SEH, an engineering and architecture professional services firm with five offices in Colorado and Wyoming, added nearly a century of water, wastewater and water resources expertise to its portfolio of services.

Get to know Tracy Ekola, leader of SEH's Wastewater practice center as she talks about the importance of clean water and how all roads led her to a career in engineering.

Minimal revenue sources, private sanitary systems, a potentially polluted riverbed, and two governmental entities in one community had all the makings to put the brakes on an important project that could protect the environment and provide a vital service to the citizens. Despite the challenges, the community banded together to forge a unique partnership that leveraged new funding sources to build new community systems to provide drinking water and to treat wastewater, scheduled for completion this summer.