Smart Sponge® | Engineered for Real-World Water

Today’s Water Quality Challenges Require Smarter Treatment.

Smart Sponge® is a water filtration media engineered to target challenging contaminants, including PFAS, heavy metals, hydrocarbons, bacteria, and nutrients, delivering high-flow, low-maintenance treatment without pumps, power, or costly infrastructure upgrades.

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Years

30,000

Installations

States

20+

Patents

100%

Made in the USA

Treatment Applications

Built for Your Infrastructure. Designed for Your Water Quality Goals.

Stormwater

Support SWPPP, MS4, and NPDES Compliance

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Industrial / Municipal Wastewater

Improve Discharge and Reuse Performance

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Marinas & Boatyards

Protect Water Quality Around Active Waterfronts

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The Smart Sponge® advantage

Meet Today’s Requirements Without Limiting Tomorrow’s Options.

As water quality requirements become more complex, you need treatment that goes beyond sediment control. Smart Sponge® targets priority contaminants while supporting high flow rates, reducing maintenance demands, and fitting into both new and existing infrastructure.

Technician in high-visibility gear installing Smart Sponge filtration media in a stormwater treatment system.

Passive Operation

Treat stormwater and other water flows without pumps, power, or complex mechanical equipment.

No backwashing required

Eliminate the water use, equipment, and operational demands associated with backwashing.

Designed for new systems and retrofits

Specify Smart Sponge® in new infrastructure or integrate it into existing catch basins, vaults, outfalls, pressure vessels, and treatment systems.

High flow. Low maintenance.

The high-porosity structure supports high flow rates while helping reduce clogging, cleaning, and maintenance demands.

Built to evolve

Change or combine media as contaminants, site conditions, regulations, treatment goals change, without replacing the entire system.

Lower disposal and lifecycle costs

Low moisture retention reduces spent-media weight and associated handling, transportation, and disposal costs compared with traditional high-moisture retaining media.

Targeted Contaminant Treatment

Match the Media to Your Water Quality Priorities.

Every site has a different mix of contaminants, flow conditions, and discharge requirements. Smart Sponge® media can be selected and combined to address multiple treatment objectives within a single system.

Smart Sponge®
Sediment & TSS
Targets suspended solids and sediment through a high-porosity structure designed to capture particulates while maintaining flow and reducing maintenance demands.
Smart Sponge®
Hydrocarbons & oil
Captures oil, grease, and hydrocarbons that contribute to sheens and degraded water quality.
Smart Sponge® HM
Heavy metals
Targets lead, iron, arsenic, selenium, zinc, copper, and other metals using contaminant-specific media.
Smart Sponge® HM
Nutrients
Helps reduce nutrient loading associated with harmful algal blooms and impaired waterways.
Smart Sponge® Plus
Bacteria
Targets E. coli and coliform to support safer discharge and receiving-water quality.
Smart Sponge® Quanta™
PFAS
Engineered to capture per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds from contaminated water.
Smart Sponge® AC
Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
Adsorbs dissolved and suspended organic compounds that contribute to elevated TOC, helping improve water quality and support discharge and treatment objectives.