WEFTEC Guide for Texas

A working guide to WEFTEC for Texas water and wastewater plants and the engineers who spec for them.

WEFTEC 2026 · Coming up

New Orleans, LA — Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Registration and the official floor plan are at the official show site.

September 26–30, 2026
Conference Dates
September 28–30, 2026
Expo Floor Dates
New Orleans, LA
Location
Last updated: 2026-09-01
The basics

WEFTEC 2026 at a Glance

The floor is open for less of the week than the conference, and the floor is where the equipment lives. Below is sorted by plant problem, not vendor. Start with yours.

Build your route

What to See: Start With the Problem You Have

About a thousand companies exhibit at WEFTEC. Sixteen of the thirty lines we represent will have a booth on the exhibition floor this year, grouped below by the problem they solve — start with the one you came to fix, and your route builds itself.

Four problems we hear most often from Texas plants, each with the booth numbers to walk straight to. For the full exhibitor list, use WEF’s official exhibitor directory and floor plan — it is complete, it is free, and we are not going to reproduce it here.

Headworks & Screening

Your headworks is passing rags and grit downstream

Everything downstream pays for what headworks lets through. If your crew is pulling rags off pumps, clearing a channel by hand, or watching grit accumulate where it should not, the conversation is about screening capture and about what can physically be retrofitted into the channel you already have. Ask about retrofit geometry early — it eliminates options faster than anything else.

Blowers & Aeration

Your blowers are eating power, or you can't hold DO in August

Aeration is usually the largest electrical load at the plant, and summer is when the margin disappears. Two different conversations live here: the machine (blower type, turndown, controls) and the transfer (diffuser type, condition, fouling). Bring your actual low-flow night numbers, not the design point — that is where the differences show up.

Biosolids, Dewatering & Conveyance

Your dewatering is aging out and hauling costs are climbing

Dewatering is where an operating budget quietly gets eaten. Every point of cake solids you gain is volume you do not pay to haul, so the equipment conversation and the hauling contract conversation are the same conversation. What happens either side of the press belongs here too — what you do to the sludge before it arrives changes what the press can achieve, and getting cake out of the building is its own problem again. Bring a recent sludge characterisation if you have one; without it nobody can tell you anything useful, and the honest vendors will say so.

Filtration, Basins & Tanks

You need more capacity and you don't have more land

When the fence line is fixed, capacity has to come out of footprint. That is either a higher-rate process in the same area, or getting more out of the tankage you already have rather than pouring new concrete — new internals in an existing basin, or a cover over one that is causing you a second problem. Every one of those paths has a real trade-off in operator workload, and the trade-off is usually the part that does not make it into the brochure.

Not sure which lane you are in? Tell us the problem and we will tell you which three stands are worth your time — and which ones are not. Ask us what you should see →
The part we can do for you

Meet Vision Equipment at WEFTEC

The floor gets you a conversation with whoever is standing at the stand. We can usually get you twenty minutes with the product manager — the person who can answer whether the thing will work in your basin. Tell us what you are trying to solve and who you want to talk to, and we will set it up before you arrive.

Your Texas rep — by territory

Central Texas
San Antonio
East Texas
Houston
Hershel Ezzell, Jr. P.E.
Keisha Antoine Ph.D., P.E.
North Texas
Dallas / Fort Worth
Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg
West Texas
Amarillo
Marketing & Operations
Additional Offices
Abby Bartlett
Ian Roberts

Book time with us

Tell us your plant and what you are trying to solve. We will come back with a proposed time — on the floor if you are going, at your plant if you are not.

Would rather not fill in a form? Call or text your territory rep above.

    Specifying a project? Start here. These go straight to the technical material:

    Book time with us at WEFTEC

    Tell us the problem you are carrying into the show and we will line up the right conversations before you get there — and tell you honestly which stands are not worth your time.

    Not going? That is most people. We will bring the walkthrough to your plant.