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Municipal Utilities

Modernize your municipal utility with resilient infrastructure, energy-smart upgrades and sustainable water solutions. With CDM Smith, you gain a partner dedicated to enhancing and protecting your community today and for the future.

Kevin Conner

Market Lead

Kevin Conner

Infrastructure certainty in a complex world

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Delivering water solutions, proven construction know-how and operational excellence to tackle growing demands, rising costs, strict regulations, rapid technology changes and the need for resilient infrastructure. 

Full Service Solutions

From planning and funding strategy through design, construction and long-term asset management, our municipal utility clients can turn to us as a single trusted partner. 

Resilient, future-ready systems

Combining flexible capacity, smart technologies and built-in resiliency to create infrastructure that stays strong under pressure and adapts to changing needs for decades.

Integrated infrastructure

Proficiency across water, energy, transportation and facilities means we deliver integrated and resilient solutions to meet growing demands.

Value-driven solutions

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

Trusted by utilities, backed by results

50

number of states we work in

500+

number of local governments we serve

75

years we've supported municipal clients

95%

percent of repeat clients

Featured utility projects

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Detroit skyline at night with colorful lights reflecting on the water's surface.
Detroit, Michigan

Outfall upgrade for the nation’s largest WWTP 

A progressive design-build approach helped Great Lakes Water Authority achieve the wastewater disinfection needed to meet NPDES permit compliance.

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Construction site with excavators and traffic cones on a city street.
Newark, New Jersey

Getting the lead out in Newark 

Newark’s bold response to its public health crisis replaced over 23,000 lead service lines in under three years, protecting residents and restoring trust.

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Workers inspect machinery and pipes inside an industrial biogas facility.
Des Moines, Iowa

Maximizing biogas benefits in Des Moines

Des Moines Wastewater Reclamation Authority (WRA) turned surplus biogas into a renewable energy revenue stream with CDM Smith’s help, producing pipeline-quality renewable natural gas (RNG).

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Seismograph showing red needle recording earthquake waves on graph paper.
Portland, Oregon

Willamette water program sets new bar for resiliency  

A new seismically resilient water treatment plant in Oregon ensures safe drinking water and disaster recovery.

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How do microgrids help water utilities overcome power challenges?

As water and power challenges grow, microgrids offer a resilient solution for utilities, ensuring continuous operation even during grid failures.

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Aligning with our clients, adopting their mission and vision, and anticipating their needs is the highest service we can provide. We live and thrive in the communities that our clients serve. 

Kevin Conner

Sales Director — West Central

Kevin is the sales director for the west central region of the United States, with vast experience in transportation, water, environmental sales and delivery.

Related practices

Architecture

Our architects and engineers deliver quality solutions that master function, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and aesthetics.

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.

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.

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.

Construction

CDM Smith is an integrated design-builder with a legacy of successful projects. We work as one entity to deliver a legendary client experience from project inceptions through design, preconstruction, construction and commissioning.

Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing & Fire Protection (MEP+FP)

We’ve completed hundreds of projects from planning and design to system start-up and commissioning, involving boilers, chillers, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), primary and secondary distribution, substations, power generation, cogeneration and sustainable/renewable energy systems.

Construction Management

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

Program Management

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

Conveyance

Whether you’re concerned about keeping existing water conveyance assets healthy or building new ones, we’re here to help you find the answers you need.

Water Reclamation

Whether your goal is to meet your permit conditions or to build a net-zero facility, we’ll work with you to find the right solutions.

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