Water Treatment: Sediment, Filtration & Dosing Solutions
United Rentals provides engineered water treatment solutions to test, treat and manage sediment, turbidity and contaminants from dewatering and bypass systems before discharge. We start by assessing your site's water quality against your discharge requirements, then recommend the right combination of clarification, filtration or dosing to meet compliance requirements.
Our fleet includes sediment tanks, clarification systems and chemical dosing units, supported by our in-house engineering team and remote telemetry monitoring.
- Water quality testing and assessment against discharge requirements
- Sediment and turbidity clarification for dewatering and bypass discharge water
- Media filtration for a range of contaminants, including activated carbon, sand and ion exchange resin
- Chemical dosing systems for flocculation and treatment
- Sediment tanks for storage and settling across multiple feed locations
- Remote telemetry monitoring of treatment performance
- Engineered design support to help meet discharge requirements
Discharging untreated water from an excavation, basement or sewer bypass can breach your discharge licence or trade waste agreement, risking delays, fines or a stop-work notice. Our teams assess your site's water quality and design a treatment system that gets it within limits before it leaves site.
Services
Water Quality Testing & Assessment
Our team tests your site's water against your discharge licence or trade waste requirements before recommending a treatment method, so you're not paying for equipment you don't need.
Sediment & Turbidity Clarification
Our Lamella clarification tanks treat total suspended solids and turbidity, with a sludge settling hopper for gravity thickening and removal.
Media Filtration
Our Kraken media filters can be loaded with activated carbon, sand, glass or ion exchange resin, selected to suit the contaminants present in your site water.
Chemical Dosing
Our dosing pods provide chemical dosing for flocculation and treatment, with PLC-based controls and no chemical storage inside the pod for site safety.
Sediment Storage & Settling
Our sediment tanks provide stackable storage and settling capacity across multiple feed locations, including support for managing vac truck load cycles.
Telemetry & Remote Monitoring
Treatment systems can be fitted with remote telemetry, giving your team visibility of performance without needing constant site presence.
Industries We Support
- Civil construction and utility infrastructure
- Water authorities and council sewer maintenance
- Mining and quarry site water management
- Environmental remediation and groundwater treatment
- Government and defence infrastructure projects
Frequently Asked Questions
We test your site water first. The result tells us whether you need clarification for sediment, filtration for specific contaminants, dosing to improve settling, or a combination, rather than defaulting to a standard package.
In most cases, yes. Discharging to stormwater or sewer without treatment can breach your discharge licence or trade waste agreement. Our team assesses your site's water quality against your discharge requirements before recommending a system.
Stormwater discharge is typically governed by an EPA licence or council conditions, while discharge to sewer usually requires a trade waste agreement with your local water authority. Requirements differ by state and by site, so we assess this on a project-by-project basis.
Yes, our sediment tanks, clarification systems and dosing units are designed to work alongside our pump and pipeline fleet, so treatment and pumping can be supplied as one system.
We generally use clarification tanks to settle out solids, sometimes supported by chemical dosing to improve settling, before passing the water through media filtration if further polishing is required.
Yes, our treatment systems can be applied to water from both ground dewatering and sewer bypass operations, though the treatment approach depends on the contaminants present.
Cost depends on the treatment method required, flow rate, hire duration and whether dosing or filtration is included. Contact us with your site's water quality and discharge requirements for a tailored quote.
Yes, our telemetry systems allow remote tracking of treatment performance, reducing the need for constant on-site monitoring.
