A water company built around your water
Midwest Water Solutions is Carson and Michele's company, run from a shop on 350th Avenue just east of DeWitt. It exists to do one thing well: sell, install or repair the equipment that fixes what is actually wrong with a home's water, and nothing more. Carson came to the trade with five years of hands-on water-conditioning experience and a conservation degree, and that background shows in how a job starts: with what you need. Some customers call knowing exactly which system they want, and they get a quote for it. Others want to see the numbers, and for them we offer a free in-home water test (hardness in grains per gallon, iron, total dissolved solids, pH and chlorine) and a sit-down over the results. The test is an option, not a requirement. If a private well needs a bacteria, nitrate or radium check, the sample goes to a lab.
The territory: DeWitt, three Iowa counties and the Illinois side
The shop sits in the middle of Clinton County's well belt, which is a good place to learn water. DeWitt itself drinks unsoftened Jordan-aquifer water from three deep city wells. Clinton, twenty minutes east, gets very hard water from Iowa American Water's own deep wells. Drive south into Scott County and the picture changes again: Davenport and Bettendorf are on Mississippi River water that swings from moderately to very hard with the season and is disinfected with chloramine rather than chlorine. Eldridge and the acreages around it are on dolomite wells. Cross the river and Rock Island runs its own river plant, while Fulton pumps hard, iron-rich well water. North in Jackson County, Maquoketa's city plant softens at the source but publishes no hardness figure, and the karst country around it is where shallow wells go cloudy after a hard rain.
Every one of those places is inside our service area (Clinton, Jackson and Scott counties in Iowa, plus Rock Island and Whiteside counties on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities), and every one of them needs a different answer. That variety is exactly why the free water test is there for anyone who wants it.
Sell, install, repair: every brand
We are not a dealer for one manufacturer, and we think that matters more than most homeowners realize. Midwest Water Solutions sells and installs new water softeners, under-sink and whole-home reverse osmosis drinking-water systems, and iron, carbon and ozone filters. Just as important, we repair and service every brand of softener, RO and filter system already out there, whether we sold it or not. The Culligan a previous owner left in the basement, the big-box unit that quit softening, the Kinetico that needs a valve rebuilt: we work on all of them. Being brand-neutral means the recommendation follows your water instead of a quota.
Salt, filters and the emergency line
A system is only as good as its upkeep, so we handle that too. Scheduled salt delivery keeps the brine tank full without anyone hauling 40-pound bags down the stairs. RO filter and membrane changes, carbon media, iron-filter checks and annual service are all on the calendar, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.
Water treatment is rarely an emergency trade, but when it is (a softener stuck in regeneration and flooding the basement, a fitting that let go under the sink, a house with no usable water), waiting until Monday is not an option. For those situations we keep a 24/7 phone line and are on-site within 2 hours.
Homes and businesses
Most of our work is residential: softeners next to the water heater, RO under the kitchen sink or whole-home RO in the basement, iron and ozone filters on rural wells. We also serve commercial properties that need consistent water for their equipment and their customers, on the same terms: a free estimate, a free water test if they want one, an insured install, and follow-up when the system needs it.
Getting started
Call (563) 221-9009 or use the Get Free Estimate form and tell us what you have in mind. We will get back to you during business hours, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm. If you have a copy of your utility's water quality report or a past well test, keep it handy; it saves a step. And if you want your water tested, say so. The test is free.