Fixing our nation's aging water infrastructure will take effort from the private and public sectors as well as collaborative technology that helps designers and contractors tackle the challenges deferred maintenance causes.

After flooding caused by 2019's Bomb Cyclone, HDR and Eriksen Construction got the Papillion Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility back online in two months.

The largest project in the history of Johnson County, Kan., the $25-million reconstruction of the Tomahawk Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility, remains on schedule despite flooding and COVID-19.

New swales, detention ponds, and hydrodynamic separators were designed and constructed to reduce rainwater runoff to the Huron River.