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Integrated Water Planning in Action: Cleburne Builds for Growth and Resilience

Cleburne’s award-winning Integrated Water Plan safeguards the city’s future with an innovative, cost-effective recycling system that boosts capacity, conserves resources, and models One Water principles in action.

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Cleburne’s Integrated Water Program Wins ENR Best Project Award

The City of Cleburne earned Engineering News-Record Texas & Louisiana’s 2025 Best Project award in the Water/Environment category for its Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion and Indirect Reuse Program. The honor recognizes the City’s leadership in sustainable water innovation and long-term resource planning.

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David Jackson
Viraj deSilva

How Water Systems Can Navigate the Uncertain PFAS Regulatory Landscape

Even with litigation and government shutdown turmoil, water systems remain bound by new federal PFAS limits and compliance deadlines put forth in 2024 unless other definitive direction emerges.

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Program Management in Action: Building Resilient Water Supplies

For some of their most ambitious water supply programs, utilities are partnering with Freese and Nichols on a program management approach to transform complex challenges into resilient, long-term solutions that strengthen communities and infrastructure alike.

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Stephenson Park Receives ASLA Oklahoma’s Highest Honor

Stephenson Park in Edmond earned the Oklahoma ASLA Award of Excellence, the highest honor the organization gives. The project was recognized for its thoughtful blend of historic preservation, sustainable design and community engagement, showcasing how visionary landscape architecture can honor the past while enriching the future.

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Lockhart Plans for a More Resilient Future

Facing rapid regional growth, the City of Lockhart, Texas, created a resilience-focused comprehensive plan that integrated hazard mitigation and community well-being, earning the City a 2025 Texas Planning Award from APA Texas.

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Integrated Planning for Midwest City’s Future

Midwest City is shaping its future through three coordinated planning efforts: a Wastewater Master Plan, a Stormwater Master Plan and a Comprehensive Plan. This integrated effort represents the wave of the future in water planning, addressing infrastructure, resilience, and growth together to build a stronger, more connected community.

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Tackling Failing Storm Drainpipes: How to Reduce Risk and Disruption

Learn how recent advances in pipe condition assessment and trenchless rehabilitation is helping cities assess and repair failing storm drainpipes faster, safer and more efficiently. Join us for a webinar on November 17, 2025, to get more information on how to optimize your stormwater investments.

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Video: Brownsville Tones Down Billboard Brightness For Safer Driving

Through hands-on demonstrations, Freese and Nichols helped city officials understand the complexities of lighting standards to make adjustments for community safety.

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Stormwater Regulation in North Carolina: A Guide to MS4 and Beyond

North Carolina’s stormwater permitting combines federal mandates, state rules like MS4, and watershed-specific criteria to protect surface waters. This article summarizes the regulations and permitting requirements that are most important for municipal, construction and industrial stakeholders.

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Delivering Higher Education Projects Through Program Management

Colleges and universities face complex challenges when delivering campus projects. With the right program management, institutions gain confidence that facilities will be delivered on time, on budget and aligned with student needs.

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Planning the Future of Higher Education Campuses

To help colleges and universities meet changing demands from students and communities, Freese and Nichols is providing planning and program management to support growth and student success.

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JaNette Bridgewater

How Strategic Planning Builds Employee Confidence and Trust

Companies can thrive by supporting individual as well as collective goals with purposeful continuous learning and career growth woven into firmwide strategy. See what Freese and Nichols employees say about “How We Plan.”

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We’ve found that our focus on quality and continuous improvement provides a natural incubator for innovation. Our level of innovation in our project work, client programs and internal processes helps our clients solve their business needs. We see the impact of these innovative techniques through our high client satisfaction scores, repeat business, and our many project awards.

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