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Water & Wastewater Automation

Modern, end-to-end water and wastewater control systems for municipalities, public utilities, and industrial operators—engineered to maximize reliability and reduce operational risk.
Water And Wastewater

Don’t Let Bad Tech Muddy the Waters

20 Years in the Biz
100 Industrial Water Projects
1 Residences Served
The 90s are calling. They want their old SCADA systems back. When it comes to water treatment and management, outdated and disparate systems can make you feel like you’re barely keeping your head above water. Luckily, centralized control and data management are waiting for you downstream.

Our cutting-edge automation and SCADA solutions enhance performance, reliability, and security by making your systems more standardized, intuitive and informative. In other words, you can easily see, control and keep track of exactly what’s going on. And you can make better maintenance and strategic decisions based on historical data. That's the advantage of modern control systems for critical water operations.
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  • Intuitive, Operator-friendly Screens
  • Streamlined Maintenance
  • World-class Cybersecurity

Our Water Solutions

Whether you're in need of pump station control and reporting, upgrades to legacy infrastructure, or modernized hardware and software, we’ve got you covered.

Master Planning

We evaluate your existing infrastructure, envision your ideal system, and develop a roadmap to stage and implement your plan over time. Screens are prototyped and tested in parallel prior to cutover to ensure function without disrupting operations.

SCADA Systems

Simplify plant monitoring and control with dynamic data analysis, smart alarming and intuitive operator screens. We design for pump stations, lift stations, reverse osmosis filtration, UV systems, industrial wastewater plants and more.

Plant Control

We deliver turnkey automation solutions including system-level design, UL control panel design & building, remote telemetry, PLC / SCADA / HMI programming, and commissioning. With clean interfaces and high performance HMIs, operators will quickly get up to speed.

Networking & Cybersecurity

Maintain the security of your critical infrastructure networks with expert design, implementation, and OT maintenance services from Vertech. Implement cybersecurity best practices and meet NERC CIP requirements.
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Blender overview screen created for the Alameda County Water District.
Chemical feed screen created for the Alameda County Water District.
On-line report screen created for the Alameda County Water District.
RO process overview screen created for the City of Santa Monica.
Aeration basin screen created for the City of Santa Monica.
Overview screen created for the City of Santa Monica.
Pressure filter overview screen created for the City of Santa Monica.
Report data screen created for Warren County Water District.
Water treatment plant overview screen created for Warren County Water District.

Who we Serve

Water is such a fluid term, so here's what we mean when we say we do water and wastewater automation. Simply put, we build solutions tailored to your specific plant and community. We’re experts at stepping into existing brownfield facilities and upgrading them while keeping the water flowing. Whether you’re dealing with a mixed-vendor setup or legacy PLCs that have been running forever, we design our cutovers so your live operations don't miss a drop.
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Municipal
Water

• Treatment plants
• Distribution systems
• SCADA modernization
• Pump station telemetry
• Reporting and visibility

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Industrial
Water

• Wastewater discharge
• Water reuse systems
• Environmental compliance
• Historian integration
• Production uptime

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Wastewater Utilities

• Lift station monitoring
• Alarm management
• Treatment systems
• Operator dashboards
• Remote visibility

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Government Infrastructure

• Procurement ready
• Documentation standards
• Long-term support
• Delivery discipline

Choosing the Right Water & Wastewater Controls Integrator

Picking an integrator for public water infrastructure is a big decision. At the end of the day, you aren’t just buying engineering hours—you’re choosing someone to touch critical assets, help you navigate public procurement scrutiny, and build a system that stands the test of time.

Our goal is to hand over a system your operators actually enjoy using, and one your team can easily manage without needing to call us every time a screen blinks.

We also know that real-world water plants are rarely textbook-perfect. You’ve probably got Rockwell running next to Siemens, and legacy PLCs running logic that hasn't been touched in a decade. We get it, and we won’t ask you to rip it all out. We work with what you have, design around it, and make sure the transition is smooth so the water keeps flowing.

 

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Some Of Our Projects

Vertech harnessed the power of Ignition Perspective to significantly enhance the SCADA system and improve operations across 131 separate stations for Warren County Water District.
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Alameda County Water District implemented a modern, scalable SCADA system. Vertech processed over 2 billion rows of data to bring their 21 years of historical reporting into the new, modular enterprise system.
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 A forward-thinking provider of environmental services set out to recycle their client’s wastewater onsite and turned to Vertech to help bring their first-of-its-kind pilot system to life. 
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Water & Wastewater Companies We’ve Worked With
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Why Vertech?

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  • Specialized water & wastewater team
  • Keep your operations running during upgrades
  • Industrial networking & cybersecurity experts
  • Needs focused, not task focused
  • Ignition & AVEVA Certified
  • Your trusted long-term ally

Our Method to Reduce Risks

Every Vertech water project is piped through our 5D Process: a structured five-phase approach that takes you from initial scoping through long-term support. We start by getting alignment on objectives and requirements before a single line of code is written. From there we move through collaborative design, development with ongoing checkpoints, and rigorous shop testing before anything touches your live system. Commissioning is planned, not improvised. We don't just throw open the floodgates, so when we hand over the keys your operators are trained and your documentation is complete. Then we stick around to support you.

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Ready to take control?

Say goodbye to old tech and wave hello to a secure future.

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Does Vertech actually specialize in water and wastewater, or do they just claim general automation experience?

Water and wastewater isn't a just another line item on Vertech's capability brochure. While a generic integrator might automate anything they can swing a wrench at, Vertech's dedicated team focuses on the specific compliance, public safety, and operational stakes that come with critical water infrastructure. Your system deserves more than someone who Googled your industry on the way to the kickoff meeting.

Can Vertech handle a water/wastewater modernization project without starting from scratch?

Yes — and honestly, this is where a lot of integrators fall short. Vertech is built for the messy reality of live facilities:

  • Brownfield cutovers on systems that can't go offline
  • Mixed-vendor control environments and aging PLCs
  • Upgrades that have to work around active operations

Here's how we Modernize Water and Wastewater Facilities without Disrupting Operations.

How do we know Vertech has the technical depth to back up what they promise?

That's a fair question with so much at stake. Plenty of vendors name-drop platforms without proof. Vertech's capability spans the full stack:

  • PLC and SCADA programming
  • Panel fabrication
  • Cybersecurity
  • Commissioning discipline

We maintain advanced certifications and integrator partnership status.

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What's the real risk of going with a cheaper integrator or our existing controls vendor?

A vendor who only responds to what you ask for won't necessarily deliver what you truly need. Vertech invests in understanding your facility's goals, constraints, and operator realities before writing a line of code or pulling a single wire. That means fewer surprises at go-live, a system your team actually trusts, and support that doesn't evaporate once the project closes. 

 

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