waste Management Building Design Handbook - An aide for the design and construction of Timber Frame, Post and Beam Structures.
• CADD Drawings Available Online
• NEW! Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans - Links to Certification Information, Regulations and Planning Tools
• Engineering Forms Available Online
• National Design, Construction and Soil Mechanics Center
• Jimmy Carter Plant Materials Center
  Serving South Carolina, Georgia,  Alabama and parts of Florida and Tennessee 
• Our Staff
• Our Work
• TP-40
  Source of information on Rainfall Data for design purposes.

• The following documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  
  Shoreline Restoration Project at Lake Murray
  
  10 and 20 Digit Hydrologic Unit Code Numbering System for South Carolina, 2005 - A project of USDA-NRCS, U.S. Geological Survey, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, and U.S. Forest Service.  The SC Watershed Boundary Dataset is available at http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

   

Engineering Societies, Associations and Other Government Agencies  

• American Society of Agricultural Engineers
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
• National Frame Builders Association
• National NRCS Engineering Page 
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• US Army Corps of Engineers-Charleston District