A plumber's son from Denver who built AGL Construction's lead service line program from paper forms up. Today utilities across the country ask how he does it.
Brodie was born and raised in the Denver area, and he grew up around pipe. His father owned a plumbing company. Brodie earned his journeyman hours before college and later went on to his master plumber license.
In February 2020 AGL Construction brought him on to help run its part of Denver Water's lead service line replacement program. At the time AGL was a site utility and earthwork contractor. It had never done residential replacement work.
Brodie built the program's systems from scratch, first in spreadsheets and paper forms, then in digital field reporting. AGL became one of the first contractors in the program to track every property, investigation, and replacement digitally.
AGL is a woman-owned contractor in Commerce City, Colorado, replacing lead service lines for Denver Water and five more Front Range cities. A crew of two with a truck and a backhoe can pothole 20 to 30 properties a day.
Brodie's job is everything that keeps that pace honest. His focus on getting the details right has shaped how AGL operates.
Scheduling, billing, quality control, and coordination with utilities, program managers, field crews, and homeowners all run through Brodie.
He has helped AGL repeatedly earn the top position in Denver Water's competitive bidding while keeping its management team small.
Brodie vetted more than a dozen software platforms, then co-developed the custom operations system AGL runs on today. Inspection forms feed dozens of workflows, and a fix never waits on anyone else's approval.
Five inspectors, one booking link. On one Tuesday the team finished 63 pre-construction inspections, and Denver Water followed it all on a live dashboard instead of reviewing property by property.
Hazen and Sawyer manages lead programs for utilities across the country. In 2025 their team flew out to walk AGL's job sites and see how the Denver program really runs: the crews, the potholing, the inspections, and the data behind all of it.
That visit turned into a working relationship. Brodie has since presented to Hazen and Sawyer's national team, and advised cities such as Richmond, Virginia, on setting up replacement programs that contractors can carry out at scale:
Brodie lives in the Colorado foothills with his wife, Kadyn, and their two children, Everlyn and Bowen. He and Kadyn have known each other since middle school.
He was raised on snowboarding and camping trips, and he still spends his free time outdoors with the family.
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All Things Water Podcast, Hazen and Sawyer Coming soon
Brodie joins Hazen and Sawyer to talk about what it takes to replace lead lines at scale, and what cities can learn from the crews doing the work.
Running a lead program, or bidding on one? Send Brodie a note and he'll call or email you back.