Water & Environment
Proven Team
- We approach problems and opportunities as a team
- We mobilize the firm’s full resources on behalf of each client
- We include senior leaders from other practice areas to manage related issues
- We work dynamically with our peers to utilize our highest level relationships and to unleash our best technical expertise
- Where many firms’ practices are isolated in “silos,” Carmen Group empowers a team of proven experts with every capability the firm possesses
Our Professionals
Carmen Group’s Water Resources & Environment team combines years of lobbying experience with unique technical expertise in water resource, environment, and local government issues. We have been actively involved in every Water Resources Development Act since 1986, as well as in securing significant federal funding in all of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bills since that time.
Members of our team include:
- Leading lobbyist of major metropolitan sewage districts, urban and rural flood control and water supply districts, environmental protection departments, water conservation districts and major ports
- Former Federal Highway Administrator, civil engineer and community planner
- Former Senior Advisor to Ranking Member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
- Former Legislative Aide to Members of Congress on the House Public Works and Transportation Committee (now known as the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure)
- Former Advisor to the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
MWRD
Federal funding creates 109 miles of deep rock tunnels, reservoirs and pumping stations that provide pollution control, flood relief and a restored Lake Michigan for the people of Chicago.
NAFSMA
National flood risk management policy leadership creates a timely and strong working relationship between two federal agencies that will shape the nation’s first levee safety program.
Washoe County, Nevada
Truckee Meadows Project
Federal commitment to completing the county’s largest multi-purpose water infrastructure project will provide flood protection and ecosystem restoration along the course of the Truckee River.
Napa County Water District
The “Living River” project, which allows the Napa River to recapture its flood plain and create over 700 acres of tidal wetlands, creates a model for the Corps of Engineers by including significant environmental benefits and features in urban flood control.
