Innovations
Bacteria Injection Systems
The ASI Bacteria Injection System is the most advanced water management approach on the market today. It incorporates state-of-the-art technology with established weed control and water quality maintenance practices to deliver a complete lake management program. By combining lake bottom aeration and continuous bacterial treatment into one easily maintained, completely automated system, ASI Bacterial Injection System provides excellent weed control, maintains clean, clear water, and limits accumulation of unsightly mats of algae around lake shores.
Excess algae growth and poor water quality are a result of high nutrient content. Traditional water quality and algae control involves periodic bacterial treatment to reduce nutrients, and physical or chemical removal of nuisance algae. While all of these treatments can be effective, none are long term nor complete in terms of level of control achieved.
The ASI Bacterial Injection System reduces the need for physical or chemical algae control because it employs continuous bacterial injection. The System treatment centers use a specialized bacteria injector and water distribution manifold to deliver a constant stream of water treated with nutrient and sludge consuming bacteria to all areas of the lake. Because treatment is thorough and continuous, ASI Bacterial Injection System provides constant nutrient and algae control.
Copper-Ion Generators
Copper Ion technology has been successfully applied to limit or eliminate bio-fouling problems for many years. Bio-fouling is the undesirable accumulation of microorganisms, plants, and animals on artificial surfaces. Across the United States aquatic nuisance species, such as freshwater bryozoans, didmyo, and New Zealand mud snails, have became a major issue with non-potable irrigation systems. These organisms attach themselves to the inside of pipes, and equipment clogging entire systems and rendering them ineffective. Non-potable irrigation systems are extremely susceptible to the problem of bio-fouling, although it is rarely detected until it is too late. We highly recommend the installation of this technology on all non-potable irrigation systems.
In order to control bio-fouling, treatment must occur within the pipes of the system not the water source. Copper ion technology uses the process electrolysis. These units emit low levels of copper ions which coat the inside of irrigation pipes. The levels of copper remain below drinking water levels. This copper coating deters organisms from proliferating and allowing for colonies to develop. Copper is toxic to many aquatic nuisance species, therefore providing control against colonization within the pipes. Copper ions have exceptional killing power even at low concentrations and, unlike other technologies, are not affected by pH levels within the water.
Copper ion generators have been successfully installed in nuclear power plants to control bio-fouling for nearly a decade now. The installation of these units provides a cost effective solution to bio-fouling problems in a wide array of equipment and treatment systems.
