Featured Articles and Case Studies
Wabaseemoong Independent Nations
Wabaseemoong Independent First Nations are a group of three communities located near the Ontario–Manitoba border about 120 kilometers north…
Pala Casino, CA
Given the casino’s need to meet CA Title 22 reuse quality standards, the MITA® Pile Cloth Disk Filter was identified as a great solution because it can cost-effectively achieve lower TSS and turbidity than most other options on the market.
Shellbrook, SK
Shellbrook’s objective was to treat its wastewater to the standards set by the CCME (Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment), which Saskatchewan Environment was in the process of adopting.
Pilot Butte, SK
Back in 2014, Pilot Butte’s population had just climbed past 2,500, and with several developments in progress, the Saskatchewan municipality needed to upgrade their two-cell facultative lagoon system to allow for more treatment capacity.
Maricopa, Arizona
In 2019, the Global Water – Palo Verde Water Reclamation Facility (WRF), located in northeastern Maricopa, AZ, was serving a growing population of 48,629 residents, while also seeing adjustments to their permit in their future.
Bloomer, WI
Like many municipalities across North America facing environmental concerns over phosphorus—Bloomer was given a new Total Phosphorus (TP) limit that its existing wastewater treatment was unable to achieve.
Park View, Iowa
Sanitary district upgrades lagoons for full cold weather ammonia nitrification within existing footprint.
Absarokee, MT
Fully utilizing a combination of Nexom’s expert technologies for BOD reduction and cold-water nitrification
Palmyra, WI
Retrofitting the existing lagoon for maintaining simple and reliable treatment to new specific limits.
Kingsley, IOWA: optAER & SAGR
optAER® SAGR®Project Background & Challenges Kingsley, population of 1,411 residents in 2020, is located 193 miles northwest of Iowa’s capital city, Des Moines, and is best known as the hometown of Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States. Between...
Brakebush Brothers, Westfield, WI: FlexAir
Aerobic Treatment at Chicken Products Manufacturing Plant
Colesburg, IA: optAER & SAGR
Combining two lagoon-based wastewater treatment facilities and upgrading long-term ammonia compliance.
Calgary International Airport, AB: optAER & SAGR Deicing Fluid Treatment
Treatment for glycol-contaminated stormwater to reduce environmental impact of discharge.
Grantsville, UT: IDEAL
IDEAL extended aeration system and batch reactor process doubles treatment capacity for lagoons just south of Great Salt Lake.
Bridgeport, CT: FlexAir, SiteWorks
Innovative SiteWorks installation of FlexAir fine-bubble allows large northeastern plant to realize savings literally overnight.
Seneca Landfill, PA
Helping a longstanding landfill’s WWTP meet new ammonia effluent limits with BioPorts™ technology.
Duckett Creek, MO: FlexAir & SiteWorks
Quarter-century relationship with St. Louis metro area treatment facility sees EDI deliver on the “Aeration for Life” promise.
Robert W. Hite Treatment Facility, Denver, CO: SiteWorks
At one of North America’s largest treatment facilities, SiteWorks gives a 31-year old aeration system new life.
Northwest Municipal WWTP, Springfield, MO: FlexAir Pro & SiteWorks
SiteWorks called upon by southern Missouri treatment facility for turnkey membrane replacement of decade-old FlexAir MiniPanel aeration system.
Frielas WWTP, Lisbon, Portugal: Streamline
Serving a quarter-million Portuguese, StreamLine® system upgrade improves SOTE, energy savings, and effluent quality.
F&A Dairy Plant, WI: FlexAir
Wisconsin dairy plant cuts blower requirement in half, improves DO, and removes odor with FlexAir fine-bubble aeration.
Bowling Green, MO: Fixed-Grid FlexAir
Jet aeration upgraded to EDI fixed-grid fine-bubble system to achieve 40% energy savings.
Food Processing Plant, WI: SAGR
Industrial wastewater treatment overcomes ultra-low influent phosphorus to comply with reduced ammonia limits.
Leeds, AL: BioPorts MBBR
Municipal wastewater plant intensifies treatment, adding nitrification capacity without adding footprint.
Military Base, MD: Blue Nite & Blue PRO
Denitrification added to sand filter-based phosphorus removal for dual nutrient removal.
Martensville, SK: optAER
Range of lagoon aeration options, include floating and Nexom-exclusive float-sink laterals, needed to reduce land area required for updated treatment facility.
Harrah, WA: optAER & SAGR
Cold water lagoons upgraded for tighter ammonia limits within the lagoons’ existing footprint.
Misipawistik Cree Nation, MB: optAER & SAGR
Remote, northern lagoon upgraded for year-round ammonia and phosphorus compliance.
Burrillville, RI: Blue PRO
Northeastern municipal wastewater treatment plant upgraded with Blue PRO reactive filtration for ultra-low phosphorus and metals removal.
Citronelle, AL: Blue PRO
Wastewater treatment plant upgrade doesn’t just beat an ultra-low Phosphorus limit, it beats North America’s lowest municipal Phosphorus limit.
Doaktown, NB: optAER & SAGR
An environmentally conscious wastewater facility upgrade uses the optAER lagoon aeration with SAGR to achieve year-round non-toxicity compliance.
Marlborough, MA: Blue PRO
New England wastewater treatment plant upgrade designed for Phosphorus removal and affordability.
Long Plain First Nation, MB: optAER & SAGR
Ojibway and Dakota community replaces its SBR with an aerated lagoon and SAGR for cold weather wastewater treatment.
Sundridge, ON: optAER, SAGR, Pile Cloth Filter, and SAGR Recycle
Wastewater facility upgraded for ammonia, phosphorus and total nitrogen removal without abandoning existing lagoons.
Mentone, IN: SAGR
Midwestern wastewater facility upgraded to meet low ammonia limits without abandoning existing lagoons.
Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, NY: SAGR Deicing Fluid Treatment
Upgrading airport cold weather stormwater treatment to treat high-strength glycol contamination from deicing fluid runoff.
Glencoe, ON: optAER & SAGR
Upgrading for WSER compliance through post-lagoon nitrification, without abandoning existing infrastructure.
Waterton National Park, AB: optAER
National park’s lagoon-based wastewater treatment facility allows for effluent reuse, thanks to aeration upgrade.
Removing CECs from Cold Water Post-Lagoon Wastewater Treatment Systems
A Canadian-made wastewater treatment innovation could be part of a long-term sustainable solution for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in extreme cold climates… It was this growing concern that prompted Jabari to join with the University of Winnipeg and Red River College in Manitoba in evaluating the removal of these types of compounds, using the fully-aerated submerged gravel bed technology known as SAGR.
CEC Removal in Cold Water SAGRs Observed: New Study
Advancing the science of cold climate wastewater treatment is important to the fulfillment of the Nexom vision, and a recent study published in the prestigious journal Chemosphere by a team including Nexom Research & Development Engineer Dr. Pouria Jabari does just that.
Reliable Disinfection Treatment Demonstrated by Cold Climate Nitrification Technology: Canadian Study
A Canadian wastewater treatment innovation has revealed itself to be more capable than previously thought, information that may have come at an important time for many of Canada’s small towns.
Ammonia and Diesel: Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation tackles two challenging foes with its simple, sustainable wastewater treatment plant
Northlands knows cold: located at 58°36’ N on the shores of Lac Brochet, even the average winter day features temperatures near -30°C. There’s a tendency to view the cold as an added complication, and to contend with it, additional systems must be put into place. But as Mattes speaks, it becomes clear that the solution involves not more complexity, but increased simplicity and sustainability.
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Lake Winnipeg Foundation: “[SAGR] Solves Northern Wastewater Challenges”
In an article published in their special insert to the April 7, 2018 Winnipeg Free Press, the Lake Winnipeg Foundation profiled Nexom’s SAGR technology as implemented at the Misipawistik Cree Nation (MCN) wastewater treatment plant…
Rocky Mountain House, AB: optAER
Lagoon upgrade helps western Alberta town achieve updated BOD and TSS limits and avoid building mechanical plant.
Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater Facility, OK: FlexAir
Reuse-quality water is the product of this high efficiency treatment system and SiteWorks maintenance package engineered for high variability, elevated temperatures and high salinity.
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Meet Tanner Devlin
Leading the way for all of our Intensified treatment solutions here at Nexom is Dr. Tanner Devlin. A Manitoba native, Tanner, has spent half of his career with the Nexom team helping customers like you find the solutions they need for their wastewater treatment...
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Press Releases and News
New in ES&E: Wabaseemoong retrofits MBBR into RBC basins
Read the full story published as a featured piece in the February 2026 issue of Environmental Science & Engineering (ES&E) magazine: Retrofitting the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations’ WWTP from a RBC to a MBBR.
New in WE&T: Could Blue Grass’s approach to modernizing its lagoon system help your facility?
The City of Blue Grass has commissioned a modernized lagoon system that is now shaping regulatory policy across Iowa.
Nexom and Suez Get a Boost for Cyclor Turbo
Axius Water partnership with Suez brings proven Cyclor® Turbo advanced wastewater solution to North American market.
Axius Water brings solutions together at WEFTEC 2025 that are STOPPING NUTRIENT POLLUTION
Axius Water (“Axius”), a leader in nutrient management for municipal and industrial wastewater, will showcase its mission to STOP NUTRIENT POLLUTION at WEFTEC 2025 in Chicago (Booths 3813 & 2820), from September 29 through October 1
Nexom®, an Axius Water company, partners with SUEZ® to bring enhanced Aerobic Granular Sludge (AGS) to North American Market
Nexom, an Axius Water company, announced today the launch of Cyclor® Turbo, the proven SUEZ technology for advanced wastewater treatment in a compact footprint.
Axius Water® Expands Nutrient Removal Capabilities with the Acquisition of S&N Airoflo, Inc.
POCASSET, Mass. (August 14, 2025): Axius Water (“Axius”), a leading provider of nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, announced today that it has acquired S&N Airoflo, Inc., a leading supplier of surface aeration systems, based in Greenwood, MS.
Nexom® SAGR® post-lagoon nitrification will now be smaller and more cost-effective than ever
Winnipeg, MB, Canada (July 22, 2025): Nexom, an Axius Water company, announces today the launch of its smaller-footprint SAGR system. This updated design will significantly reduce the capital cost to provide year-round wastewater ammonia treatment for lagoon-reliant...
Nexom named “the most significant player in the lagoon space” by GWI
In a January 22, 2025 report on North America’s lagoon industry, Global Water Intelligence (GWI) called Nexom “the most significant player in the lagoon space.” The article quotes Nexom Director of Application Engineering Merle Kroeker, providing context for changes...
Axius Water® Acquires Aero-Mod, a Leader in Mechanical and Biological Treatment
POCASSET, MA USA (January 8, 2025): Axius Water (“Axius”), a leading provider of nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, announced today that it has acquired Aero-Mod, a leading supplier of proprietary mechanical/biological wastewater treatment systems based in Manhattan, KS. This acquisition enables Axius to further expand its nutrient removal solutions for water and wastewater.
“Established Key Player”: GWI recognizes MITA Pile Cloth Filter’s role in filtration market
October 23, 2024: Global Water Intelligence (GWI) called out the MITA Water Technologies™ pile cloth filter (brought to the North American market by Nexom) as being an “established key player” in a recent article titled “Wastewater filtration sees new drivers for primary and tertiary treatment.”
Join Axius Water® and the Axius businesses at WEFTEC booth 1313 and 329 in NOLA
NEW ORLEANS, LA USA (October 7, 2024): Axius Water®, a leading provider of nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, announced today they will be in booth 1313 and 329 at WEFTEC 2024, in New Orleans, LA. Visitors are invited to the booth to learn how the Axius team is stronger together
Axius Water® acquires MITA Water Technologies®, a leader in wastewater treatment and filtration
MUNICH, GERMANY (13 May, 2024): ATAC Solutions®, EDI® (Environmental Dynamics International®), EOSi (Environmental Operating Solutions), Napier-Reid, and Nexom®, Axius Water® companies, are stronger together at IFAT’s Hall A3, Stand 315 and uniting around the mission of “Stopping Nutrient Pollution.” Learn how their proven solutions enable customers to improve the effectiveness of water and wastewater treatment in industrial and municipal applications.
Nexom: IFAT 2024 Press Release
MUNICH, GERMANY (13 May, 2024): ATAC Solutions®, EDI® (Environmental Dynamics International®), EOSi (Environmental Operating Solutions), Napier-Reid, and Nexom®, Axius Water® companies, are stronger together at IFAT’s Hall A3, Stand 315 and uniting around the mission of “Stopping Nutrient Pollution.” Learn how their proven solutions enable customers to improve the effectiveness of water and wastewater treatment in industrial and municipal applications.
Axius Water: Shortlisted for Water Technology Company of the Year
POCASSET, MA USA (February 26, 2024): Axius Water, leading provider of nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, announced today that it has been shortlisted for the Global Water Intelligence (GWI), Water Technology...
Axius Water acquires Triplepoint Environmental, a leader in transforming wastewater lagoons.
POCASSET, MA USA (October 3, 2023): Axius Water announced today that it has acquired Colorado-based Triplepoint Environmental, a leading supplier of wastewater lagoon systems for rural communities. Axius Water is a portfolio of businesses focused on improving the...
EDI, EOSi, Napier-Reid & Nexom are Stronger Together as Axius Water companies at WEFTEC 2023, featuring proven, sustainable nutrient management solutions
Four operating companies of Axius Water exhibiting at WEFTEC 2023 in booth 1042 First WEFTEC appearance for Napier-Reid, a seventy year-old water and wastewater equipment engineering firm See EDI’s 9-foot wide fine-bubble aeration curvilinear panel diffuser, EOSi’s...
Stronger Together 2022 Sustainability Overview from Axius Water Now Available
POCASSET, MA USA (September 26, 2023): Axius Water announced today, the release of the 2022 Sustainability Overview now available for download at axiuswater/sustainability/. Axius Water is a portfolio of businesses focused on improving the effectiveness of water and...
Napier-Reid, provider of water and wastewater treatment systems, joins Axius Water
POCASSET, MA USA (February 22, 2023): Axius Water announced today that it has broadened its platform by acquiring Napier-Reid, a leading supplier of custom-engineered water and wastewater treatment systems located in Ontario, Canada. Axius Water is a portfolio of...
Cindy Paulson joins the board of directors of Axius Water
POCASSET, Mass. USA (December 14, 2022): Axius Water, a portfolio of businesses focused on improving the effectiveness of the treatment processes to remove nutrients in industrial and municipal applications, announces today that Cindy Paulson has joined the Axius...
Stronger Together: Axius Water 2021 Sustainability Overview
Axius Water Operating Companies continue to make collective sustainability impact across environmental, social, and governance issues for the 2021 fiscal year.Throughout the Axius Water Platform, Nexom, EDI and other operating companies make substantial impacts to...
EDI, EOSi, & Nexom are Stronger Together as Axius Water Companies at WEFTEC 2022 featuring proven, sustainable nutrient management solutions
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA (October 10, 2022): Environmental Dynamics International (EDI), Environmental Operating Solutions (EOSi), & Nexom - all Axius Water companies - come together for their WEFTEC debut to showcase their proven wastewater solutions for aeration,...
Nexom partners with MITA to bring globally renowned cloth disk filter to North America
Nexom will be the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of MITA Water Technologies’ pile cloth disk filters in North America MITA has more than 25 years’ experience building disk filters, with more than 600 installations worldwide Nexom will build MITA cloth disk...
EDI, EOSi, Nexom & ATAC come together as Axius Water companies at IFAT 2022 in Hall A3, Stand 315 to feature proven nutrient management solutions
MUNICH GERMANY (30 May, 2022): Environmental Dynamics International (EDI), Environmental Operating Solutions (EOSi), Nexom, and ATAC Solutions, all Axius Water companies, come together for their IFAT debut to showcase their proven wastewater solutions for worry-free...
KKR and XPV Grow Water Quality Platform with acquisition of Environmental Dynamics International (EDI)
Completes First Add-on to Strategic Platform that includes Nexom and EOSi New York – June 23, 2020 – A global strategic platform established by KKR and XPV Water Partners to provide end-to-end nutrient management solutions, today announced the acquisition of...
Removing CECs from Cold Water Post-Lagoon Wastewater Treatment Systems
A Canadian-made wastewater treatment innovation could be part of a long-term sustainable solution for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in extreme cold climates… It was this growing concern that prompted Jabari to join with the University of Winnipeg and Red River College in Manitoba in evaluating the removal of these types of compounds, using the fully-aerated submerged gravel bed technology known as SAGR.
CEC Removal in Cold Water SAGRs Observed: New Study
Advancing the science of cold climate wastewater treatment is important to the fulfillment of the Nexom vision, and a recent study published in the prestigious journal Chemosphere by a team including Nexom Research & Development Engineer Dr. Pouria Jabari does just that.
Nexom’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Nexom remains open for business even as our employees’ and customers’ safety remains our first priority.“ A message from our CEO, Martin Hildebrand.
KKR and XPV
NEW YORK – December 3, 2019 – KKR, in partnership with XPV Water Partners, today announced the formation of a wastewater treatment platform with the goal of creating the leading provider of end-to-end nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities….
Reliable Disinfection Treatment Demonstrated by Cold Climate Nitrification Technology: Canadian Study
A Canadian wastewater treatment innovation has revealed itself to be more capable than previously thought, information that may have come at an important time for many of Canada’s small towns.
Nexom Repeats as Best Employer in Wastewater Industry
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Hunter Crown awards “2018 Best Workplace” for Wastewater category to Nexom.
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Award based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of employee survey.
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Nexom has won this award in both years it has been presented.
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Hunter Crown is a water-focused executive search partner based in Frederick, MD.
Ammonia and Diesel: Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation tackles two challenging foes with its simple, sustainable wastewater treatment plant
Northlands knows cold: located at 58°36’ N on the shores of Lac Brochet, even the average winter day features temperatures near -30°C. There’s a tendency to view the cold as an added complication, and to contend with it, additional systems must be put into place. But as Mattes speaks, it becomes clear that the solution involves not more complexity, but increased simplicity and sustainability.
Lake Winnipeg Foundation: “[SAGR] Solves Northern Wastewater Challenges”
In an article published in their special insert to the April 7, 2018 Winnipeg Free Press, the Lake Winnipeg Foundation profiled Nexom’s SAGR technology as implemented at the Misipawistik Cree Nation (MCN) wastewater treatment plant…
Desalitech and Nexom win 2017 Best Employers to Work for in the Water and Wastewater Industry
Nexom is the most exciting organization I’ve ever worked for. Led by a wonderful group of people who truly care about the team, and staffed by an incredible community of people that go the extra mile for one another.
Wastewater Leader Nexom Acquires Entex BioPortz MBBR Technology
WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Nexom CEO Tom Pokorsky today announced the successful acquisition of BioPortz™ Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) system from Entex Technologies, Inc. The acquisition will allow Nexom, a leading provider of wastewater processing technologies, to broaden its biological treatment portfolio in support of its diverse, growing customer base.
Wastewater Leader Nexom Accelerates Growth with Filtration Acquisition
- Nexom acquires assets of Blue Water Technologies.
- Blue Water a specialist in tertiary sand filters and primary pre-screening.
- Nexom a wastewater treatment technologies leader for lagoons and filtration.
- Nexom now operating from offices in Winnipeg MB, Grafton WI, and Hayden ID.
XPV Water Partners, Water Industry Executives Jointly Form Nexom
- New wastewater company led by CEO Thomas M. Pokorsky and President Martin Hildebrand.
- Company formed to be leader in nutrient removal and energy and operating efficiency.
- Created from Winnipeg-based Nelson Environmental Inc., founded in 1997.
- Nexom purchased cloth disk filtration technology; more acquisitions in progress.