Recover Fast: Your Guide To Wastewater Treatment System Restoration

The question isn’t if process upsets will happen — it’s when. Whether due to a sudden increase in capacity needs, regulatory pressures, equipment failures, wet weather or other seasonal fluctuations, it’s critical to return to compliance as soon as possible to avoid costly shutdowns.

One proven way to recover quickly from process upsets is through a comprehensive toolkit that combines process expertise, on-demand equipment and accelerated biological restoration, giving you multiple pathways to compliance and stable performance.

Rental Equipment That Arrives When You Need It

Time-sensitive challenges require easily deployable hardware solutions that don’t take months to procure, engineer and install. That’s why World Water Works offers a robust equipment rental program to provide the treatment capacity your system needs — when you need it.

DAF for primary treatment support. When solids separation becomes the bottleneck, dissolved air flotation (DAF) systems offer proven clarification performance. Made from polypropylene, rentable units can handle up to 2,000 GPM while resisting the corrosive conditions and pH extremes that challenge traditional steel systems. The compact design means you can add significant treatment capacity without commandeering your entire site. From emergency responses to planned maintenance coverage, these systems deploy in three weeks or less.

Fixed-film biology for load management. Moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) systems excel during the same conditions that overwhelm conventional treatment — including sudden load increases, temperature drops and feed interruptions. MBBR rentals include new bio-media that provides a protected surface area for beneficial biofilm growth. The bacteria digest organics and nutrients in the waste stream, converting soluble material into biomass that can be removed downstream. These systems remove over 90% of influent BOD and/or ammonia, reduce loads to downstream activated sludge processes, delivering stable performance even under varying loads.

Enhanced settling through biomass selection. WWW™ inDENSE™ gravimetric selection technology promotes denser biomass that settles rapidly and treats efficiently. The results: enhanced phosphorus removal, reliable cold-weather nitrification and increased clarifier capacity — the capabilities you need when recovering from operational disruptions.

Flexible commercial arrangements through our ROi program mean you’re not locked into immediate capital expenditures. Choose the rental duration or lease structure that aligns with your operational budget and long-term plans.

Rebuilding Biology From the Ground Up

When process upsets compromise your microbial communities, strategic bioaugmentation strategies will rebuild them faster than natural succession ever could. WWW™ ArxZyme™ bioaugmentation formulations deliver concentrated bacterial cultures selected for specific treatment objectives.

The approach is simple: we introduce organisms that excel at degrading your target compounds, provide them with the conditions to thrive and then let competitive advantage do the rest — no pre-hydration or complicated preparation protocols. Direct addition to aerated zones or the RAS line begins the restoration process immediately.

The inoculation strategy runs in two phases. Initial high-concentration seeding over seven days establishes the new population quickly. Then, maintenance dosing sustains the community. Within 2 to 4 weeks, most systems reach stable performance with the enhanced biology in place.

Because different waste streams create different issues, WWW™ ArxZyme™ products are available in specialized formulations like anaerobic FOG digesters for grease-heavy waste, nitrification enhancers for nitrogen-limited systems and industry-specific blends for breweries, wineries and food processors. If you rent an MBBR system, the bioaugmentation program comes with it — equipment and biology working together from day one.

Advanced Carrier Technology for Rapid Capacity Enhancement

Beyond easily deployable equipment and bioaugmentation technologies, WWW™ miGRATE migrating carrier technology provides another path to compliance. This process intensification (PI) solution integrates into existing treatment infrastructure with minimal engineering and construction requirements.

Operating at fill fractions between 1 and 5%, this technology enhances settleability by reducing sludge volume index (SVI) across both carrier and suspended solids. The carriers — uniformly extruded from renewable biopolymers and hemp fibers — provide consistent biofilm growth surfaces while settling rapidly. This enhanced settling performance is particularly valuable during upset recovery when clarifier capacity becomes constrained.

WWW™ miGRATE  works with our rental systems like WWW™ inDENSE™, unlocking additional benefits. When combined with WWW™ AvN® advanced aeration control system, the integrated platform delivers impressive results, with one Pennsylvania installation recently increasing its capacity while minimizing capital costs and engineering complexity.

Integrated Recovery Support

When treatment upsets threaten your operations, World Water Works combines deep process expertise, rental fleet capabilities, bioaugmentation and advanced process technologies to deliver complete recovery solutions. You receive the technology, the biology and the technical support you need to restore compliance quickly — all from a single partner.

Contact us today to discover how our process and bioaugmentation technologies can help you recover fast and maintain compliance.