Texas Campaign · Phosphorus Removal
Born in Texas.
Built for Texas water.
American Rare Earths · Lone Star Division
Texas is growing faster than its plants can treat. The state is on track to add 73% more people by 2070 — roughly 51.5 million Texans — and every new subdivision, industrial park, and municipal outfall runs straight into a TCEQ TPDES permit and its effluent phosphorus limit. LaNova is based in Texas, and our American rare-earth chemistry lets expanding plants hit ultra-low effluent phosphorus at a fraction of the metal-salt dose — with WET test margin built in. We're the fractional process partner Texas operators call when growth outruns the conventional approach.
Texas watersheds
Where we're working.
Trinity
D/FW metro discharge — tightening TP limits on the upper basin.
Brazos
Longest Texas river — agricultural + municipal nutrient loading driving Gulf hypoxia.
Colorado (TX)
Highland Lakes chain — sensitive recreational & supply watersheds.
San Jacinto
Houston-area outfalls — WET test pressure on the estuary.
Guadalupe
Industrial + municipal discharge feeding San Antonio bay.
Nueces
Coastal bend — Corpus Christi bay nutrient caps.
Growth meets the permit
Texas is exploding.
The plants can't keep up.
The state water plan puts Texas at 51.5 million people by 2070 — a 73% jump — and prices the water and wastewater build-out at $174 billion across more than 3,000 projects. Every expanded facility has to clear a TCEQ TPDES discharge permit, and every one of those permits carries an effluent phosphorus limit. Rare-earth chemistry lets a plant expand capacity without tripping the metal residual that WET testing catches.
Expand, don't fight
Hit the new TP limit on the first permit amendment — not after a seven-year battle.
Protect the receiving water
No residual metal loading the creek, bay, or estuary downstream of the outfall.
Fractional support
Process expertise on call as you scale — not a commodity chemical sale.
The permit landscape · current examples
Dripping Springs
Onion Creek · Hays County
Grew 500% since 2010; wastewater customers up 600% since 2015. Filed for a TPDES discharge permit in 2015, granted 2019, fought a seven-year lawsuit, and cleared the Texas Supreme Court in 2025. Now expanding the South Regional facility from 162,500 to 822,500 GPD — a 406% capacity increase — backed by $53M in TWDB funding.
Hays County
Edwards Aquifer region
Ground zero for Hill Country growth. Decentralized and on-site system permits are up 30% statewide as small towns outpace centralized sewer. Every new subdivision is a new outfall — and a new phosphorus limit to meet.
Statewide (TWDB)
All basins
Texas is projected to grow 73% by 2070 — to roughly 51.5 million people. The state water plan prices the build-out at $174 billion across 3,000+ projects. Expanded wastewater capacity is the gate, and TPDES effluent limits are the choke point.
Sources: TCEQ · TWDB · Community Impact · Texas Supreme Court (2025)
Rare earths vs. metal salts
The bona fide
Texas difference.
| Metric | Al / Fe salts | LaNova rare earths |
|---|---|---|
| Effluent total phosphorus | Higher residual P at standard doses | Ultra-low effluent P at a fraction of the dose |
| Residual metal toxicity | Persistent Al³⁺ stresses the receiving water | Lanthanide residuals drop to non-detect |
| WET test margin | Residual metals push toward a WET failure | Cleaner effluent — real pass margin |
| TDS & chloride loading | Sulfate & chloride drive up effluent TDS | Zero chloride — no TDS increase from coagulant |
| Sludge volume | Bulky metal-hydroxide sludge to haul | Denser, lower-volume precipitate |
How we engage
From jar test to
defensible permit.
01
Profile the Texas plant
We characterize your influent, current coagulant, and the TCEQ permit limits you're working against — TP, WET, and any watershed nutrient cap.
02
Jar test the lanthanide blend
On-site or remote, we run the jar against your water and your targets — tuning dose, pH window, and blend to hit ultra-low P without residual metal.
03
Duplicate at full scale
We translate the jar result to your plant and stand behind the polished effluent — process control, not a one-off compliance check.
04
Verify & hold the margin
We re-run the WET panel and confirm the pass margin holds across daily swings. The goal is a stable, defensible permit — not a single pass.