The complex web of environmental regulatory requirements can be a high hurdle for many projects. With our guidance, you can smoothly navigate the path to a completed permit checklist.
Water and Environment
The built environment presents our world with many modern challenges. Our talented and innovative engineers, planners, scientists, geologists and support professionals are here to help you with your project’s water and environmental needs. With our knowledge of and relationships with local, state and federal agencies, we can help you navigate the established and emerging regulatory criteria related to your projects.

We provide efficient and sustainable planning, design and permitting solutions that empower your communities, industries and ecosystems to thrive in the built environment. Our team specializes in cutting-edge water and environmental consulting services to help businesses, municipalities and organizations navigate complex risks and challenges. With a team of experienced hydrologists, environmental scientists and engineers, we offer tailored solutions that promote regulatory compliance, resource conservation and long-term environmental stewardship. Whether you need water resource management, environmental impact assessments or regulatory permitting assistance, our expertise helps you make informed decisions that benefit your operations and the environment.
Our comprehensive services include:
- environmental assessments and compliance
- natural resources
- water resources
- water and wastewater systems
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- Environmental compliance
Compliance with the multitude of environmental regulatory programs and requirements is a complex part of completing a project. Hanson’s experienced environmental professionals have assisted numerous clients secure a wide variety of air, solid waste, wastewater, stormwater, water quality and other environmental permits. Find out more.
- Environmental assessment and natural and cultural resources
You want a more sustainable world, and so do we. Our team can help you achieve your sustainability and goals with our decades of combined experience in securing environmental construction permits and managing environmental compliance. Find out more.
- Hydraulic modeling and computational fluid dynamics
Your water structure project deserves smart engineering. With 3D capabilities, we can more clearly see how fluids move, which translates into better design for new and reconstructed hydraulic structures. While designing your project, our hydraulic engineers and specialists can apply computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which offers detailed insights into complex flow behaviors — such as turbulence, free surface flows, plunging flows, hydraulic jumps and multiphase interactions — that are difficult to capture in 1D and 2D models. Find out more.
- Wastewater
Maintaining a properly functioning wastewater collection and treatment system is essential to protecting your community. Our wastewater division’s knowledgeable staff is experienced in all areas of collection and treatment. Find out more.
- Water resources
Water is a precious resource, and we relate to your desire for environmental stewardship. That’s why we do everything possible to help you protect nature while building and serving your community.
With our history of helping government agencies and private entities responsibly manage their water resources, our team focuses our experience, technical knowledge and advanced resources on preserving the planet while delivering the sensible, defensible designs that keep your projects cost effective and on schedule. Find out more.
- Water systems
Water is an essential part of our daily lives. It is a resource we seldom think about until we don’t have it. When you need support with your water supply, our full-service team can address design from a preliminary concept through the close of construction. We can assist with water main replacement up to system modeling, treatment and storage. Find out more.
Do you have a passion for providing communities with quality infrastructure for dependable water services? We have an openings for a water/wastewater specialist in our Harlingen, Texas, office. Click below to explore this exciting opportunity to elevate your career with Hanson!
Hanson’s commitment to our clients reflects our allegiance to our most valued asset — our employee-owners. We invest in you. Find out how you can forge your path with us.