CLEAN-FLO...Experts in water quality since 1970.


540 East Union Street, Suite I
West Chester, PA 19382
Phone: 610-431-1934 / 1-800-328-6656
Fax: 610-431-1959

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This large reservoir had a serious blue-green algae problem producing bad taste and odor in the drinking water. Taste and odor is gone after inversion and oxygenation of the reservoir by CLEAN-FLO. Lake top half is treated with CLEAN-FLO and bottom half is not treated with CLEAN-FLO. This small lake demonstrates the effectiveness of CLEAN-FLO products and services in the remediation and management of water. In this example diffusers and inversion / oxygenation have been employed at a great savings and with total effectiveness. This river was restored from Class 3-4 where Class 4 is “unusable for any purpose” to Class 1-2 where Class 1 is “usable for any purpose.” This hog manure lagoon demonstrates the effectiveness of CLEAN-FLO’s unique aeration in treating wastewater treatment lagoons. Odor could not be detected when standing on the edge of the lagoon. This lake had two feet of organic muck at the shoreline before CLEAN-FLO treatment. This is a pond using the CLEAN-FLO pond aeration system. Inversion and oxygenation of a bay of the ocean. This bay of the ocean was highly polluted by industrial and residential waste before CLEAN-FLO treatment. Inverting and oxygenating bays of the ocean and rivers flowing into the bays can prevent red tide from destroying important fisheries. Improve water quality, remove odors, improve fish growth, and health and prevent fish kills. This a pond that does not use the CLEAN-FLO pond aeration system.
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Algae Control and Algae Removal in Lakes, Reservoirs and Ponds

Algae control can be accomplished by reducing plant nutrients (fertilizers). These include phosphorus and nitrogen, minor nutrients such as sulfur and various micronutrients such as iron, manganese, magnesium, zinc, molybdenum, cobalt, etc. This is why algae removal using algaecides often results in weed growth and weed control with herbicides often results in heavy algal blooms.

The nutrients must go somewhere. They will go either into weeds or algae. Algae shade the water so weeds cannot grow. If the problem is excessive weed growth, the weeds take up the plant nutrients in the water so the algae cannot grow. Lakes naturally shift every few years from weeds to algae or from algae to weeds.  It all depends on what becomes established first in the season.

As you know, algaecides algae removal, likewise, several references indicate that both excessive copper algaecides and alum can kill fish and other aquatic animals or interfere with reproduction in fish. Copper compounds can kill beneficial bacteria in the lakes that want to feed on bottom organic sediment. Alum can leave an aluminium hydroxide flocculent on the bottom that interferes with both fish reproduction and with beneficial bacteria and insects that feed on bottom organic sediment muck).  Copper compounds can destroy water quality. As the dead algae decompose they not only release phosphorus and nitrogen, they also consume oxygen. Lack of oxygen causes a release of massive amounts of phosphorus and nitrogen from the sediment into the water. Reducing. oxygen often causes fish kills. Algaecides do nothing to improve the health and growth of fish, nothing to reduce bottom organic sediment. Copper compounds also add a new toxic sediment to the bottom, copper carbonate, which also interferes with bacterial decomposition of sediments and interferes with fish reproduction.

If you remove all the algae in a lake without eliminating the cause, the plant nutrients are still in the water. The algae will quickly return, unless weeds quickly take up the nutrients before the algae grow again. Then you have a lake full of weeds.  

Natural algae control is  a result of nutrient reductions.  The CLEAN-FLO Continuous Laminar Flow Inversion and Oxygenation System,  in combination with our beneficial bacteria, C-FLO-6 or C-FLO-6F and Clean & Clear enzymes, will give algae control by reducing carbon dioxide and available nutrients to such low levels that the algae removal occurs.



CASE STUDY: Cyanophyceae in reservoirs and lakes (Blue Green Algae).

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C-FLO-6 C-FLO-6 feeds on non-living organic matter and is particularly effective on reducing nutrients that are food for PLANKTONIC (suspended) algae.



C-FLO-6F C-FLO-6F feeds on non-living organic matter and is particularly effective in reducing nutrients that are food for FILAMENTOUS algae (looks like green hair or moss and usually grows on weeds or rocks).



Lake Cleanser Special was developed by CLEAN-FLO and has been found to be particularly effective in limiting phosphorus that is food for BLUE-GREEN algae (foul smelling green scum on the surface of lakes and ponds), FILAMENTOUS algae (looks like green hair or moss and usually grows on weeds or rocks), DUCKWEED (looks like tiny three-leaf clover on the surface), and WATERMEAL (looks like green corn meal on the surface of lakes and ponds).



Lake Care was developed with the purpose of neutralizing the electrostatic charges in water and has been found particularly effective in neutralizing those charges that are utilized by submerged weeds and green PLANKTONIC algae (that green cast to the water).



Clean & ClearTM CONCENTRATED ENZYMES is a special blend of non-toxic vegetable enzymes from nature that acts as a catalyst to biodegrade non-living organic matter and reduces available nutrients in the water, thus improving water quality.



Lake Cleanser III was developed to remove or lock up phosphates and suspended particles from all types of water bodies.



Iron Filings Bind phosphorus in lakes / ponds with a short retention time.
Minnow Traps Enable zooplankton to feed on algae.

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Algae covered pond before CLEAN-FLO treatment

  

Algae eliminated after CLEAN-FLO treatment

  
       
 

 

 

 
             
             
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