Coming to the ACE24 water conference in Anaheim, CA this June? IWS will be there and we’d love to chat! Learn more about the show and book a time to meet with us!

Join Integrated Water Services (IWS) for a day filled with fun, food, and festivities at the South Texas BBQ Bash! We're rolling out the red carpet for our esteemed employees, valued clients, and trusted subcontractors. Plus, don't miss out on IWS's very own big tent with shaded tables and chairs, offering a cool oasis from [...]

Chris P Dooley, Todd Brunetti, and Scot Pearson will be on-site representing Integrated Water Services. The team from Crom, LLC will be joining us as well! We’d love to talk with you! Schedule time to meet with Chris P Dooley (IWS Chief Commercial Officer) or Grant Kunkel (IWS Sales Representative) while you’re at the show […]

This article explores the effects of cold temperature on MBR systems, focusing on the challenges and strategies to optimize performance in climatic conditions you may encounter. 

MBRs must be managed to handle certain environmental variables, like extreme temperature fluctuations.

Particle size distribution refers to the range of particle sizes present in a sample and is a major factor in wastewater treatment.

Understanding your SRT is critical because this metric influences the overall performance of the biological treatment process.

This article explores the nuanced process of MBR retrofitting, focusing on the technical challenges, strategic considerations, and long-term benefits.

Understanding the physics and chemistry of fouling is crucial for maintaining the performance of MBR systems.

Getting out in front of any sludge bulking tendencies will improve the efficiency of the treatment process.

As MBRs gain popularity, operations must contend with the inherent aeration problems they present. 

In wastewater treatment, aeration systems are the central nerve of the whole operation.

Every wastewater aeration technology fits a niche.

The wastewater treatment industry is exploring artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, to improve MBR systems by optimizing operations and reducing costs.

MBR systems’ environmental benefits make them perfect for modern residential developments aiming for sustainable operations.

In Texas, a developer overcame sewer access challenges and strict water quality regulations by installing a decentralized membrane bioreactor (MBR) system. This approach treated sewage to high standards, allowing for development without municipal plant access. Integrated Water Services expedited the process with modular MBR systems, demonstrating a scalable and efficient solution for residential wastewater treatment […]

The St. Vrain Water Treatment Facility CMAR project is a new 1.5 MGD green field water plant for the Town of Firestone, Colorado located about 4 miles southeast of the Longmont office. The plant’s Two-Phase plant design is engineered to accommodate additional water resources as need arises with growth throughout the area. The WTP will […]

The community of Monte Verdi Estates in Clovis, CA has upgraded it’s existing SBR wastewater treatment system to an MBR treatment system to meet its Title 22 Re-Use discharge limits, thereby allowing the use of the recycled water to irrigate the greenbelt areas throughout its subdivision versus using potable water for irrigation. This 125 home […]

PROJECTS: Commercial / Industrial SERVICES: Construction;  Start up / Operations TECHNOLOGY: Activated Sludge LOCATION: Brush, CO DESCRIPTION:  Integrated Water Services, Inc.(www.integratedwaterservices.com) recently completed the construction of the expanded activated sludge wastewater treatment system at the Brush Meat Processors, LLC (BM Processors) located in Brush, CO (100 miles northeast of Denver). BM Processors is a privately-owned enterprise that operates a bison […]

PROJECTS: Tribal Projects; Casinos; Resorts/RetreatsSERVICES: Design-Build; Start up / Operations; Value EngineeringTECHNOLOGY: MBR/Membrane Filter; Lift StationSUSTAINABLE: Landscape/Subsurface Irrigation LOCATION: Tesuque, New MexicoDESCRIPTION: Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) has completed work on its $4.7 million Design-Build contract with the Tesuque Pueblo to design, permit, and construct a wastewater treatment system to produce disinfected tertiary water to […]

The Harold D. Thompson Regional Water Reclamation Facility, located in Fountain, CO (10 miles south of Colorado Springs) has completed its $4.5mm phosphorous treatment system upgrade to meet its new effluent limits that became effective on July 1, 2018. Colorado Regulation 85 modified the phosphorous and inorganic nitrogen limits in 2012 to reduce nutrient pollution […]

Integrated Water Services was awarded the Tyler Voss Middle School WWTP in Boerne, Texas for the turn-key construction of the facility’s wastewater treatment plant. IWS installed an MBR (Membrane Bioreactor) treatment system with UV disinfection, an irrigation pump station and lift station in order to service the middle school’s facility. IWS value engineered the Tyler […]

A California winery has recently completed the upgrade of its process wastewater treatment system to allow for the land application of up to 80 million gallons of treated effluent on over 150 acres of crops.   The treatment system includes mechanical screening, aeration, and 750,000 gallons of lined sump storage capacity.   The new process water treatment […]

The City of Winslow, AZ recently upgraded its 2.2 MGD wastewater plant which will increase the efficiency of its operations, replace its clarifiers and headworks, upgrade its oxidation ditch, and upgrade many plant support components in this $7 million construction project completed by Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS). […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) was a key team member on a $24 million recycled wastewater plant to service commercial businesses in the Civic Center area of Malibu, CA. The MBR treatment plant is designed for flows up to 188k GPD (with expansion to 376k GPD) that will meet Title 22 requirements for Disinfected Tertiary Recycled Water. […]

Construction on the Gloria Way Well upgrade in the City of East Palo Alto, CA (“the City”) has been completed and will produce up to 300 gallons per minute of potable water which represents a critical milestone in diversifying the City’s water supply portfolio. This $3.2 million project was completed by Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) and included a new well pump and Iron and Manganese removal system. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) has completed the first phase of its Design-Build MBR wastewater treatment project for The Grove at Vintage Oaks. This 440 home neighborhood is part of the upscale Vintage Oaks development located outside of San Antonio, Texas in New Braunfels. The first phase of the project will require treatment of up to 35,000 gallons per day of wastewater flow with final build out at 130,000 gallons per day […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) has completed the construction of the Clear Creek MBR upgrade wastewater project in Dumont, CO (40 miles west of Denver in the Rocky Mountains) for the Central Clear Creek Sanitation District. The project will improve water quality in Clear Creek for community residents and businesses in and near Dumont, Colorado and downstream communities. […]

Berthoud Estates, a 480 acre residential community located 45 miles north of Denver, Colorado and 3 miles east of the Town of Berthoud, recently upgraded its wastewater treatment infrastructure from a lagoon treatment system to an SBR plant to meet the regulatory discharge requirements. The construction value of the projected was approximately $2mm. […]

The Furnace Creek region of Death Valley (known as the Oasis in the Desert) which comprises the famous Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch, RV park, campgrounds, and restaurants has completed the construction and commissioning of a new “low carbon footprint” wastewater treatment system that is very energy efficient and uses natural biological process to treat domestic wastewater. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) has recently completed the installation of one of the first EcoVolt Reactor systems in California at the Bear Republic Brewery in Cloverdale which treats high-strength brewery wastewater.

The EcoVolt Reactor efficiently treats wastewater while extracting clean energy and clean water, allowing production facilities to both cut wastewater management costs and achieve sustainability goals. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) teamed with Mortenson Construction and the City and County of Denver Wastewater Management Division (WMD) to construct a $1.7mm lift station for the Park Creek Metropolitan District Stapleton Redevelopment. The Section 10 lift station will serve the Beeler Park development that is slated to accommodate approximately 1,200 dwelling units. The 22-foot deep lift station is capable of running all three of its 345 hp submersible pumps simultaneously with the peak capacity of conveying 3.5 million gallons of wastewater (2,460 gallons/minute) to a wastewater treatment plant. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) has completed the construction and start-up of the $7.1mm Bayfield Water Treatment Plant Expansion project located in southwest Colorado.

Bayfield is a rural town and partnered with the local La Plata Archuleta Water District to upgrade and expand the existing water treatment plant that will serve the town and surrounding areas. The project included the demolition and upgrades to the intake facilities, modifications of the existing plant building, construction of a new water treatment plant, and completion of all the work while the existing plant remains in operation. […]

The Southern Arizona community of San Luis now has clean drinking water after flipping the switch on their new Manganese treatment plant that will process up to 2,200 Gallons Per Minute of the city’s potable water supply. In addition to exceeding the EPA mandated MCL’s by an order of magnitude, the manganese caused staining of fixtures and clothing as a result of oxidation, which is enhanced through the use of bleaching agents in household laundry. Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) constructed the system, completed all the testing and start-up, and provided training for this $2mm potable water treatment system. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) recently completed the installation and start-up of an onsite water and wastewater treatment system for a newly constructed Travel Center in Oregon which features an advanced denitrification upflow filter to meet low nitrogen discharge limits. The project required a complete wastewater treatment and water treatment system to service the newly constructed travel center on the I-84 corridor on the Columbia River. […]

IWS recently completed a Wastewater Pretreatment Plant in the Rocky Mountain region for a large industrial client to treat process and domestic wastewater from its product wash area using an MBR and Ion Exchange treatment train before discharging to the municipal sewer. The project value including the owner furnished equipment and building was approximately $6mm. […]

The Chicken Ranch Rancheria Indian tribe operates a casino near Jamestown, California. The Tribe was interested in replacing the existing textile filter wastewater system with the installation and construction of a New Water Reclamation Facility (WRF). This new plant would treat the collected wastewater to tertiary standards and use an extensive drip irrigation system for discharge of the treated water. The overall project cost for all of IWS work and the owner provided equipment was approximately $2.3mm. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) completed the installation of a 22 AX-Max wastewater treatment system for the City of Alexander, ND in December, 2014. Alexander is located 15 miles south of Williston, the hub of the Bakken Oil Field region in western North Dakota. The shale oil boom has resulted in rapid growth of the Bakken region, and the City of Alexander needed to replace its aging three cell lagoon which was approaching its operating capacity. […]

LOCATION: TexasPROJECT TYPE: Residential DevelopmentsSERVICE: Construction, Engineering/Permitting, Start-up / OperationsTECHNOLOGY: Textile Filter IWS was instrumental in helping us get the treatment plant designed and constructed in a very short period of time which enabled us to start selling houses as quickly as possible. DESCRIPTION: In November, 2015 Integrated Water Services (IWS) completed a turn-key design-build of the Crossings at Havenswood wastewater […]

The View Hotel is a 95 room hotel located within the Navajo Nation and Navajo Tribal Park at Monument Valley. Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes located on the Arizona-Utah state line near the Four Corners area within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. has completed the design, construction, and start-up of the wastewater treatment plant servicing the Lerin Hills Subdivision in Kendall County, Texas. […]

IWS nears completion of its $2.6mm Design-Build contract with Kennedy Wilson (www.kennedywilson.com) for the permitting, design, and construction of a wastewater treatment and dispersal system to service a remodeled high end retail complex on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA. […]

IWS was contracted to complete the construction and Installation of two (2) independent wastewater treatment plants and related equipment for a private development company that was constructing two high end restaurants along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA.

The two treatments systems are dedicated to servicing this $20 million commercial development complex, which features two world class restaurants. IWS worked with the project engineer and the development team to assist in the layout of the treatment system to address constructability issues. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) was selected by the City of Santa Clara, CA to construct an advanced multi-phase bio-filtration system to revitalize one of its showcase park’s features, its Central Park Pond. The new system will save no less than 1.4 million gallons of potable water by switching to recycled water and the engineered wetland treatment system. The project had a very tight construction schedule which IWS met in time for the July 4th ribbon-cutting ceremony. The old pond suffered from an imbalance in nutrients due to ducks, geese, and water runoff from the surrounding park bringing organic waste into the pond. The new bio-filtration system uses wetland plants to absorb the excess nutrients in the water, and the wetland plants used in the system will also provide habitat for birds and the insects they eat. The IWS scope of work included demolition of some existing structures and piping, constructing a 175 ft. long and 8 ft. high stone faced concrete retaining wall, excavation in the existing island, placing the liner, importing and placing the aggregate for the bio-filtration system, all piping and pump installation, pond skimmers, and planting the vegetation on the surface of the treatment system. […]

IWS has completed the turn-key construction, start-up, and O&M prove out for a new retail complex’s wastewater treatment system in California. The treatment system was notable for the large concrete basin, which required over 900 cubic yards of concrete to construct. The treatment system was a pre-engineered packaged treatment system which included fine screens, pumps, blowers, and a biosolids management system consisting of a pump, blower, and aerators. The project was designed to service up to 20,000 GPD of wastewater. Treated water was dispersed in 20 ft deep, 6’ diameter seepage pits that were installed as part of the IWS project scope. […]

IWS was awarded a contract by the Tule River Indian Tribe to complete construction of the Wastewater Treatment Facility at the Tribes property in Porterville, CA. The Tribe in conjunction with US Indian Health Services had a design completed for the overall system.

In addition to the installation of the packaged Ovivo® microBLOX™ MBR, the project included connection to the residential conveyance service line and purchase and installation of a 96” diameter by 28ft deep duplex influent lift station. The lift station conveys influent, via pipeline installed by IWS to a 75,000 GPD package MBR wastewater treatment plant and two 12,000 gallon equalization tanks. […]

IWS recently teamed with Souder, Miller and Associates (SMA) on a Design-Build approach to install an improved wastewater treatment system (WWTS) with the capacity to treat up to 30,000 GPD for the 132 home Tesuque Trailer Village owned and operated by the Pueblo of Tesuque located 10 miles north of Santa Fe, NM. The Design-Build contract with the Pueblo was to permit, design, construct, and start-up the WWTS, which is replacing three undersized and failing septic tanks and leach fields.

The Pueblo of Tesuque is a member of the Eight Northern Pueblos and is from the Tewa speaking ethnic group of Native Americans. One of the most traditional of all the Tewa speaking Pueblos, the Tesuque have maintained their customs and traditions even though they have been in contact with outside cultures throughout much of their history. Archaeologists have determined that the Pueblo existed before 1200 A.D. Tesuque Trailer Village consists of two main areas, the original area developed around 1960 and the new area developed in the mid-1980s. Infrastructure in the older area was in poor condition and water and sewer improvements to replace leaking and deteriorated water and sewer lines were conducted as a separate component of this project by SMA. […]

Integrated Water Services, Inc. (IWS) was selected by the City of Santa Clara, CA to construct an advanced multi-phase bio-filtration system to revitalize one of its showcase park’s features, its Central Park Pond. The new system will save no less than 1.4 million gallons of potable water by switching to recycled water and the engineered wetland treatment system. The project had a very tight construction schedule which IWS met in time for the July 4th ribbon-cutting ceremony. The old pond suffered from an imbalance in nutrients due to ducks, geese, and water runoff from the surrounding park bringing organic waste into the pond. The new bio-filtration system uses wetland plants to absorb the excess nutrients in the water, and the wetland plants used in the system will also provide habitat for birds and the insects they eat. The IWS scope of work included demolition of some existing structures and piping, constructing a 175 ft. long and 8 ft. high stone faced concrete retaining wall, excavation in the existing island, placing the liner, importing and placing the aggregate for the bio-filtration system, all piping and pump installation, pond skimmers, and planting the vegetation on the surface of the treatment system. […]

IWS is now providing services to clients in North Dakota to support the infrastructure and development boom accompanying the Bakken Oil Field development. Clients are looking for turn-key solutions for the permitting, design, and construction of onsite water and wastewater services. Jeff Thomas (VP) of IWS says, “Clients are looking for solutions, they need projects […]

IWS has contracted with Jaynes Corporation of Albuquerque to design and construct a 20,000 gpd peak flow wastewater treatment system and drip field. Rancho Encantado is a high-end resort featuring 65 casitas, restaurants and spa. The wastewater system consists of an AdvanTex treatment system including septic, grease and recirculation tanks. Effluent will be disposed via […]

Direct from the South Texas Barbecue Bash, Alex Buehler, President/CEO, and George Bunker, Vice President of Safety and Quality, share their thoughts about the future of waste water treatment, and in particular, the role modular membrane bioreactors can uniquely play in addressing challenges and achieving environmental goals.

Exploring Water Conservation Strategies With Chris Dooley and Food Engineering Magazine Chris Dooley, chief commercial officer of Integrated Water Services, Inc., discusses water conservation strategies for food and beverage manufacturers and the evolving perception of using treated wastewater as an ingredient.

Tom Rooney The Big Shift: How Consolidation is Reshaping Water Services In his interview, Tom discussed: how the U.S. water infrastructure's profound fragmentation contrasts starkly with the emerging trend of consolidation; the role of regulators in this consolidation trend, balancing the scales between progress and fair competition; how BluBox technology transforms the accessibility of advanced water treatment [...]

Alex Buehler Bundling Success: The New Era of Water Service Solutions In Alex's interview, topics included: how the middle market in the water industry represents a significant step above the niche that Central State Water Resources (CSWR) serves, focusing on suburban and ex-urban communities; why the BluBox represents a breakthrough in water treatment, offering a [...]