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Specialties inside the field

• Water and wastewater treatment

  Designing the plants that make water drinkable and sewage harmless. The oldest and steadiest part of the job.

• Contaminated site cleanup

  Investigating and remediating polluted ground and groundwater, often at old industrial sites.

• Air quality and permitting

  Modeling emissions and getting industrial permits approved. Regulation heavy and well paid.

• Stormwater and flooding

  Managing runoff and flood risk, and growing fast as storms get heavier.

• Solid waste and landfills

  Unglamorous, essential, and consistently in demand in every county in the country.