Drinking Water
From Source to Tap: Engineering Safe, Reliable Water
Drinking water is one of your community's most vital resources. Unreliable supplies threaten public health, economic development, and quality of life. Water scarcity, in terms of both quality and quantity, is challenging our infrastructure. Population increases strain existing supplies, while tightening regulations raise the bar for treatment and compliance. RETTEW has spent decades working alongside communities and regulatory agencies to address these challenges head-on, from locating and developing water sources through designing, permitting, and managing treatment and distribution systems.
Your drinking water system faces constant pressure. Aging infrastructure, tightening regulations, and growing demand rarely arrive on a convenient schedule — and decisions made without a full picture of your system can compound those challenges. RETTEW supports you from the earliest stages, conducting feasibility studies, hydraulic modeling and analysis, and GIS-based maintenance management to give you a clear picture of your system conditions and needs before design begins. Treatment design follows from that understanding, drawing on ion exchange, membrane and sand filtration, flocculation and settling, and disinfection systems including ultraviolet, ozone, and chlorine to address both conventional challenges and emerging contaminant requirements. Beyond treatment, we design the distribution systems that deliver it — water storage tanks, booster pump stations, and piping networks sized and configured for long-term performance. For projects requiring integrated delivery, RETTEW's engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services carry that responsibility from initial design through system startup, streamlining project delivery and keeping accountability exactly where it belongs.
Beyond design and construction, RETTEW provides the operational and financial support you need to keep systems running and budgets in check. Our team assists with regulatory compliance, annual reporting, operations consulting, and rate studies that reflect true system costs and funding realities. We help you identify and pursue state and federal financing programs, and structure your projects for grant eligibility to minimize ratepayer impact while maintaining compliance with Safe Drinking Water Act requirements and evolving regulatory standards.
Whether you are expanding capacity, replacing aging infrastructure, addressing compliance mandates, or upgrading treatment systems, RETTEW brings the multidisciplinary expertise and regulatory knowledge to move your projects from feasibility through completion efficiently and cost-effectively.