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Civil Engineering

Our civil engineers design the infrastructure you depend on—roads, water & wastewater systems, trails, parking lots, and much more. Let’s make your community a great place to live!

Street & Highway Design

The various roads in your community play an important role in how the city functions. Well-designed streets provide efficient transportation systems for vehicles and pedestrians. Widseth’s civil engineers offer the following expertise for street & highway projects.

  • Road layout and design
  • Field surveying
  • Construction staking
  • Hydraulic analysis
  • Wetland mitigation
  • Erosion control plans
  • Permit applications
  • Construction cost estimates

Water Treatment Design

Providing a community with quality drinking water is extremely important. Our civil engineers are well-versed in the supply, treatment, storage, and distribution of potable water resources.

  • Water treatment plant design
  • Water tower design
  • Water lines layout and design
  • Environmental review
  • Soil borings coordination
  • Well pumping coordination

Wastewater Treatment Design

Your wastewater needs to be properly collected and treated to avoid potential health and safety hazards. Our civil engineers will make sure your system is efficient and affordable.

  • Stabilization pond design
  • Wastewater treatment facility upgrades
  • Sludge handling
  • Mechanical wastewater treatment
  • Alternative on-site systems
  • Constructed wetlands

Site Design

Widseth’s civil engineers will work with you to make the most of your site. Good access,  circulation, stormwater management, and utility connections are just some of the vital components of great site design.

  • Hydrologic and hydraulic analysis to prepare runoff studies
  • Detention pond sizing and design
  • Stormwater infiltration analysis
  • Grading and drainage plans
  • Utility plans
  • Parking and frontage road design
  • Landscape plans
  • Feasibility studies

Trail & Sidewalk Design

Trails and sidewalks are essential for safe and accessible pedestrian and bicycle movement within a community. Widseth’s civil engineers design user-friendly, ADA-compliant routes that enhance connectivity, promote active lifestyles, and improve public safety. We offer the following services for trail and sidewalk projects:

  • Route planning and design
  • ADA compliance and accessibility design
  • Surface material selection
  • Grading and drainage solutions
  • Intersection and crossing design
  • Erosion control plans
  • Permit applications
  • Construction cost estimates

Proud City Engineer for 65 Communities

Widseth’s civil engineers act as an extension of your city staff, helping you make strategic, informed decisions about infrastructure and long-term planning. Cities often face challenges like deteriorating roads, outdated utilities, and failing treatment systems—issues that require careful planning and budgeting. Discover the value of a city engineer.

City Engineer Widseth
NEED INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES? OUR CIVIL ENGINEERS CAN HELP.
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Jenny Max
City of Nisswa
Former City Administrator

To have quality utilities like our sewer plant is very important to the health and safety of our residents and our visitors. Widseth helped with not only the engineering but also the funding and financing elements as well which was very helpful to the city.

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