Insights & News

March 2, 2016

Dewberry's real-time hydrologic operations model to improve resilience during droughts and floods.

October 1, 2015

Located just southeast of Denver, the town of Parker, Colorado, is home to the Parker Water and Sanitation District's (PWSD's) new Rueter-Hess Water Purification Facility (RHWPF) – a drinking water treatment plant that may change how communities across the country think about producing a…

September 24, 2015

Recently, we helped to organize a workshop, hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Institute for Water Resources (IWR), in order to explore new ways of improving coastal resource projects. The focus of the workshop centered on improving cross-industry collaboration between landscape…

July 9, 2015

As of this June, I have been with Dewberry for a full year as a senior project manager with our water service line. I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on my anniversary with some thoughts on past innovations, and how I hope to expand our practice in the future.

May 7, 2015

This past March I had the opportunity to return to my hometown of Udaipur, India, located in the western portion of the country within the state of Rajasthan. I spent the better part of my childhood around three of the city's five manmade lakes (built more than 400 to 600 years ago by the feudal…

March 26, 2015

Water is the artery of life and everyday routines evaporate in its absence. The power of this statement becomes absolutely clear when communities are forced to suddenly live in a post-disaster environment.

February 5, 2015

At the turn of the 21st century, nearly 50 percent of Virginia's population lived outside urban areas, typically within communities of fewer than 10,000 people. These rural communities lived on 95 percent of the state's land, meaning that a small number of people have been responsible for…

December 11, 2014

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a competitive grant program for projects aimed at increasing the resilience of public transportation systems against future disasters. FTA set aside nearly $3.6 billion for this competitive resilience grant…

October 23, 2014

Around this time last year, we were just recuperating from the 2013 Colorado floods. The five-day natural disaster forced more than 11,000 evacuations and damaged more than 19,000 homes. In support of the Colorado Flood Threat Bulletin (FTB), a daily forecasting tool, we used Twitter to broadcast…

July 22, 2014

Observations from the June 26 Making The Grade Symposium at the National Press Club revolving around a six-point plan to solve the failing state of U.S. infrastructure.

July 10, 2014

New Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection regulations that may impact local wastewater collection.

April 16, 2014

It's a very exciting time on an uninhabited stretch of coastal marshland approximately two-and-a-half miles from Louisiana's Jefferson Canal landing near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Two years ago, this land didn't exist. What was once open water is now soil and grass populated by nesting…