Our work with municipalities directly impacts the environment and communities where we live and the ecosystems around us. As we develop systems to understand and communicate the outcomes of our work, we also continue to grow and embed sustainable design and planning approaches throughout our practices.
Over the next year, as part of our company’s forward-looking strategy to continually expand our sustainability solutions and commitments, we’ll be reevaluating our strategies and goals. This will include driving the solutions, components and efforts for municipalities that align with providing the most impactful outcomes towards our vision: clean water, safe environment, healthy communities, happy people.
In the meantime, we have compiled some meaningful and material outcomes from some of our municipal business practices:
- By improving treatment, removing contaminants, and replacing aging piping including lead service lines, our Drinking Water teams helped over 120 communities provide access to clean, safe drinking water to a total population of over 13 million people.
- Our Municipal Wastewater teams worked with communities to help them remove over 2.5 billion pounds of pollutants and return over 900 billion gallons of clean water to the environment and reuse systems.
- In 2022, Woodard & Curran’s New England Stormwater Compliance teams have helped over 20 communities reduce stormwater pollution protecting over 2,400 miles of waterways and 14,000 acres of lakes and ponds. Over the last several years, Woodard & Curran has improved the flood resiliency of over 100,000 homes, businesses and public infrastructure assets throughout the United States, representing over $100 billion in real estate assets and critical infrastructure.
- Our Water Recycling teams planned the creation of sustainable water supplies benefiting over 7.5 million consumers and 20,000 acres of prime agricultural lands.
- In 2022, Woodard & Curran helped connect people to the outdoors and improve overall community health by completing the planning, design, and/or construction administration on over 85 acres of parks, green space and athletic facilities including 6 miles of walkways and trails, 10 athletic fields, 2 running tracks and 5 courts.
- Over the last five years, our Fiscal Solutions team has secured over $2.4 billion in grants and low interest loans for our Clients across the United States. This funding has helped our clients plan for and construct over $4 billion in critical infrastructure work.
- In 2022, Woodard & Curran continued to collaborate with water resources stakeholders; over the years they’ve collaborated with hundreds of stakeholders to enhance the sustainability of over 200,000 million acre-feet of critically impacted groundwater resources.
