Watch It Work

 

The Cleary's System Wasn't Clear.

The Cleary's system had backed up to the point that almost no water was getting into the soil. They installed their own unit under our guidance -- it's that easy! In little more than a week the water level went down in their tank as the microbes worked in the soil to digest the BioMat, allowing percolation to resume.

A Typical Septic Tank

We all know what a typical septic tank looks like. Pretty nasty. Now the Cleary's tank looks like a drinking water spring. No solids. No odors.

Goodbye Nitrogen.

Standard septic tanks release ammonia into the soil. There, it is converted by aerobic bacteria into nitrate, a potentially toxic element that percolates through the soil over long distances. This can be a threat to the water in lakes and streams, and of course, to the water we drink. The SludgeHammer bacteria colonize the soil that surrounds the leach trench and converts this ammonia to nitrogen gas instead of nitrate. Sampling from wells near the trench show ammonia in the leachate at less than 1 ppm, with nitrates typically undetectable.

Hello Clear Water.

The water is almost pristine except for a very slight turbidity caused by the working bacteria -- those microbes which the SludgeHammer sends out to clear the leach trench.      

The Results are Clear.

Inventor Dan Wickham was once a winemaker, which explains his temptation to sniff  the product. He seems to be able to resist the tasting part (the water is from a septic tank, after all) - the water certainly looks good enough to drink.