Media Type: Blog Posts
Nina Reins
The Dillard Wetland Restoration: Reducing Flood Risk and Creating a Healthy Retreat for New Orleans
More than 17 years earlier, this wetland area was significantly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and is still recovering. This hydrologic resiliency project is designed to increase stormwater retention capacity and reestablish healthy wetland vegetation and to provide a retreat from urban life with a variety of community improvements.
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Annie Vest
What to Know About the New Oklahoma Disaster Mitigation Recovery Fund
The Oklahoma Disaster Mitigation and Recovery Matching Fund was created to help counties and municipalities impacted by natural disasters and has recently gone into effect. The fund, developed by Rep. Lonnie Sims, R-Jenks in House Bill 3819, is designed to help appropriate $5 million to aid counties and communities impacted by natural disasters or at risk for future loss in their application for recovery and mitigation project financing. The new fund is an opportunity to match federal grant programs like those from FEMA and others.
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Brian King
Dan Christiansen
Taking Drones to New Heights for Your Projects
Learn how drones can improve your project documentation, inspection, emergency management and more – and save you time and money.
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Wendy Shabay Bonneau
What to Know as You Grow
City leaders: Feeling growing pains in your community? Here’s timely advice for managing growth by planning for it together with your constituents.
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Jessica Brown
Compliance Window Closing for Submitting Water Emergency Preparedness Plans to TCEQ
Missed the SB 3 March deadline? Learn how Freese and Nichols can help you catch up.
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Brandon Huxford
The Art of Public Involvement
As practitioners, we know that federally funded projects mandate public involvement. Instead of just “checking the box” when it comes […]
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What’s Next for Water Emergency Preparedness Plans
As Texas water utilities move from submitting their emergency preparedness plans to TCEQ into the implementation phase, here are important tips that can help with compliance.
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Mark Evans
USDOT Becomes First to Make Funds Available from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
The USDOT has become the first agency to release funds from the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to local governments, counties, states, authorities, districts, and others. The program improves upon the RAISE grant program with some additional goals for efficiency, equity and climate resilience.
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Trey Shanks
Learn Best Practices for Infrastructure Asset Management During Five-Day Course
Professionals in the water, transportation and energy fields can learn techniques for planning, decision-making and budgeting to get the most out of their system’s infrastructure.
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Daniel Harrison
Stan Lynch
How Counties Can Manage Shifting Responsibilities for Growth and Services
As counties find themselves shouldering more responsibility for the road, drainage and public safety needs of new developments, county leaders need to prepare for increasing demands on their resources. Learn more about how to manage growth.
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Mark Evans
Upcoming Deadlines for Texas Water Development Board Funding Opportunities
Three Texas programs are currently accepting funding applications for water and related projects.
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Dustin Pope
Six Harris County Groundbreakings
Six drainage projects for Harris County Precinct 2 held groundbreaking ceremonies in late 2021. These are the first of 17 projects that Freese and Nichols is providing services for under the $2.5 billion bond package approved by voters in 2018.
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