America’s aging infrastructure—which, in 2009, the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated would require $2.2 trillion over a five-year period—continues to provide work for environmental contractors through American Recovery and Reinvestment funding.
Specifically, contractors are finding work in assuring the safety and reliability of drinking-water supplies, maintaining compliance with federal and state water- quality regulations and fulfilling mandates to rectify problems with combined and sanitary sewer overflows.