Municipalities/Utilities
MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
Municipal water and wastewater consulting, utility master planning and public works engineering support for cities, utility boards and public agencies across the United States.
Public works directors and utility boards need an engineering partner who can develop a long-term partnership, not just deliver a single project. McFadden Engineering is a civil engineering and environmental firm providing municipal water and wastewater consulting, utility master planning and public works engineering support to cities, utility boards and public agencies. As a city water utility engineering consultant, some of our client relationships span decades rather than a single project cycle, including serving as engineer of record and program manager for municipalities that need a partner who understands their systems inside and out.
QUESTIONS CLIENTS SHOULD CONSIDER
If any of these sound familiar, that’s exactly the kind of problem our engineering approach is built to solve.
MUNICIPAL AND UTILITY APPLICATIONS and PROCESS SOLUTIONS
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades
Aging treatment plants often face a combination of capacity constraints, stricter permit limits and rising operating costs. McFadden Engineering evaluates existing treatment plants and engineers upgrades sized to a flow and load.
Drinking Water Treatment and Distribution
Safe, reliable drinking water depends on both treatment and distribution infrastructure performing together. The McFadden team designs and evaluates water treatment processes and the distribution systems that deliver that water to a community, sized for current demand and future growth.
Sanitary Sewer Collection System Rehabilitation
Aging sewer collection systems often suffer from inflow and infiltration, undersized lift stations and deteriorating pipe. McFadden can design systems including new pump stations, force mains and gravity pipe plans to upgrade systems to solve issues as they arise and prevent future issues.
Stormwater and MS4 Compliance
Municipalities operating under an MS4 permit face ongoing stormwater management and reporting obligations. McFadden Engineering designs municipal stormwater infrastructure upgrades and supports the permitting and compliance work that comes with an MS4 program.
Utility Capital Improvement Planning and Funding
Long-term utility investment requires both a capacity roadmap and a funding strategy. McFadden develops phased capital improvement plans for municipal water, sewer and stormwater systems.
MCFADDEN ENGINEERING
ONE PARTNER for MUNICIPAL WATER, WASTEWATER and INFRASTRUCTURE
Municipalities and utility boards often need more than a single project delivered; they need a partner who can serve as engineer of record across years of capital improvements, permitting cycles and system upgrades. McFadden brings municipal water and wastewater consulting, utility infrastructure design, stormwater and floodplain engineering and site development together under one firm, so a city or utility board isn’t coordinating between four separate consultants.
One engineering partner across treatment, infrastructure, stormwater and site development
Long-term program management, not just single-project delivery
Established relationships with state environmental regulatory agencies and other state and federal regulatory agencies
PROVEN PERFORMANCE in MUNICIPAL APPLICATIONS
McFadden Engineering has decades of experience partnering with cities and utility boards.
MUNICIPAL APPLICATIONS
City of Robertsdale — A 30-Year Municipal Partnership
McFadden Engineering has served as the City of Robertsdale, Alabama’s environmental consultant since 1994, and since 2006 has served as program manager and engineering consultant for implementation of the city’s wastewater system improvements. McFadden designed the city’s 1.5-MGD advanced wastewater treatment plant using the Biolac® activated sludge process, capable of discharging more than 95 percent treated effluent, along with the NPDES permit application and a water quality model of Rock Creek built on ADEM’s steady-state modeling standards. The project also included design of four pump stations, force mains and gravity pipe that allowed the city to abandon its main interceptor line and reduce inflow and infiltration (I/I) into the treatment plant.
MUNICIPAL APPLICATIONS
Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) — CMOM Program and GIS Development
McFadden has supported the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) with CMOM (Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance) program development, a compliance framework utilities use to manage and maintain their sewer collection systems, along with field data collection and GIS development to help the utility map and manage its infrastructure.
How Can McFadden Help Your Municipality or Utility?
We offer public-sector engineering expertise to design and permit the water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure your community depends on, and to stay with you as your engineer of record for the long term.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. McFadden regularly responds to municipal RFPs and qualifications packages, and our long-standing relationships reflect the ongoing partnership municipalities and utility boards are evaluating firms for.
Yes. McFadden Engineering has served as a program manager and engineering consultant for multi-year municipal improvement programs.
McFadden regularly steps into ongoing municipal programs, evaluating existing system documentation, permits and capital plans to get up to speed quickly rather than starting from scratch.
Yes. McFadden supports both scales, from smaller municipalities to larger utility systems. McFadden sizes our engagement and team members to fit each client’s system, whether that means a single dedicated engineer of record for a small city or program-level support for a larger utility board.