Residential

Five years ago, we began installing our original ABGs in single family residences. Over 1,000 are now in operation. As the inventors and pioneers of ABG technology, we continued to modify the design to give it greater power and to allow for easier maintenance. The result is the SludgeHammer S-46.

IAPMO Certification

The SludgeHammer still carries with it the UPC listing. This is based on rigorous testing at UC Davis that showed it met the IAPMO IGC 180-2003 standard for Aerobic Bacterial Generators. This testing proved SludgeHammer technology could restore leach systems clogged by organic biomat at a rate of at least 2.5 times that of aerobic treatment alone. Most of those first 1,000 residential ABGs were installed for the express purpose of restoring clogged older systems. The SludgeHammer S-46 keeps that tradition going with even greater surety.

The Next Step -- New Installations.

The SludgeHammer ABG is now approved in several states as an advanced treatment system for new installations. SludgeHammer Group, Ltd, now engineers most of these systems with subsurface drip as the primary disposal means. This not only provides greater protection of groundwater and public health, it also helps recapture the value of the water, our most vital resource.

 
Household Water Budgeting

New Mexico’s SludgeHammer distributor, Water Management Associates, is one of the leading proponents of water capture and reuse in the country. Richard Jennings, founder of WMA, has a long history building systems in New Mexico that allow homeowners to capture as much of their rare, precious rainfall to maintain their landscape. When he discovered ABG technology he realized he now could include wastewater in his water budgets. As he says “”In New Mexico the only perennial stream is the wastewater stream.”

Rainwater and “SludgeHammer water” storage in the dry southwest.

Linking the two water sources allows homeowners to preserve their drought threatened landscaping in this water poor area. The rest of the country needs to look to New Mexico since even relatively water rich areas are being depleted of their groundwater. This application is possibly the most important contribution ABG technology can play in our increasingly small and threatened world.

Watch this space for good news in the near future. Soon the SludgeHammer will have completed its NSF testing and will be available throughout the entire country. The NSF-40 stamp is only months away.