RA Basin denitrification pilot
Laws Whiskey HouseCarbon-rich distillery waste feeds the microbes that remove nitrogen, reducing reliance on methanol and cutting operating costs — a circular partnership with a community discharger.
Interactive pilot map
Eleven pilots, on the map and in the list
Select a numbered pin to highlight its project card, or filter by focus area. The list always matches the map, so the same information reaches keyboard and screen-reader users.
Illustrative plan view, not survey data. Addendum 1 confirms no GIS datasets exist for the current PARC map; SPR maintains it by hand. This demo keeps that simple staff-editable model: markers are placed visually in the WordPress editor, and the accessible list below always carries the same information.
Built for how SPR actually updates it
- Three fields per project — name, associated company, and a brief description, matching the minimum fields in Addendum 1.
- Quarterly to bi-annual updates — the cadence SPR reports today. Staff edit a project entry once; map, list, and search all update.
- No GIS required — pins are simple visual placements, not coordinates, so the map stays as easy to maintain as the current one.
- Accessible by default — every pin is a real button, every project a real card, and filtering announces its results to screen readers.
Filtering and search here go beyond the Addendum 1 minimum, which calls them desired rather than required.
Showing all 11 pilot projects.
Low-temperature CO2 methanation
NREL + University of VirginiaNickel-based catalysts convert the carbon-dioxide fraction of biogas into methane, so more of the gas the process produces comes back as renewable natural gas.
Utility Diagnostic Tool
Hazen and SawyerA leadership framework that began on the back of a napkin, now helping utility managers match the right goals to the right roles across their organizations.
Direct potable reuse pilot trailer
Colorado School of MinesA first-of-its-kind mobile DPR trailer hosted at PARC: carbon-based advanced treatment plus reverse osmosis, run as a testbed for water-reuse technology.
Project Green 2025
Breckenridge BreweryA Helles lager brewed with 100% purified water from the Mines DPR trailer, launched for World Environment Day 2025 with proceeds supporting river conservation.
Polymer reduction pilot
SPR OperationsCan biosolids be concentrated without polymer? An SPR engineer's question became a data-backed pilot to cut chemical costs — now moving to its next phase.
PdNA pilot
Tetra Tech (master plan)A groundbreaking on-site nitrogen-removal pilot, paired with a master plan built around flexibility so SPR adopts proven technology at exactly the right time.
Sidestream EBPR fermenter pilot
Carollo EngineersA joint pilot that converted existing infrastructure into a dedicated fermenter — a path toward biological phosphorus removal with less long-term chemical reliance.
Facility Asset Renewal Marketplace
SPR MaintenanceFARM turns one utility's surplus equipment into another's solution. The platform won the RMWEA Innovative Water Technologies Shark Tank Competition.
Wastewater public-health surveillance
CDPHE partnershipSamples from SPR's laboratory help Colorado detect viruses and pathogens circulating in communities — often before clinical testing shows a rise in cases.
Biosolids land-application research
Colorado State UniversityA long-standing SPR–CSU collaboration, with test plots and decades of soil research backing the beneficial reuse of biosolids on Colorado farmland.
A working research campus inside a working facility
PARC was purpose-built so SPR could pilot new water-renewal technology in real conditions. The PARC Innovation Flow podcast has documented its projects publicly since 2024, from a distillery-waste denitrification pilot to a first-of-its-kind direct potable reuse trailer. The redesigned PARC page turns that work into something residents can explore: a map, a filterable project list, and the stories behind each pilot.
- ~40Active projects in SPR's inventory (RFP Addendum 1)
- 11Pilots on the map, drawn from public podcast episodes
- 19Innovation Flow episodes since October 2024
- 9+Hours of public audio, searchable in this prototype
Project facts on this page come from SPR's public PARC Innovation Flow podcast feed, checked June 9, 2026. The production site manages the full ~40-project inventory.
Beyond the test pads
More research stories from the podcast
Not every Innovation Flow conversation is a pilot on the map. The podcast also takes SPR's questions on the road — to WEFTEC, to peer utilities, and to the researchers shaping what comes next.
- How PARC was created and constructedS1E1 · live from WEFTEC · Oct 2024
- Can biochar solve the PFAS problem?S1E7 · Brown and Caldwell · Jul 2025
- What does it take to innovate?S1E9 · SPR's Engineering and PARC Manager · Sep 2025
- Why R&D keeps rates lowBonus · Hampton Roads Sanitation District + SPR · Aug 2025
- Data science & forever chemicalsS1E11 · live from WEFTEC 2025 · Nov 2025
- Utilities must lead the innovation chargeS1E12 · VCS Denmark · Dec 2025
- SPR Safe: empowering safetyS2E3 · SPR Operations & Maintenance · Apr 2026
- Clean Water 2.0S2E5 · BluTerra · Jun 2026
Public research, public storytelling
Every project card above links to the episode that documents it, so curiosity has somewhere to go. Episodes embed from SPR's existing Pinecast feed.
Keep exploring
Hear every pilot from the people running it
All 19 episodes of PARC Innovation Flow are embedded and searchable in this prototype, and the Project Green story shows how PARC content becomes dynamic public storytelling.
public episodes documenting PARC