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Municipal

Empowering communities to rebuild, revitalize, and thrive.

Metro Consulting Associates (MCA) champions all communities—with a focus on small, rural, and low-income or underinvested districts—in their quest to revitalize, optimize, and modernize their infrastructure for resilience against future challenges.

Our team brings an insider’s perspective to engineer of record duties and water utility operations, applying a holistic methodology that seamlessly blends time-tested methods with cutting-edge innovations. And our track record speaks volumes: we’ve secured over $63 million in municipal funding for our clients, fueling transformative infrastructure and community enhancement projects across Michigan.

MCA’s partnership approach augments your in-house expertise with tailored services, talent, and technology to maximize resources, amplify improvements, and foster long-term prosperity. Together, we’ll build the foundation for a vibrant future that serves all members of your community.

Trusted partners empowering communities to overcome critical obstacles.

  • Aging water infrastructure that is 50 years old or older
  • Flood risks and costs caused by inadequate and outdated infrastructure
  • Limited funding streams to address aging systems
  • Regulatory compliance to deliver safe and affordable drinking water
  • Lean and siloed in-house resources with limited capacity or expertise to manage special projects with day-to-day operations

Engineering Services

  • Infrastructure design and plan preparation for road, water, sewer, and more
  • Land surveying and ROW permitting
  • Emergency utility repair design and coordination
    • Trenchless utility design solutions:
    • Pipe bursting
    • Cured in place pipe (CIPP)
    • Slip lining
  • Horizontal directional drilling (HDD)
  • Capital improvement plans
  • Construction plan review
  • Stormwater management and analysis
  • Sewer and water infrastructure modeling

Asset Management & GIS

  • Infrastructure GIS base map creation
  • Asset management and infrastructure level of service goals
  • Criticality of assets and consequence of failure assessment
  • Web Map GIS development
  • GIS administration and database management
  • Meter and curb stop location mapping
  • Storm sewer and structure mapping
  • Water main and structure mapping
  • Zoning, ownership, and other maps
  • Hydrant mapping (working and non-working)
  • Sanitary sewer and structure mapping
  • Maintenance plans for public works
  • Manhole scanning and inspections

Construction Services

Funding & Financial Management

  • Funding and rate structure methodology
  • Grant research and writing for state and federal applications
  • Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) loan applications
  • Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) loan applications
  • Loan and grant administration and reimbursement assistance
  • Water and sewer rate analysis determination
  • BS&A software customization and training
  • Utility fund collection assessment
  • Department budgeting

Community Development Support

  • Community outreach and education specific to construction projects, water compliance, and more
  • Technical, managerial, and financial (TMF) capacity studies
  • Right-of-way acquisition services
  • Distributed energy site planning and design
  • Department management consulting

Featured Projects

Road Rehabilitation Trio

To appease residents and accommodate time constraints due to the project’s late award, Metro Consulting Associates implemented an innovative two-season construction approach. This optimized efficiency and funding, allowed residents to see the project progress, and fulfilled the City’s promises.

Highland Park Engineer of Record

Since the City’s Engineering Department did not exist for more than a decade, it was critical for return operations to self-sustain and not strain the City’s already depleted general fund. Metro Consulting Associates established a $500,000 annal budget and paired it with a reasonable fee schedule that ensured the City’s adequate representation for right-of-way permitting, site plan reviews, and other capital improvement construction projects.

Water Distribution Asset Management Plan

The municipal team conducted a field investigation to identify and capture locations for hydrants, valves, meter pits, and curb stops. This structural data was imported into a GIS along with the City’s digitized water main lines to facilitate asset management planning.

Let’s work together.

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