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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) presented the 2019 Most Improved Airport award to Angelina County at their 37th Annual Texas Aviation Conference. This recognition comes from a determined effort by Angelina County to take on an ambitious project. We were successful in assisting the County in accomplishing many aspects of improving their airport. Click here to learn more about ...

The Moline North Slope Wastewater Treatment Plant project received a Project of the Year Award from the American Public Works Association (APWA) of Illinois in the environment category for projects between $25 and $75 million. The award was presented on May 3, 2019, at the 2019 APWA Illinois Chapter Conference in Peoria, Illinois. Click here to learn more about this ...

Meister Cheese Company’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Energy Improvements project received a Best of State Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies in Wisconsin’s Engineering Excellence Awards competition. The award was presented March 22, 2019, at the awards banquet in Kohler, Wisconsin. Click here to learn more about this project.

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Fairhill-MLK Green Ambassador project received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies in Ohio’s Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) competition. The award was presented March 14, 2019, at the annual EEA Awards Luncheon in Columbus, Ohio.  Click here to learn more about this project.

The City of Columbus and Bartholomew County’s People Trail Extension project received an Honor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) in Indiana’s Engineering Excellence Awards competition. The award was presented March 12, 2019, at the ACEC Indiana Awards Luncheon Banquet in Indianapolis.   Click here to learn more about this project.

The Moline North Slope Wastewater Treatment Plant project received a Special Achievement Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Illinois’s Engineering Excellence Awards competition. The award was presented on March 1, 2019, at the 2019 ACEC IL EEA Cirque de Soiree in Chicago. Click here to learn more about this project.

Lockport Well No. 14 Drilling & Iron Filtration Facility project received the American Public Works Association Public Works Project of the Year Award for the environment category, less than $5 million, for the Southwest Branch in Illinois. About the Project: This project included the design of a new iron filtration water treatment facility that began in response to high concentrations ...

The City of Moline, Illinois, and Strand Associates, Inc.® had an afternoon worth celebrating at the North Slope Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) Open House October 2nd, 2018. The project was the largest utility project ever completed in the City and will provide residents and businesses with reliable wastewater treatment service for years to come. Faced with the prospects of building off-site ...

The CSO Long-Term Control Plan for Henderson Water Utility was selected as the Outstanding Overflow Abatement Project Award by the Watershed Committee of the Kentucky-Tennessee Water Environment Association. The award was presented on Tuesday, July 10th at the Kentucky-Tennessee Water Professionals Conference in Nashville, TN. About the Project: The first City in Kentucky to complete a mandated program to drastically reduce ...

Congratulations to Central City Water Treatment Plant for being awarded Water Plant of the Year through Kentucky Water and Wastewater Operators Association (KWWOA)!   The City recently completed a $13.5 million expansion project from 4 MGD to 7 MGD capacity with the assistance from Strand Associates, Inc. and McGhee Engineering, Inc. to accommodate the increase in demand for safe drinking water ...

A true community partnership has lifted the City of Lawrenceburg, IN, to the brink of something exciting and special in its downtown riverfront area. City officials are hopeful a new city park featuring a stage for concerts, expansive green spaces, a splash pad designed for kids and families, and public restrooms will transform a pair of surface parking areas into ...

Announced at the ACEC gala on Friday, March 23, Strand Associates and Wisconsin Department of Transportation were selected as the recipients of the Engineering Excellence Grand Award for the Verona Road (USH 18/151) Stage 1 Reconstruction Project.  This award is given to the top project selected out of the 2018 Best of State winners. “This incredible project highlights both the ...

Yahara Watershed Improvement Network (WINS) recently launched a new video to explain how wastewater treatment plants, municipal stormwater departments, and others are collaborating on a compliance option called “watershed adaptive management” to reduce phosphorus loadings in the Yahara River watershed. This compliance option is available to wastewater treatment plants that meet specific requirements. The Department of Natural Resources allows municipal stormwater permit ...