Dominican Republic Controls Algal Blooms in 7km²/2.7mi² Reservoir (Case Study)

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Dominican Republic Controls Algal Blooms in 7km²/2.7mi² Reservoir (Case Study)

After dealing with algal blooms for years, Empresa de Generación Hidroeléctrica Dominicana (EGEHID) installed multiple MPC-Buoy systems to cover the 7km²/2.7mi² Valdesia reservoir earlier this year.

Two months after the start of the project, the results have already exceeded the set targets.

Read the entire story about recovering the country’s most important water source with an environmentally friendly solution in the link below.

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https://www.lgsonic.com/news/dominican-republic-controls-algal-blooms-7km2-reservoir

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3 Comments

  1. Algae are expected to release a certain amount of nutrients in the water when they die anyway,like any other organism which settles at the bottom of a waterbody and decompose.However with our technology we reduce the high biomass of algae which grows out of control near the surface water layers and prevent the formation of new algal blooms. As a result less algae will accumulate near the bottom sediments over time. The combination of a continuous water monitoring with ultrasound treatment will lead to an interactive and a long-term control of algae based on site-specific conditions.

    Reducing the nutrient is also necessary but in many cases very difficult to achieve that adequately even in a long term.The majority of the nutrient management methods are not cost-effective and require repetition with unknown side-effects for an ecosystem.Besides,the duration and intensity of algal blooms is strongly depended not only on nutrients but also on a combination of environmental factors such as climate change and unbalanced ecosystem.

  2. I fail to see the long term benefit of using any buoy system.  I believe nature has already supplied  the answer to this problem. Man, machines, and chemicals create the situation year after year. I can imagine the cost and long term maintenance of the system.