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State Government

Tackle your water, infrastructure and environmental challenges with a partner who puts your goals first. We help you solve complex challenges through resilient design, data-driven planning and regulatory compliance.

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Tom Schoettle

Integrated solutions for the built environment

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Partnering with state agencies to plan, design and deliver water, transportation and environmental infrastructure. We solve complex infrastructure problems by delivering reliable and compliant solutions.

Engineering design

Delivering water, transportation and environmental infrastructure through expert engineering design, regulatory compliance and resilient solutions that meet long-term policy goals.

Regulatory compliance

Helping meet tightening rules and standards while avoiding fines, consent orders and delays. Our experts stay on top of current and future regulations.

Funding support

Optimizing lifecycle costs by improving constructability, helping secure grants and low-interest financing so communities get more value and capacity out of every capital-program dollar.

Resilient, future-ready systems

Incorporating adaptive approaches, redundancy, digital tools and flexible capacity so infrastructure performs under stress and is serviceable for decades.

Featured state government projects

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Lansing, Michigan

Restoring the Kalamazoo River watershed

We’ve spent more than 25 years supporting the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to help clean up a Superfund site contaminated by PCBs.

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New Orleans, Louisiana

Ecosystem restoration for Louisiana’s wetlands

The CDM Smith team and Jean Lafitte National Park and Preserve are working together to restore natural hydrology and protect Louisiana's freshwater wetland ecosystems.

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Columbia, South Carolina

Advancing statewide dam safety in South Carolina

After catastrophic dam failures, South Carolina developed a robust program to map risks, inspect dams and restore safety statewide.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Reviving mobility on I-95 in Philadelphia

For over a decade, PennDOT has been working to redesign one of its busiest highway segments to improve safety, access and community connectivity.

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Serving state agencies offers our teams a remarkable diversity of challenges and opportunities—reminding us that every project is different, but each one provides chance to improve the built environment.

Tom Schoettle, PE, BCEE

Sales Director

With over 30 years of diverse experience in the water and wastewater sector, Tom has played a key role in the development, management and construction of some of the firms most significant environmental infrastructure projects.

Related practices

Climate Resilience

We can no longer rely on the past to prepare for the future. Our teams work across water, transportation, environment and infrastructure to implement right-size solutions backed by climate science.

Program Management

CDM Smith’s program management team is bringing complexity under control by building strong, enduring relationships.

Construction Management

CDM Smith provides full-service construction management solutions across the water, environmental, transportation, energy and facilities industries.

Remediation

We restore environments and protect communities by delivering innovative, science-based solutions that reduce risk and lifecycle costs. Using advanced technologies and adaptive strategies, we help clients achieve resilient, long-term results.

Drinking Water

Whether your goals are to unlock new sources, enhance the quality and reliability of the supplies you have or upgrade the technologies you use, we can help you achieve water supply innovation.

Transportation Planning

Our global transportation planning practice is founded on balanced, integrated and forward-thinking mobility solutions. Leading with a data-driven approach, we deliver hundreds of plans to private and public clients.

Emerging Contaminants

Our engineers and scientists are working tirelessly to solve the world’s most complex contamination challenges. Together, we’ll find solutions to the latest threats to public health.

Water Resources Infrastructure and Resiliency

Forward-thinking water resources planning, design construction and operations means making smarter investments that lower life-cycle costs and provide multiple benefits.

One Water

CDM Smith has been a leader in One Water for more than two decades, developing integrated water resources strategies and advancing projects that enhance our communities and protect the natural World.

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