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Reduce lagoon sludge without the cost of dredging. Explore proven alternatives including biological treatment, aeration improvements, and smarter sludge management strategies.

Sludge buildup slowly reduces wastewater lagoon treatment capacity. Learn what causes lagoon sludge accumulation and how operators manage solids.

Learn how wastewater lagoon operators extend lagoon lifespan by managing sludge accumulation, improving biology, and preventing treatment capacity loss.

Wastewater lagoons can gradually lose treatment capacity as sludge accumulates. Learn the key warning signs—including rising sludge levels, odor issues, and declining effluent quality—before performance or compliance problems occur.

Compare anaerobic vs aerobic wastewater treatment systems and learn how each impacts sludge accumulation, energy demand, and long-term operational costs.

Sludge accumulation reduces effective lagoon volume long before surface indicators reveal a problem. Learn how to measure sludge depth accurately, compare common methods, and understand why data-driven solids mapping protects treatment capacity and long-term performance.

Seasonal temperature declines reduce biological reaction rates in wastewater lagoons, slowing volatile solids destruction and accelerating sludge accumulation. Without winter monitoring and targeted solids management, facilities risk reduced capacity, odor events, and spring treatment instability.

Microbial technologies are the affordable approach for unlocking the value of wastewater so it shifts from a burden to an opportunity, writes Drylet COO Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi in Water Briefing Global.

How to deal with biosolids? Don’t create them in the first place

As extreme weather events increase, so do the risks associated with Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO).

Microbiology is the most readily available, scalable, affordable, effective technology to remediate sludge through mass-togas conversion, as reported in World Water Magazine (March/April 2020.)

The latest issue of Water & Wastewater Asia Magazine was released today, publishing this feature about Drylet.

Finally, a video that tells you everything you’ve always wanted to know about biosolids pollution from wastewater treatment, and what to do about it through simply harnessing and enhancing the power of nature.

“An award-winning formulation from Drylet helps clean-water plants reduce biosolids volume and significantly reduce operating costs,” reports Treatment Plant Operator in its January 2018 issue.

HOUSTON, Texas (Aug. 7, 2019) – Aqua Assist, the innovative sewage sludge reduction solution by Drylet, was awarded the prestigious Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label.

Microbes can kill us. Drylet CEO Luka Erceg should know: he narrowly escaped with his life in January.

A Purdue University study highlighting that ManureMagic® reduced hydrogen sulfide by as much as 50 percent and odors by 40 percent.

“Nature is the original problem solver, and incorporating inspiration from nature into operations can help reduce the negative externalities from grey infrastructure construction and utilization like chemical contamination,” argues Drylet CEO Luka Erceg.

For the first time, Drylet featured its MB Bio product during the Clean Gulf Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.

UPDATE 12-14-2016: Purdue University Study confirms claims made in WSJ article.

Drylet is excited to announce that ManureMagic® is featured on National Hog Farmer’s New Product Tour 2017.

December 18, 2017 (Houston, TX) – Drylet is proud to welcome Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi as its Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of Operations, effective immediately.

At Drylet, while the safety and well-being of our employees and our customers is always our priority, we also recognize the important role our products play for our valued customers during this critical time. In Houston, Texas, where our corporate headquarters are located, our Mayor issued a stay-home-work-safe order earlier this week.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 25, 2017) – Manure treatment product ManureMagic® is the first commercially available foam-deterrent product that is focused on the prevention of nuisance bacteria that cause foam in swine manure pits.

Houston, Texas (November 9, 2017) – In a letter of intent signed Thursday, Drylet and the private group that operates municipal utilities throughout China commit to forming a joint-venture to sell biocatalysts for wastewater remediation produced by Drylet in the United States.

As Hurricane Harvey was unleashing its fury upon Texas, a Houston-area municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) saw its multi-million-gallons-per-day average flow rate surge 600% to a peak flow that lasted for a full 24 hours. A Drylet customer, the plant wasn’t washed out and remained in compliance.

HOUSTON, Texas (June 8, 2020) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that Drylet’s renewable natural gas (RNG) boosting biocatalyst Bio React AD has no impact on biofuel pathways approved under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) federal program, Drylet announces today.

HOUSTON, Texas — (January 6, 2020) – Drylet, LLC, an award-winning bioremediation technology company with a strong waste-to-energy focus, announced today that Trevor Turbidy is succeeding Luka Erceg as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Drylet CEO Luka Erceg received today the First Prize Certificate and $10,000 award from the Vice Governor of China’s Hubei Province, Mr. Shenglian Guo.

The announcement that his pitch had earned Drylet first place in 2017 InnoSTARS Competition Silicon Valley Division had CEO Luka Erceg leap from his seat with a large smile.

Drylet, LLC a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as animal waste reduction, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today it will be an exhibitor at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Environmental Trade Fair and Conference May 5-6 in Austin, Texas.

Drylet, LLC a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as animal waste reduction, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today it will be an exhibitor at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Environmental Trade Fair and Conference May 5-6 in Austin, Texas.

Drylet, LLC a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as animal waste reduction, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today that it will be showcasing, ManureMagic®, its industry-leading product for animal waste reduction at the American Manure Expo in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, July 14-15, 2015.

Drylet, a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as bioremediation, animal waste reduction, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today it will be attending the Uptech Upstream Oil and Gas Summit in Alberta, Canada from October 6-8.

Drylet Technologies, a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as bioremediation, animal waste reduction, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today the launch timing of its new product website and logo for MB Bio.

Drylet Technologies, a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as animal waste reduction, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today the launch of its new product for the confinement animal production industry, ManureMagic™.

Drylet’s COO Scott Conley and Regional Sales Manager Gary Tomlinson were invited by the president of the Texas Water Utilities Association to present at the organization’s monthly continuing education conference in Port Arthur on December 8th, 2016.

HOUSTON, TEXAS (SEPTEMBER 19, 2018) – Drylet’s award-winning technology Aqua Assist has been selected to rid waterways of algae blooms in Florida.

Drylet, LLC a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as animal waste reduction, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today it will be attending the Iowa Pork Congress from January 28-29, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Each year, the coveted Global Water Awards are presented at the Global Water Summit, a major business conference for the water industry worldwide.

Drylet, LLC, a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for bioremediation, animal waste reduction, wastewater treatment, aquaculture, grease, fat and oil reduction in restaurant kitchen settings, and treatment of other effluent fluid streams, announced today a significant financial investment from Ronald A. Chisholm Limited, a leading international food merchant founded in 1938 in Toronto, Canada.

Drylet, LLC a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as bioremediation, animal waste reduction, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today it will be attending the Uptech Texas Upstream Oil and Gas Summit in Austin, Texas, from October 19 – 21.

Drylet, LLC a biotechnology company providing industry-leading products for use in applications such as bioremediation, animal waste reduction, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and grease, fat and oil reduction in wastewater treatment plants and restaurant kitchen settings, announced today it will be attending the Clean Gulf Conference in San Antonio, Texas from December 2-4.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-- (September 5, 2017) -- Drylet, LLC, a wastewater remediation technology company, announced today that its Aqua Assist product has won a Water Environment Federation (WEF) 2017 Innovative Technology Award.

Drylet CEO Luka Erceg presented at the Rice Alliance Startup Roundup on Monday, the opening day of the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, TX.

In this in-depth interview by Municipal Water Leader’s lead writer John Crotty, Drylet president and CEO Luka Erceg discusses how wastewater solution Aqua Assist came to be, the advantages it has over traditional biosolid remediation techniques, and how it will continue to change the wastewater industry in the future.

The year of 2017 brought major advancements for Drylet.

California Water Service Group (Cal Water), the third largest publicly traded water utility in the United States, and Drylet, a growth-stage wastewater remediation company, today announced a successful trial of a partnership aimed at driving performance in wastewater operations in multiple states using an advanced biocatalyst.

This article in World Water magazine is the first byline by Luka Erceg as the CEO of Drylet.

Annual savings on sludge handling costs were confirmed in a six-month full-scale trial

Drylet today announced a series of steps has been taken to immediately position the Company to achieve profitability and free cash flow.

In Glasgow, Scotland, where the world’s leaders are gathered at COP26 to discuss the global effort to fight climate change, the Solar Impulse Foundation and Bertrand Piccard presented the Scottish government today with new tools to enable them to adopt more ambitious environmental policies.

Drylet, Inc., an innovative biomethane generation technology leader, announced today the closing of its Series A Preferred Stock financing, raising $2.9 million.