The Use of Sustainable Green Wastewater Treatment Technology Across the Andes , Ecuador, South America.. More than 25 units were constructed across the Andes, with each climatic zone presenting its own unique set of problems. The treatment units are currently removing more than 95% of the BOD5, COD, and suspended solids concentration. Each unit is …
Nov 06
Hudson River Maritime Newsletter
Hudson River Maritime Newsletter. 1. Money from municipal bonds, taxes or corporations to try and solve waste water problems by adding to existing sewage treatment plants or building entirely new plants along the same old traditional concepts. 2. Chlorine, which is used in ever increasing amounts to disinfect the final effl uent before it, enters …
Nov 06
A New Approach to Sustainable Aquaculture | Solutions
A New Approach to Sustainable Aquaculture | Solutions. When we first acquire fingerlings of sea bass, sea bream, meagre, and sole fish from external hatcheries (mullets and eels naturally enter from the Guadalquivir estuary), we release them into 500-square-meter pools situated beside the near-natural ponds. When the fishes reach a certain size, they are moved …
Nov 06
Lumby involved in the the recovery of salmon
Shuswap Sockeye Salmon Cohen Commission – presentations in Kamloops 2010-10-21-KamloopsPublicForumSummaries Michelle Nickerson described her experience as a research scientist for an independent power producer project, emphasizing that her models showed that climate change will cause dramatic hydrograph changes, increasingly erratic winds, plankton blooms, and warmer temperatures and lower water levels in the Fraser River. She …
Nov 06
Salmon, VSBs and Lumby
VSB’s clean up pollution – Lumby Local Industry Lumby’s economic development meeting was a really positive experience. Throughout the evening there was talk about strengthening our connection to salmon. In case you didn’t hear my 2 minute presentation at the development meeting, here is an e-mail from Dr.Ronald Lavigne, President of New England Waste Systems …
Nov 06
Local Lumby at the Cohen Commission on Salmon
The Lumby Economic Development meeting became a memorable part of Michelle Nickerson’s testimony to the Cohen Commission in Kamloops. She said that her vision for the sustainability of Sockeye Salmon came from a meeting in Lumby where she witnessed community commitment to salmon. She listed the Lumby Salmon Trails, the Wild Salmon Music Festival, Lumby …
Nov 06
Pantano Seco Artificial Dry Swamp
Pantano Seco Artificial Dry Swamp This appears to be the work of Dr.Ronald Lavigne and Pablo Payal – fixing the environmental problems for water with New England Waste Systems – Vegetated Sand Beds. News of the Municipal Government of Santa Cruz This new technique is applied in Continental Ecuador and other countries, and has solved, …
Nov 06
Treatment system for landfill leachate
Claims The invention having been thus described, what is claimed as new and desired to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. System for treating landfill leachate comprising: (a) a leachate supply source, (b) a treatment basis which slopes from a high end to a low end, and which includes a water impervious liner, (c) a …
Nov 06
NEWS USA
NEWS USA. Vegetated Sand Bed Installation Artificial or Treatment Wetlands have many names: Artificial Wetland Treatment Systems (AWTSs); Living Filters (LFs); Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems (CWTSs); Vegetated Sand Beds (VSBs); and Pantanos Secos Artificiales (PSAsTM). All are manmade wastewater treatment systems constructed so as to emulate and maximize the natural biogeochemical purification processes known to …
Nov 06
State of the Ocean.org – How Bad Is It?
State of the Ocean Three potentially deadly factors — warming – acidification – anoxia — affecting today’s oceans. Every sea and ocean on our planet is part of one, global Ocean. This Ocean is like the earth’s circulatory system: it performs numerous vital functions which make our planet habitable. We cannot survive without the ocean. …