About Us

Surface Water Solutions is a sole trader engineering consulting business operated by Krey Price. For relevant consulting services, please click here. Biographical summaries for our teaching partners are listed at hydroschool.org.


krey_price_bwportrait_lrKrey Price spent 15 years as a consultant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including the modelling, design, construction, and inspection of levee systems, breakwaters, and dams. Since moving to Australia ten years ago, Krey has worked as an expert consultant for public and industrial clients across Australia, including the development of detailed hydrologic, hydraulic, water quality, and sediment transport models to simulate mine closure pit inflow scenarios and landform erosion over periods of up to 10,000 years. Krey has served as an invited keynote speaker at industry forums; he has presented research and findings at over forty international water conferences and has authored or co-authored over fifty technical papers, including peer-reviewed papers on hydraulic structures, river sedimentation, dam breaching, and stormwater management techniques. Krey’s early career included  programming, code-writing, and compiling sediment transport software to interface with HEC applications. Krey has developed hundreds of HEC-RAS models for worldwide applications and recently supervised a 6-month benchmarking study on over 1,200 model runs comparing HEC-RAS 5.0 to TUFLOW, applying both steady and unsteady flows in 1D, 2D, and coupled 1D/2D models.