OWOS Collaborative Solutions

Engineered for Synergy. Built for Watershed-Scale Impact.

The real power of OurWaters & OurSoils (OWOS) is not any single product. It’s how our platforms work together. OWOS integrates engineered hydraulics, distributed treatment media, and biologic enhancements into collaborative systems that transform passive infrastructure and natural conveyances into active treatment assets.

These multi-platform solutions unlock layered performance and broad-spectrum impact—reducing nutrients, organic loading, toxics, and hypoxia drivers with fewer inputs, faster implementation, and scalable deployment across municipal, agricultural, industrial, and natural systems.

OWOS Collaborative Solution Stacks

  • Nutrient Removal & Water Polishing System

Components: Flo-Water™ + AquaFlex® + BioFlex™ + Hi-Carbon™ Biochar + Natura Solve™ + Nutri-Flo™

What It Does:
An integrated polishing system that combines exchange media, carbon adsorption, and biologic conditioning to reduce nutrients, organics, and toxics while improving clarity and downstream water quality.

Outcomes:

  • Reduces nitrates and phosphates driving eutrophication

  • Lowers turbidity, suspended solids, and organic toxins

  • Attenuates hydrocarbons, metals, and select emerging contaminants through carbon interaction

  • Improves clarity and reduces downstream treatment burden

Ideal Applications:
Municipal lagoons, agricultural runoff ponds, tile outlets, reservoirs, and surface waters

Program Alignment:
Grant-ready for watershed restoration, nutrient reduction strategies, and municipal compliance programs

  • Circular Dewatering & Sludge Treatment System

Components: Pump-It Tube + Natura Solve + Chitosan + BioFlex and/or Hi-Carbon Biochar

What It Does:
A circular, treatment-forward dewatering system that conditions water and solids during dredging, wastewater handling, manure management, and biosolid processing—enabling reuse, volume reduction, and odor control.

Outcomes:

  • Treats and conditions dredge water, wastewater, manure, and biosolids at discharge

  • Reduces volume, odor, nutrients, TOC, and contaminant loading

  • Enables stackable media configurations for phased treatment and recovery

  • Supports beneficial reuse pathways and circular management strategies

Use Cases:
Dredging operations, wastewater facilities, manure lagoons, biosolid processing, and site remediation

  • Stormwater & Infrastructure Protection System

Components: EZ-Catch (Man), EZ-Catch Pro + EZ-Flo and AquaFlex &/or BioFlex Inserts

What It Does:
Converts stormwater inlets, conveyances, and perimeter controls into distributed treatment assets by integrating exchange and carbon media into existing protection systems.

Outcomes:

  • Two-layer protection: physical interception + media-based treatment

  • Reduces sediment, hydrocarbons, nutrients, metals, and urban runoff pollutants

  • Improves MS4 performance and NPDES compliance outcomes

  • Extends the function of standard BMPs into true treatment systems

Proven In:
Municipal MS4 programs, DOT corridors, industrial facilities, and redevelopment sites

Design Advantage:
Modular systems retrofit into existing infrastructure with serviceable, replaceable media

  • Passive Hypoxia & Nutrient Management System

Components: AquaFlex + BioFlex (B, IX, or BIX variants)

What It Does:
A distributed media system engineered to address the root drivers of hypoxia by reducing organic loading, nutrient availability, TOC, and contaminant stress while improving oxygen transfer and redox conditions at the sediment–water interface.

Outcomes:

  • Enhances oxygen transfer and biological digestion in low-O₂ zones

  • Reduces biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total organic carbon (TOC)

  • Adsorbs dissolved nutrients (nitrates, phosphates) via carbon-based media

  • Intercepts hydrocarbons, oils, and hydrophobic organic contaminants

  • Binds metals and attenuates select emerging contaminants (including PFAS), site-dependent

  • Improves water clarity and light penetration by capturing fine particulates and turbidity

Deployment:
Lakes, streams, detention basins, reservoirs, and low-flow zones

Monitoring:
Paired with dissolved oxygen, nutrient, TOC, and site-specific analyte monitoring to verify recovery trajectories and support regulatory compliance

  • Integrated Flo-Water + AquaFlex Systems

Turning Stormwater Infrastructure into Distributed Treatment Assets

OWOS integrates AquaFlex exchange media & BioFlex carbon media directly into Flo-Water delivery platforms to transform traditional stormwater controls into active nutrient, TOC, and hydrocarbon capture systems:

  • EZ-Flo Flex: Magnetic storm drain cover embedded with AquaFlex for passive nutrient, TOC, and hydrocarbon interception in high-traffic inlet locations.

  • EZ-Catch Flex: Catch basin filtration insert with AquaFlex PomPoms to capture fine sediments, oils, nutrients, and organic load in urban runoff.

  • EZ-Catch Pro Flex: Heavy-duty inlet protection system upgraded with AquaFlex PomPoms for enhanced pollutant reduction at industrial & DOT sites.

  • Hi-Flo Silt Fence Flex: Perimeter control fence integrating perforated AquaFlex to intercept nutrients, hydrocarbons, metals, and fine particulates during flow-through events in ditches and disturbed soils.

System Benefits:

  • Converts passive BMPs into distributed treatment systems

  • Enhances pollutant capture across stormwater networks

  • Supports MS4/NPDES compliance and watershed nutrient strategies

  • Enables rapid retrofit and scalable field deployment

Target Applications:
Urban inlets • Construction perimeters • Ditch checks & sediment basins • Industrial runoff zones • DOT stormwater retrofits

  • AquaFlex + BioFlex (Patented Combination)

Passive Hypoxia & Nutrient Management — Distributed Media Stack

Purpose
AquaFlex & BioFlex creates a next-generation, nature-based treatment stack that unites exchange, adsorption, and redox conditioning into a single, serviceable media architecture. This system is designed to passively capture nutrients, TOC, hydrocarbons, metals, toxins, and algae-associated compounds at the source—supporting scalable, regenerative treatment across infrastructure and natural systems.

Core Media Functions:

AquaFlex
High–surface-area, open-cell exchange media that captures suspended solids, oils, turbidity, and algae-associated particulates—reducing organic loading and improving oxygen transfer.

BioFlex
Encapsulated biochar media engineered for hydraulic environments that conditions redox dynamics at the sediment–water interface while binding dissolved nutrients and organics—supporting long-term hypoxia and nutrient management.

Hi-Carbon Biochar
Microporous carbon media that adsorbs nitrates, phosphates, metals, hydrocarbons, and organic toxins—lowering dissolved nutrient and contaminant loads that drive eutrophication and oxygen depletion.

Nature-based & Passive:

  • No power required

  • Mimics natural filtration and biogeochemical processes

  • Regenerative, serviceable, and scalable

Flexible Deployment:
Stormwater outfalls • Agricultural ditches & tile outlets • Sediment basins • Wetlands & shorelines • Construction dewatering

Integrated with OWOS Platforms:
EZ-Catch, EZ-Catch Pro, EZ-Flo Flex, and Pump-It Tube systems

  • Odor & Air Quality Control Stack

Components: OurAir + Natura Solve + Biochar + BDX (Chloride Free) Dust Control

What It Does: An integrated odor, dust, and emissions management system for agricultural and industrial environments that combines biologic conditioning with carbon-based adsorption.

Outcomes:

  • Suppresses odor and volatile emissions at CAFOs, lagoons, and composting sites

  • Reduces dust and particulate release with minimal runoff risk

  • Creates biologically active surface coverage for sustained odor control

Deployment:

  • Surface-applied or delivered through Pump-It Tube systems for controlled distribution

  • Integrated Flo-Water + AquaFlex Systems

  • Turning Stormwater Infrastructure into Treatment Assets