Water is natures most effective solvent, and as such, along with wind and air, is the main transporter of the worlds pollutants; StormTreat System is a way for us to offset that transportation of pollutants ourselves through stewardship that makes sense.

Pollutants are effectively removed from stormwater runoffs above and beyond the call of duty with this system, the following pollutant removal data was collected over a two-year period by clients and confirmed in state-certified labs:

• Fecal Coliform 97%

• Total Suspended Solids 98%

• Chemical Oxygen Demand 82%

• Total Dissolved Nitrogen 77%

• Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon 90%

• Lead 77%

• Chromium 98%

• Phosphorus 90%

• Zinc 90%

StormTreat System has been awarded the EPA Envirotechnology Innovator Award as well as being the first stormwater treatment system to be recognized by the Massachusetts Strategic Environmental Partnership or STEP program.

STS is low maintenance, easily accessible with standard equipment and recommended for Residential Subdivisions, Lake Shores, Commercial Developments, Marinas and Landings, Industrial Sites, Parking Lots, Roads and Highways, Transportation Terminals, Reconstructions, Maintenance Facilities and Habitat Restorations.

Being a compact underground bioretention stormwater treatment system, StormTreat System uses LID (low impact development) technology, avoiding the unsightly and creating an environmentally friendly solution that is pleasing to the eye as well as the heart.

People already want the ecologically correct solutions and studies show how we can make those solutions actually the more financially viable alternative to mechanical and chemical filtration that traditionally has had a devastating effect on our environment, and the cost is driving the world into an emergency situation.

Thinking globally, but acting locally, in accordance to the laws that mother nature has put down, understanding and observing the way the planet deals with wastewater and reproducing those conditions in our planning and projects so as to return the energy supplied in collective blackwater management systems back into nature safely and wisely in stewardship of the planet.

As engineers, we now need to think progress in terms of the planet as a whole, where every last rock and tree is just as much a part of the civilization we are planning to develop as the people living in it.

Systems… It’s all about systems… Working with nature as part of our whole system, not separate from it, and using her qualities to delve deeper into the heart of our most essential needs.

Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems is an excellent place to find all the most up to date and current information on ecologically correct and financially more desirable solutions that transform blackwater into greywater, the way nature intended through more than 30 examples, 178 scientific tables and over 30 years of research that is now considered common knowledge.

This 576-page hardcover academic text for civil and environmental engineering courses, written by Ronald W. Crites, E. Joe Middlebrooks and Sherwood C. Reed, published by CRC in August of 2005, measures 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.5 and ships at 2 pounds.

Effectively incorporating the theories and processes of several of the most recent core engineering disciplines into a single text, this book is at the same time the perfect reference text for undergrad courses and professionals already working in the area, providing up to date, serious information, on Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems.

See case studies on what wasn’t working, what was proposed, what was met with speculation and what actually worked with the ongoing involvement of the general public in waterworks issues, especially involving black water produced by municipalities and industries that were threatening the biodiversity of California’s forests.

With sewage and dumping becoming a major concern among Californians, measures were taken to work with the situation in favor of both people and the environment, reusing greywater and reclaiming blackwater safely above and beyond EPA standards.

Californians desired the reclamation of water resources, it was done, and this is the document that their efforts has left all of humanity, in the hopes of a more sustainable and self-reliant future that works in stewardship of the Earth, thinking globally, while acting locally and taking action, immediately.

This 1528-page hardcover, edited by Takashi Asano, published by CRC in June of 1998, measures 9.5 x 6.1 x 3.6 and ships at five pounds.

Studies and analysis with the EPA, in San Diego and Orange County around the topic of secondary effluent turbidity and the beneficial uses of reclaimed water systems from treated municipal and industrial wastewater, prompted by the increasing pressure on public health issues, infrastructure, process reliability, siting, and facility planning with complete economic and financial analysis and water utility management.

The authors have been around for a while, dealing specifically in the engineering, design and development of water reclamation systems for years, and they know what works, what scares people and what could be done to potentially better what is already done, developing an integrated approach to managing our planets precious water resources.

This book is on the cutting edge of applications, current issues, developments in environmental protection criteria, public health, risk management, advanced treatment technologies, practices, new developments, multiple barrier approach concepts with special emphasis on process reliability and considerations on public participation, planning, satellite and decentralized water reuse facilities that make the most of our potential resources.

This scientific text takes the reader through a general introduction to health and environmental concerns in water reuse, to technologies and different systems involved in reclamation, applications of reuse and the actual implementation of water reuse strategies.

This 1570-page hardcover, has over 500 detailed illustrations and photographs, covers the latest issues and trends of water reuse, technology and applications; written by a crew of experts in the field.

Contributing authors include Takashi Asano, Fanklin L. Burton, Harold, L. Leverenz, Ryujiro Tsuchihashi, George Tchobanoglous and Metcalf & Eddy Inc., published by McGraw-Hill Professional in January of 2007, measuring 9.2 x 7.9 x 2.3and shipping at 5.5 pounds.

Teams, Students, engineers, scientists, the technology they use, the issues that confront every major aspect of water reuse from public health protection, water quality, advanced technology, regulations and implementation challenges; this is a hallmark text that sets the road for the next thirty years in how our Cartesian society will use greywater and blackwater.

The biological filter solutions that have always been frowned upon by engineers and the scientifically oriented are now proven and practical, with tables and charts that prove exactly what will work and what wont work, this is an academic book for professionals that have been working in this area long enough to know better than to believe in a bunch of tree-hugging hippies.

However strangely it may seem, after decades of protests and greenpeace action, those same tree-huggers have finally managed to get their argument into this area?!?!

Here is, a book that was written by a group of professionals who have been acting in scientific circles for a good part of some thirty years, looking at waste water effluent from a differentpoint of view and studying it as a more self-reliant and cost-effective approach to purely mechanical and chemical filtration through trial, error and case studies that finally do make the difference financially.

Performance data, projects that work and reliable solutions to waste management and effluent treatment that use a natural systems approach looking at the ecology of the whole system using microbiology, plants and animals to do and even better job than that done by our machines, while repairing the ecosystem instead of sacrificing it.

Sludge treatment and management; planning, site selection, wetlands, land treatment systems, feasibility assessment, aquatic treatment systems, wastewater stabilization ponds and many more reliable alternatives to our blackwater issues.

This 433-page paperback, written by Sherwood C. Reed, Ronald W. Cirtes and E. Joe Middlebrooks, first published by McGraw-Hill Professional in August of 1998, measures 8.9 x 6 x 1 and ships at 1.4 pounds.

The market is beginning to demand ecologically correct alternatives through Natural Systems for Waste Management and Treatment that a seasoned engineer will not only understand clearly, but finally agree with for a more economically accessible future through self-reliance and sustainability that keeps bioremediation in first priority and at a less expensive cost that is academically speaking the very best technology currently available.

As the traditional focus for wastewater management systems has been on bigger networks, it has been difficult, if not near impossible to find professional engineers that actually know about natural effluent management systems on the smaller decentralized scale.

The more younger students come looking for answers to these tree-hugger questions, the more books and courses like this one are going to appear.

Undergraduates are in for the long haul, they are the future and will determine what kinds of projects our county willor will not be building in the next decade, thus it is essential that they have access to what is proven to work and will also satisfy the current market demands.

Businesses, home owners, and government officials across the country would be smart to put the word sustainable into our mainstream, and its a fact we need to face while we still have time to figure it out, so that when the time comes to really put our knowledge into practice, we have the tools to do the job required!

Does a bigger wastewater and effluent management system really fit the future need? This book shows us that energy efficiency could mean more local solutions to what has more commonly been accepted as a question of urbanization.

On site treatment of wastewater is only part of the picture,more than that is taking into account the cross-disciplines that sustainable practices lead into, such as hydrogeology or biodiversity and make sure that what we build will be ecologically friendly, giving back equally what we take away through colonization and occupation that is ecologically correct.

This 1104-page hardcover, written by Ronald W. Crites and George Tchobanoglous, was published by McGraw-Hill in April of 1998, measuring 9.4 x 6.6 x 1.8 and ships at 3.5 pounds.

For a comprehensive approach to design, covering traditional disposal and treatment of waste effluent as well as the more trendy innovations in the eco-friendly, Small and Decentralized Wastewater Management Systems is a must read for undergraduate student engineers and the eco-interested for more self-reliant ways of taking care of our waste effluent that is environmentally beneficial as well as globally sustainable.

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