Spectrum Water Solutions
At Spectrum, Water Solutions is where advanced treatment science meets hands-on expertise. From patented Turbo Phase Separators to turnkey commissioning, bypass, and recycling systems, our engineers, chemists, and field crews work side-by-side with your team to turn compliance challenges into performance gains.
Whether you operate an industrial complex, municipal utility, or environmental restoration project, Spectrum delivers the chemistry, equipment, and real-world insight that keep water systems safe, efficient, and sustainable — proving every day that one point of accountability makes all the difference.
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Projects
The work that happens on your site, with our people running it.
Hydraulic & mechanical removal of sediments from ponds, lagoons, and waterways.
Why it matters
Revitalizes waterbodies, restores storage, and prepares sites for expansion — delivered turnkey with safety and stewardship at every step.
Bathymetric sonar surveys that map sludge depth across the cell and return a real volume in cubic yards and dry tons.
Why it matters
The survey is where the cleanout budget is actually decided — and it comes back as a scope you can put out for bid.
Patented turbo-box fleet (largest in the U.S.), belt presses, centrifuges, and geotextile tubes.
Why it matters
Roughly 2X the dry tons per haul versus typical dewatering — lower disposal cost, drier cake for beneficial reuse.
Start-up support for new or expanded plants — equipment testing, feed-rate tuning, operator training.
Why it matters
Day-1 performance that meets design spec and avoids costly “shake-down” excursions.
Treatment
Spectrum's seasoned engineers and chemists keep your water infrastructure running at peak performance — from temporary bypasses to advanced polishing.
Industrial hoses, diaphragm transfer pumps, inline mixers, scrubbers and cartridge or bag filters can be packaged with any main line equipment for a true one call solution.
Bypass pumpingChemical precipitation, filtration, adsorption, and disinfection that meets the strictest permits.
pH neutralization, oil–water separation, equalization, and metals removal that protect sewer systems and downstream biology.
Wastewater pretreatmentMembranes, biological polishing, and disinfection that turn waste streams into reusable water — cutting freshwater demand and discharge fees.
Water recycling & reuseCleaning
Removing what has built up inside the asset, and restoring what it was designed to do.
Confined-space crews remove sludge, scale, and bacteria; protect assets and product quality.
Industrial tank cleaningTargeted formulations dissolve scale, rust, and organics in heat exchangers, boilers, and membranes — restoring efficiency and preventing unplanned shutdowns.
Chemical cleaning
Cleaning & maintenance
Because Spectrum dewaters, profiles and disposes of whatever comes out of the vessel, cleaning and waste are one contract rather than two vendors pointing at each other. Vacuum-loadable enclosed boxes and packed-bed scrubbers handle the streams where odor and volatile containment matter.
Industrial tank cleaning
Consulting
Spectrum grew out of technical wastewater consulting, and we have never charged for working out what is wrong — we sell the solution, not the diagnosis. With a full in-house laboratory behind it, that means data-driven troubleshooting rather than a catalog answer:
Product Sales
High-performance treatment chemicals backed by technical support.
Advanced polymers tailored to your solids-liquid separation needs.
Alum and specialty blends that deliver rapid, consistent clarification.
Acids, bases, oxidizers, and disinfectants — safe handling, reliable supply.
Proprietary bacteria cultures that boost biological treatment naturally.
Rapid knock-down of nuisance foam without upsetting plant chemistry.
Chemistry
Flocculants, coagulants, commodity chemicals, bioaugmentation cultures and defoamers, backed by technical support from the chemists who ran the bench work on your sample. Automated polymer blending skids then deliver the solution properly hydrated — because a correctly chosen polymer that is badly hydrated performs like the wrong one.
Customers served
Refineries, chemical plants, terminals and mills trust Spectrum with their water — most of them on recurring site contracts rather than one-off jobs.
Both. Water, Environmental, Carbon and Equipment run as one team under one contract, so the same crew that treats the stream can profile, haul and document the residuals. You brief one company instead of coordinating four.
Pre-engineered skids and trailers are held wet-tested and ready. For carbon systems Spectrum targets compliance within 48 hours of arrival; for dewatering and bypass work the limiting factor is usually site access rather than equipment availability. Call the 24/7 line with your flow rate and contaminant and you will get a real timeline.
Yes. The in-house laboratory runs jar tests, treatability studies, microbiological profiling and chemical fingerprinting, so the polymer or coagulant you are quoted is the one that worked on your sample rather than the one on the shelf.
DAF units run from 50 to 1,000 gpm, carbon systems from 50 gpm skids to trailers engineered for 1,200 gpm on the liquid side, and dredging and dewatering packages scale with the box fleet. Larger flows are handled by paralleling units rather than by turning the work away.
Four buckets, one call
Water, Environmental, Carbon, and Equipment run as one team under one contract — so you brief a single crew and get an answer, not a referral.