What Bio-nomic Services does

Bio-nomic Services, Inc. is a US-based environmental infrastructure maintenance contractor headquartered in Belmont, North Carolina, with a regional office in Brunswick, Georgia. Founded in 1990 and operating as a subsidiary of Carylon Corporation — a nationwide conglomerate of 14 specialized environmental maintenance companies — Bio-nomic provides sewer system maintenance, hydraulic dredging, residuals dewatering, pipeline inspection and rehabilitation, digester cleaning, biosolids land application, excavation, and ash/residual hauling and disposal. The company serves municipalities, public and private utilities, industrial companies (power, paper, petrochemical), and engineering firms across all 50 states, leveraging Carylon's shared equipment fleet of hundreds of specialty units and over 150 TV inspection trucks.

The company's technology stack centers on capital-intensive physical infrastructure: portable GPS-equipped hydraulic dredges capable of 32-foot reach and 2,000 gallons-per-minute sludge removal, multi-sensor pipeline inspection robots combining HD CCTV, sonar, and laser profiling for continuous 6,000-foot surveys, acoustic blockage-detection systems that rate severity on a 0-10 scale in under three minutes, cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) lining for trenchless rehabilitation of 6-inch to 3-foot diameter pipes, and chemical grout infiltration-control methods developed with NASSCO-ICGC standardized practices. Inspection data is captured against NASSCO PACP standards and delivered as structured reports. An in-house grouting test cell, constructed in 2016, supports method validation. President Pete Fleetwood, who has led the company since Carylon's acquisition in 1990 and received the inaugural NASSCO-ICGC Harold Kosova Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, anchors institutional knowledge in chemical grouting and trenchless rehabilitation.

Bio-nomic operates on a project-based professional services revenue model with quote-driven, contract-specific pricing and a bondable capacity of $40 million per single project. Notable project values include a $3.2 million CIPP sewer rehabilitation in Berkeley County, South Carolina (2017) and a ~$4 million dredging and dewatering project for Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority. Equipment rental (belt presses, centrifuges, mix tanks, rotary separators) provides a managed-services revenue layer serving customers needing temporary dewatering capacity. Distribution is direct enterprise field sales, complemented by subcontractor partnerships with engineering firms and joint bids with sister Carylon companies within the Carylon Sediments Group. The company offers an Employee Stock Ownership Plan and has no external institutional capital backing visible in source materials.

Name

Bio-nomic Services

Legal name

Bio-Nomic Services, Inc.

Website

https://bio-nomic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Bio-nomic Services is a Carylon Corporation subsidiary providing sewer maintenance, hydraulic dredging, residuals dewatering, and pipeline inspection/rehabilitation to municipalities, utilities, industrial companies, and engineering firms across all 50 US states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Infrastructure Maintenance Services

NAICS

Sewage Treatment Facilities (221320), Utilities (221)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Cleaning & Decontamination (Hydroblasting/Vacuum/Confined Space) (IMAIACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Biohazard Spill Response & Decontamination Services (BPALAGAH), Biogas/RNG Plant Development, EPC & Project Delivery (EUAAAEAH), Environmental Monitoring & Cleanroom Testing (GMP) (HLAGADAL)

Keywords

• Sewer system maintenance
• Hydraulic dredging services
• Residuals dewatering
• Pipeline inspection services
• Environmental infrastructure services

Headquarters

HQ city

Belmont

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Environmental Infrastructure Services: Project-based environmental maintenance services including sewer system maintenance, hydraulic dredging, residuals dewatering, pipeline inspection and rehabilitation. Services are provided to municipalities, utilities, industrial companies, and engineering firms for both planned maintenance and emergency response situations. Revenue is generated through project contracts with typical project sizes ranging from thousands to millions of dollars.
2. Equipment Rental: Rental of environmental infrastructure maintenance equipment including belt presses, recessed chamber presses, centrifuges, mix tanks, lime silos, pug mills, and rotary separators. Provides flexible equipment access for customers who need temporary or seasonal dewatering capabilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Bio-nomic Services is a project-based environmental infrastructure maintenance contractor that delivers sewer system maintenance, hydraulic dredging, residuals dewatering, pipeline inspection, and sewer rehabilitation services. As a subsidiary of Carylon Corporation, it draws on a nationwide network of 14 environmental services companies and hundreds of specialty equipment units to serve municipalities, utilities, industrial operators, and engineering firms across the United States, primarily in the Carolinas and Southeastern U.S.

Product overview

Bio-nomic Services operates as a single service portfolio company rather than a platform with modular components. The company provides environmental infrastructure maintenance services encompassing two primary categories: Sediment Services (hydraulic dredging, residuals dewatering, belt press rental, digester cleaning, hauling/disposal/reuse, biosolids land application, excavation, and mobile filtration) and Sewer Services (acoustic inspection, CIPP lateral repair, digital TV inspection, infiltration control, sewer cleaning, wet/dry vacuum cleaning, multi-sensor pipeline inspection, and vacuum/hydro excavation). These services are offered individually or in combination to municipalities, utilities, industrial companies, and engineering firms across all 50 U.S. states. The company also participates in the Carylon Sediments Group, partnering with Metropolitan Environmental Services and Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe for larger turnkey sediment projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hydraulic Dredging Portable, GPS-equipped hydraulic dredging service capable of reaching 32-foot depths, removing up to 2,000 gallons of sludge per minute and 300 cubic yards per hour for cleanup of harbors, reservoirs, pits, ponds, lagoons, and retention areas.
• Residuals Dewatering Sludge dewatering using trailer-mounted belt filter presses, recessed chamber filter presses, rapid dewatering screens, and hydrocyclones to reduce volume and disposal costs for alum sludge, ash, sediment, and oily wastes.
• Industrial Pond/Lagoon Closures Site remediation, surface impoundment closures, and lagoon restoration services using fleet equipment for dredging, dewatering, excavation, transportation, and solidification at regulated and non-regulated sites.
• Acoustic Inspection of Pipelines Acoustic inspection technology that detects blockages before overflows occur by analyzing tone degradation through pipe air gaps, providing blockage severity ratings on a 0-10 scale within three minutes and covering approximately 2 miles of pipe per day.
• Biosolids Land Application Beneficial reuse of biosolids on farmland through site acquisition, permit assistance, agronomic support, soil testing, and complete programs for transporting and land-applying liquid or dry biosolids.
• Belt Press Rental Rental equipment including belt presses, recessed chamber presses, centrifuges, mix tanks, mobile lime silos, pug mills, and rotary separators for environmental infrastructure maintenance projects.
• Digester Cleaning Wastewater digester cleaning services using pressurized water and pumping equipment operating at up to 4,500 gpm to remove organic and inorganic materials, with dewatering capabilities for proper landfill disposal.
• Digital TV Inspection CCTV inspection services using latest equipment and NASSCO PACP reporting methods to locate trouble spots such as cracked tiles, offset joints, and blockages without excavation, with data archived on CD-ROM, flash drive, or Dropbox.
• Infiltration Control Combination digital television inspection and sewer joint sealing service providing chemical grout injection solutions to reduce infiltration without excavation, disruption, or bypass pumping.
• Sewer Cleaning Sewer cleaning services including high velocity jetting at up to 165 gpm and 2,500 psi and power bucketing for severely clogged lines, with specialized track equipment for large diameter and long-distance jobs.
• Vacuum/Hydro Excavation Non-destructive excavation using water or air vacuum technology for safely exposing underground utilities within 5 feet of hotline buffer zone boundaries, used for potholing, pilot holes, slot-trenching, and major excavations.
• CIPP Lateral Repair Cured-in-Place-Pipe lining repair using epoxy-based, impregnated polyurethane-coated felt tubing installed via trenchless pull-in, inflate, and cure methods for pipes 6 inches to 3 feet in diameter and 1 to 30 feet in length.
• Multi-Sensor Pipeline Inspection Multi-sensor inspection technology collecting data from multiple sensors on one robotic platform including HD CCTV, sonar, and laser profiling for continuous inspections up to 6,000 linear feet with +/-0.001% pipe diameter accuracy.
• Wet/Dry Vacuum Cleaning High-capacity vacuum cleaning operating at 3,200 to 7,500 cfm and 18 to 27 inches of Mercury, capable of moving heavy wet or dry sludge long distances, with optional HEPA filtration and remote cyclone units.
• Excavation Low ground pressure and extended reach excavation equipment for closure and restoration of lagoons, rivers, ponds, and landfills, with solidification and stabilization of contaminated soil, ash, sludge, and sediment at RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, and Clean Water Act regulated sites.
• Hauling, Disposal and Reuse of Ash and Residuals Hauling and disposal services for ash and residual products including municipal wastewater sludge, water treatment residuals, dredging sediments, and power plant ash, with beneficial use options.
• Mobile Filtration Mobile filtration services using self-contained systems with recessed chamber filter presses, belt presses, or hydro-cyclones that can be mobilized within days, producing liquid effluent meeting discharge parameters and solid filter cake for disposal or reclamation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Removed 68,000 cubic yards of sediment from Quarles Raw Water Reservoir in 6 months (project that normally takes 12 months)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• National Water Main Cleaning (Boston)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2017Partnered with Bio-Nomic Services to bid and perform the $3.2 million CIPP sewer rehabilitation project in Berkeley County, SC near Charleston. National Water Main Cleaning provided equipment and expertise that Bio-Nomic does not typically offer, enabling joint project execution.
• Carylon CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1990Bio-Nomic Services is a subsidiary of Carylon Corporation, a nationwide organization of 14 best-in-class regional operating companies specializing in sewer system maintenance, water supply maintenance, and remediation of ash, soil, sludge and residuals. Carylon traces its origins to 1949 when National Power Rodding Corporation developed the world's first heavy-duty continuous rod power rodder. The relationship provides Bio-Nomic access to hundreds of pieces of specialty equipment, over 150 TV truck units, and coordinated project execution across all 50 states.
• Metropolitan Environmental ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSister company within Carylon Corporation and part of the Carylon Sediments Group. Together with Bio-Nomic Services and Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe, these three operating companies form the Carylon Sediments Group offering turnkey sediment solutions including dredging, dewatering, excavation, and disposal of contaminated sediments and coal ash residuals.
• Mobile Dredging & Video PipecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the Carylon Sediments Group along with Bio-Nomic Services and Metropolitan Environmental Services, offering comprehensive turnkey sediment solutions across more territory with more resources and efficiency.
• American Water Works AssociationminorOthersProfessional association membership providing access to water industry standards, networking, and best practices.
• Water Environment FederationminorOthersProfessional association membership in the organization representing water quality professionals.
• North Carolina Water Works AssociationminorOthersRegional industry association membership for water works professionals in North Carolina.
• Western Dredging AssociationminorOthersProfessional association membership in the organization dedicated to the dredging industry.
• The Paper and Pulp Association (TAPPI)minorOthersProfessional association membership serving the pulp and paper industry.
• CALM InitiativeminorOthersInitiative focused on collection system asset and maintenance management.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• LMK Technologies: Specialist in trenchless CIPP lateral rehabilitation systems and contractor support. Comparable niche overlap with Bio-Nomic's CIPP lateral repair service for municipal sewer laterals.
• HammerHead Trenchless Equipment: Provider of trenchless equipment and consumables for CIPP, pipe bursting, and point repair. Comparable to Bio-Nomic's CIPP lateral repair and chemical grout infiltration control lines, though primarily an equipment/technology supplier rather than full-service contractor.

Broad incumbents

• Aegion Corporation: Larger publicly-traded infrastructure services company (parent of Insituform Technologies) providing CIPP pipeline rehabilitation and trenchless technologies. Directly competes with Bio-Nomic on CIPP lateral repair projects but operates at much larger national scale.
• Veolia North America: Global environmental services and water/wastewater operator with significant North American utility services footprint. Competes with Bio-Nomic on large municipal dredging, biosolids, and wastewater infrastructure projects through a broader portfolio of offerings.
• Xylem (Evoqua Water Technologies): Global water technology company with services spanning treatment, pumping, and infrastructure maintenance. Overlaps with Bio-Nomic in residuals dewatering, biosolids handling, and wastewater services for utilities and municipalities.

Direct peers

• Rain for Rent: Large North American provider of liquid handling, bypass pumping, and dewatering equipment rentals plus turnkey services. Comparable to Bio-Nomic on dewatering/belt press rentals, sewer bypass, and industrial residuals projects for utilities and industrial customers.
• National Water Main Cleaning: Boston-based sewer and water main cleaning, inspection, and rehabilitation contractor. Directly comparable as a fellow Carylon-affiliated partner that co-bid the Berkeley County CIPP project with Bio-Nomic, offering overlapping sewer cleaning, TV inspection, and CIPP capabilities.
• Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe: Third member of the Carylon Sediments Group; provides dredging, dewatering, and pipeline inspection services. Directly comparable service portfolio and customer base to Bio-Nomic within the same parent platform.
• Metropolitan Environmental Services: Sister company within the Carylon Sediments Group alongside Bio-Nomic, providing dredging, dewatering, and residuals management services. Directly comparable as it shares the same parent, customer base (utilities, municipalities, industrial), and turnkey sediment solution model.

Regional players

• BRH-Garver Construction: Houston-based heavy civil and industrial services contractor with significant dredging, dewatering, and lagoon closure capabilities. Comparable to Bio-Nomic's industrial pond/lagoon closure, dredging, and residuals services, particularly for Gulf Coast industrial and municipal clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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