Kootenai Aquatic Sciences
  • Surface Water Maintenance and Management Without the use of Aquatic Herbicides
  • Aquaculture, Mariculture and Process Water Quality System Design
  • Project Examples 1 Fire Water Reservoirs Maintenance Watershed Modeling Contact Us
    Project Examples 2 Vendors Management Biodiversity Restoration


    Watershed Modeling:
    • If your project contains water features or lakes, they will likely receive drainage from the surrounding watersheds.
    • We can produce an accurate assessment of the quantity of nutrients the water features will experience.
    • With these numbers we can design a non-chemical maintenance program.
    • Our designs have been approved, in many regions of the US, for storm water mitigation.


    Lake Management Plans that eliminate herbicide and algaecide use
    • Reasonable and effective maintenance practices for the management of urban and rural surface waters existed prior to the dominance of the newer herbicide and biocide application methods.
    • Although they nearly disappeared in years of chemical treatment strategies, they can be the strategies employed under the new regulations.


    Maintenance procedures that produce clear water without chemicals
    • Aquatic herbicide treatments also eliminate all the types of vegetation that you "might have wanted" to keep
    • Absorption of excess nutrients that feed algae blooms can be consumed by types of aquatic plants that provide both function and beauty.
    • In our project examples below, the Chevron Corporation fire water lake is for fighting fires through the sprinkler system for the first 10 minutes while people are potentially still "inside" their corporate campus buildings. The logic for a non-chemical program for this type of lake is fairly clear.

    Review of potential vendors capable of managing your lakes or water features
    • If the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision is not overturned chemical treatments of surface waters may be a thing of the past.
    • There is an enormous difference between a lake management firm accustomed to chemical treatments and one that has had experience in maintaining aquatic habitat.

    Biodiversity Assessments and Restoration Services
    • We can take a previously chemically treated lake or water feature and return it to a viable aquatic habitat.
    • We may even return it to the point that you might have sturdy Trout or Bass and all the way down to the smallest organisms, upon which these species feed.
    • If rapid restoration is required we can provide access to numerous species that will enhance the rate of recovery of diversity.
    Fire Water Lakes and Reservoirs
    • Chemical Maintenance Programs for waters intended to be used to suppress fires may pose an increased
      number of issues. What will the lake's fire water contact when utilized for fire suppression?
    • If the water is used to suppress fires within an occupied building it could make contact with
      employees or visitors attempting to evacuate.
    • Simple chlorine treatments might impair an evacuee's eyesight. Chlorinated water can corrode electrical components
      within the computers left behind and potentially destroy delicate machinery and inventories.
    • Complex hydrocarbon biocides often have "no human contact" restrictions, for many days following use.
    • Heavy metal biocides might leave corrosive or even conductive residues.
    • In our project examples below, the Chevron Corporation fire water lake is for fighting fires through the sprinkler system for the first 10 minutes while people are potentially still "inside" their corporate campus buildings. The logic for a non-chemical program for this type of lake is fairly clear. To view an aerial of this lake "click here"
     

    Contact us today to obtain specific options and pricing.

     

     

    Project Examples:
    Aquaculture, Aquatic/Zoological Exhibits and Lakes

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium, entire initial aquarium filtration system 

  • Epcot Center

  • San Diego Zoo

  • San Francisco Zoo

  • International Shellfish Enterprises

  • Lake Superior Zoological Park, Seal, Polar Bear, Otter exhibits

  • Seattle Aquarium Exhibits

  • Hopkins Marine Labs, Pacific Grove, CA

  • Chevron Corporation, Corporate Campus Fire Water Reservoir

  • Numerous Private Residential Lakes from Nantucket Island to
    Palo Alto, CA
     


  • Project Examples:
    Mechanical and Biological Water Treatment Systems
  • Sematech, Austin Texas, National Semiconductor, Intel, etc., consortium for semiconductor production. Process water treatment system. 

  • Motorola, Phoenix, AZ, semiconductor production facility

  • Intel, Israel, semiconductor production water treatment system

  • IBM, Scotland, Semiconductor production water treatment system

  • Michelin Tire, Sandy Springs, SC, Cooling water purification systems

  • Boeing Aircraft, Cooling water purification systems

  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, designed and constructed a submersed and emergent wetland system for ground water pollution mitigation

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