Sustainable development offers real, lasting solutions that strengthen a community's future, benefit the local environment, use resources efficiently, and enhance quality of life. This development requires a strategic plan that establishes viable goals for maintaining infrastructure assets, highlights competitiveness, promotes public/private partnerships, and fosters creative funding solutions. Concepts like livable cities, urban sustainability, green cities, and smart growth, all focus on balancing environmental values, quality of life, and economic opportunities.
At CDM, we challenge ourselves to take a holistic view of the urban environment. With increased competition for limited water resources and the understanding that these waters often traverse multiple political boundaries, managers and regulators need comprehensive strategies for watershed management. CDM's approach to watershed management considers competition among environmental, wildlife, fisheries, economic, and human needs, as well as the interrelated issues of point and nonpoint source discharges, drainage and flood control, and water supply protection, with the goal of planning and maintaining an environmentally and economically healthy watershed. As part of CDM's interactive stakeholder involvement process, we employ innovative decision support tools, facilitating discussion among stakeholders and building consensus for preferred alternatives.