Media Type: Innovations
Weatherford’s Innovative Reuse System Wins Texas Water Award
The City of Weatherford picked up a Texas Water Award for its innovative approach in providing an additional water source for the growing community. Congratulations to the project team behind the city’s Indirect Potable Reclaimed Water System.
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Award-Winning Pavement Rehab Project Strengthens Partnership With Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Congratulations to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, which received an American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) Gold award at the Oklahoma Concrete Pavement Conference for the H.E. Bailey Turnpike Dowel Bar Retrofit-Diamond Grind Pavement Rehabilitation. Learn about the team’s unconventional solutions to site-specific challenges along this heavily traveled highway.
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Angling For the Right Pump Room Light
Applying principles of geometry and physics, our electrical team devised specialized solutions for a lighting challenge.
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Bioengineering and Sustainable Tools for Emergency Streambank Repair at Salem Creek
The City of Winston-Salem was able to successfully use bioengineering and a variety of other natural and sustainable tools to restore the Salem Creek stream after emergency erosion, as well as resolve sediment challenges and reduce future erosion issues.
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Hazardous Roadway Overtopping Mitigation (HROM): Managing a Multitude of Road Flood Hazards
After roadway flooding led to multiple deaths in 2018, the City of Fort Worth stepped up its efforts to improve public safety. The City reevaluated priorities for its Stormwater Division and enlisted help from Freese and Nichols to reduce roadway overtopping. Read more about this ACEC Texas award-winning project.
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Boiling Springs: New Ideas For Upgrading Old Dams
Inventive design to help a dam meet higher regulatory requirements produced a cost-effective solution.
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Innovation: Aspire Pflugerville 2040 Plan
The Aspire 2040 Plan is a trailblazer and model for creative community engagement, a healthy community, and it is an APA Texas Comprehensive Planning Award winner. It represents an unconventional means of incorporating health and wellness, including a unique Wellness Wheel as the cornerstone, and is truly a people-centered plan.
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Innovation: Cleburne Zoning Ordinance and Future Land Use Plan
Cleburne’s community-supported project that addressed critical land development issues, supported the community’s desire for quality development and fulfilled the community’s vision for how it wants to develop.
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Oklahoma Mountain Road Upgrades Tackle Tricky Terrain
The unique segment of SH-10 lines the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) land at Fort Gruber as well as Braggs Mountain that would require special considerations for the land stakeholders as well as the terrain.
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Lake Arlington Pump Station Shared Operations Improvements
In Texas, the City of Arlington and the Trinity River Authority entered into a partnership to share, renew and operate an existing raw water pump station. The two different owners operate separate raw water pump stations, on Lake Arlington, that service 600,000 people, are less than 600 feet apart.
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Small Bridge Makes a Big Impact in North Carolina
In November 2020, a storm in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, ripped out three 8.5-foot corrugated metal pipes (CMP) along Woodfield […]
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Fast-Track Pump Station Project Provides Reliable Water Source During Droughts
The Sabine River Pump Station and Pipeline Project replaced an existing pump station that had reached the end of its design life. The project provides a more reliable water source during drought conditions as well as essential water supplies to serve industrial and municipal customers.
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