Streets, utilities, stormwater, and the funding to pay for them - engineering for villages, towns, and cities that measure projects in budgets, not billboards.
Most Wisconsin communities do not keep an engineer on staff - they keep an engineer on call. Since 2010, Lynch & Associates has filled that role across southeastern Wisconsin: as retained engineer for towns like the Town of Linn, as the long-term engineering partner behind a decade of work in the Village of East Troy, and as the project engineer communities hire street by street, pipe by pipe. Our municipal engineering practice now spans more than 3,700 completed projects.
The scope covers what public works actually needs: street reconstruction and pavement rehabilitation, water main and sanitary sewer replacement, stormwater and drainage systems, culverts and small structures, development review, special assessment support, and construction management with our own inspectors. Led by co-founder Tim Lynch, P.E. - nearly 30 years serving municipalities and utility districts, from sewer studies and lift stations to expert witness testimony.
Funding is half the job. We administer grants and help communities position projects for WDNR programs, WIFIA, and USDA Rural Development - the East Troy dam removal moved forward because the grant administration did. When a project must fit a levy, we phase it to fit: the Town of Linn's drainage program advances a budget at a time, and never stalls.
Four examples of what communities hire us for - follow any of them for the full story.
More municipal work: Clayton & Bellview Avenues, STH 20 watermain relay, Country Bliss storm sewer, Piper Road, Marquette Avenue, and the New Berlin Farmers Market.
Our municipal client list is the honest resume: the Village of East Troy, Town of Linn, Town of Eagle, Town of Delavan, Town of Mukwonago, Town of Palmyra, Town of Burlington, City of Franklin, City of New Berlin, and the Village of Menomonee Falls, along with county-level work for Dodge County on the Gold Star Memorial Trail. Most sit within an hour of our Burlington and New Berlin offices - and for WisDOT-funded municipal projects, we work statewide.
A standing role: we attend meetings, review developments, answer resident questions, and keep the capital plan honest - the Town of Linn model.
A defined scope: one street, one watermain, one culvert - designed, bid, and inspected without a long-term commitment.
We identify the program, write the application support, administer the award, and document compliance through closeout.
Questions communities ask us - special assessments, what reconstruction is like for residents, funding sources - are answered on the municipal engineering page.
