Many times the odor and taste causing algae are cyanobacteria or blue-green algae. They can be easily controlled in the main water reservoir using ultrasound. Our technology defeats them by causing cell internal gas vesicles to collapse and the gas migrates to the cell outer wall where it diffuses out over 3-4 days. Thus these type algae are rendered heavier than water so they sink to the bottom where they get insufficient light to thrive. In one such installation in New Zealand, the facility had to switch to a back-up reservoir and they immediately began to have customer complaints due to taste and odor. They installed a solar powered Quattro-DB® unit and within a week the taste and odor problems were gone. Samples taken showed the cyanobacteria counts fell to near undetectable. In the City of Atlanta Hemphill Reservoir, two of our SolaRaft systems were installed and they have now gone all year without having to add any copper based algaecide. The savings paid for the unit in less than two years. Contact george@algaecontrol.us for additional information.
Published by George Hutchinson, President, AlgaeControl.US LLC
Many times the odor and taste causing algae are cyanobacteria or blue-green algae. They can be easily controlled in the main water reservoir using ultrasound. Our technology defeats them by causing cell internal gas vesicles to collapse and the gas migrates to the cell outer wall where it diffuses out over 3-4 days. Thus these type algae are rendered heavier than water so they sink to the bottom where they get insufficient light to thrive. In one such installation in New Zealand, the facility had to switch to a back-up reservoir and they immediately began to have customer complaints due to taste and odor. They installed a solar powered Quattro-DB® unit and within a week the taste and odor problems were gone. Samples taken showed the cyanobacteria counts fell to near undetectable. In the City of Atlanta Hemphill Reservoir, two of our SolaRaft systems were installed and they have now gone all year without having to add any copper based algaecide. The savings paid for the unit in less than two years. Contact george@algaecontrol.us for additional information.