Water and wastewater infrastructure for northern New Mexico.
Planning, engineering, construction, and operations for municipalities, pueblos, counties, school districts, and water associations — one team for the entire life of a project.

- 01Headworks & screening · Rebuilt
- 02SCADA monitoring & control · New system
- 03Effluent lagoon · Relined
- 04Accumulated solids · Pumped & removed
- 05Treatment · 50,000 gpd · Operated by S3W
- 01Plan
- Studies, design, and owner's-representative support.
- 02Build
- Design-Build, CMAR, and self-performed construction.
- 03Operate
- NMED-certified operators, through Level IV.
- Years of combined experience
- 100+
- Years of combined experience
- Years our principals have worked together
- ~30
- Years our principals have worked together
- Clients under active contract
- 7
- Clients under active contract
- NMED-certified operators
- Level IV
- NMED-certified operators
One team for the whole life of a project.
From the first planning study through construction, startup, operator training, and decades of operation — so facilities are designed by people who know how to run them.
Water Infrastructure
Treatment, wells, storage, and distribution — from new facilities to emergency repairs on aging systems.
Wastewater Infrastructure
Treatment plants of every size, collection systems, and reuse — designed by people who also run them.
Engineering & Construction
Planning and design through self-performed construction, Design-Build, CMAR, and owner's representation.
Operations & Maintenance
Contract and on-call operation of water and wastewater systems by NMED-certified operators, through Level IV.
Trusted by public owners across the north.
Cities, pueblos, state agencies, schools, and utilities that rely on S3W today.
- Cities & counties
- City of Santa Fe · Rio Arriba County
- Pueblos & tribal enterprises
- Tesuque Development Corporation · Cochiti Community Development Corporation
- State agencies & schools
- Española Public Schools District · New Mexico State Parks
- Utilities & private owners
- Santa Fe Opera · Ranchland Utility
Plants we run, systems we build, owners we advise.
A few of the projects S3W is delivering for clients across northern New Mexico.
Replacement WWTP — Owner's Representative
Owner's Representative / Design-Basis Advisory
Santa Fe Opera WWTP — Operations & Maintenance
Operations & Maintenance
Cochiti WWTP Rehabilitation
Self-performed rehabilitation + ongoing O&M
Rooted in northern New Mexico.
Water, wastewater, and infrastructure work across Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Colfax, and San Juan counties — for pueblos, mutual domestics, municipalities, school districts, and state agencies.
Latest from S3W.
S3W selected for Dixon Elementary septic Design-Build
We're designing and building a new septic tank and leach field to replace the failing system at Dixon Elementary School.
Cochiti WWTP rehabilitation finished on schedule with zero change orders
A six-month rehabilitation of the Village of Cochiti's 50,000-gpd plant, now operated by S3W's certified operators.
Have a water or wastewater project?
Talk with the people who will design, build, and operate it.