What we do
Collection, lift stations and treatment, with the permit path chosen before design.
We design wastewater systems for Texas development and for the utilities that serve it: gravity collection, lift stations and force mains, treatment plants, and reclaimed water storage and irrigation. When a site has no sewer, we also prepare the TCEQ permit or authorization its plant needs.
The disposal route sets the cost, the schedule and the permit, so we compare the routes for your site before design starts.
Eligibility turns on the flow, its source and quality, where the treated water goes and who has jurisdiction. Read 210E authorization vs TPDES for how the two compare.
TCEQ’s design rules for collection systems, lift stations and treatment plants are in 30 TAC Chapter 217. For a new plant, we prepare the preliminary engineering report and the TCEQ design submittal, then the construction documents. Collection system plans go to TCEQ with a summary transmittal letter sealed by the design engineer, unless a city with TCEQ approval authority reviews them. We can stay on through construction for submittals, contractor questions, site visits and as-built drawings.
Bring us in before you close on land or set the site plan, when a county denies a septic permit, or when the utility cannot take your flow. See also water and sewer utility design and lift station design.
An engineer reads your note and tells you the pathway, the agencies involved and what decides cost and schedule.
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Projects
Taylor, TX
After Williamson County denied a septic permit, MES pursued a TCEQ 210E reuse authorization for this 6,700 gpd business park. The published case records approval in four weeks. MES also prepared the site civil, drainage, wastewater, fire line and plat submittals.
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Milford, TX
A 15,000 gpd lift station sized for three phases of the park, with TCEQ and city coordination and installation support.
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Oak Creek, CO
Infiltration, inflow and water loss measured, with cost estimates and a prioritized improvement plan.
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We compare the other paths: a septic system for small flows, a plant with a TPDES discharge permit, land application under a TLAP, or reuse under a 210E authorization when the site has an industrial wastewater stream.
Only if it has an industrial wastewater stream. The flow, its quality and the planned reuse decide it, and an all-domestic project cannot use it. We check before you commit to a path.
For full buildout, then we check how it runs in the early phases, when flows are low. In Milford, we sized an RV park’s lift station for all three phases.
Talk to an engineer
Not a salesperson. Someone who can tell you whether the pathway is real.
Your options, the agencies involved and the questions that decide cost and schedule.
No commitment to have the first call.
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