Compliance, delivered by nature’s oldest water filtration system.

HWT harnesses peat, nature’s oldest water filtration media, engineered into a simple, cost-effective treatment solution.

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“For the past 12 years, I’ve been using APTsorb/APTivator in multiple treatment systems for clients. We’ve had great success in reducing copper and zinc concentrations to below benchmark levels from both downspout filtration and end of pipe filtration using your media and our clients love the extended maintenance interval compared to some other medias. Using your media has provided our clients with overall peace of mind in a highly regulated environment.”

Chad Wiggins, PE
Catchment Solutions

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We can help in one specific area or we can lead your project from end-to-end… you choose.

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APTsorb

APTsorb is our proprietary reed sedge peat, powered by the reed, making it distinct from other peat types due to its higher content of fibrous plant material, making it exceptionally effective for binding heavy metals and other contaminants.

APTIVATOR

The same engineered peat just in spherical form for precision flow and system efficiency - delivering consistent performance in applications that demand optimal contact, packing, and pressure control.

Our Story…

Peat primarily exists to protect our lakes, rivers, and streams from heavy metal runoff.  It accomplishes this through its innate ion-exchange properties that selectively bonds to heavy metals in solution.  Knowing this, APT set out in its early days to invent an insoluble media that would mimic the properties of naturally occurring reed sedge peat.  From those R&D efforts, the APTsorb™ Water Treatment Media was born.  Headwater Technologies (HWT), APT’s wholly owned subsidiary, is the sole provider of this one-of-its-kind peat-based media.  Since its inception in 2021, HWT has responded to customer demand by growing into a full end-to-end water solutions provider, offering design, construction, and operations services in addition to its broad product portfolio, which in addition to APTsorb, includes a variety of the highest quality resins, carbons, and other treatment medias responsibly sourced throughout the world.