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Water problems are a growing concern, not only in your local community but throughout the entire world. Take a few moments to follow what news sources are saying about the remarkable results that ATS Innova is creating with its clean water solutions.
Will ATS Innova’s New Water Treatment Probiotics Product Line Work for Me?
Just as probiotics work to correct health issues in the gut, it can do the same for wastewater treatment. Probiotics make up very small organic molecules that improves existing microbial activity in wastewater; they reduce sludge, cut down on odor, and control BOD and...
Phos58™: The Unique Rare Earth Metal that is Changing How We Treat Wastewater
Rare earth metals have been used for thousands of years for many uses. One of the applications includes treating wastewater, specifically regarding phosphorus removal. Phos58, a rare earth chloride solution with high performance, is a water-soluble coagulant that has...
How Innova MB™ Products Promote Biological Oxidation in Wastewater
Just like an ecosystem needs oxygen to sustain life, the same goes with treating wastewater. By introducing oxygen in the water, it aerates the water and kills off harmful microorganisms. When a reduction in biochemical or biological oxidation occurs,...
ATS Announces Partnership with Probiotic Solutions for Microbial Wastewater Treatment
ATS Innova has signed a contract with Probiotic Solutions – a concentrated liquid wastewater remediation company located in Gilbert, AZ. The company features Micro Carbon Technology®, and together with ATS, offers the best microbial wastewater treatment on the market....
Less than Stellar Wastewater Treatment? Why Nano-Molecular Carbon Beats the Same Ole’ Same Ole’
Wastewater treatment continues to be a challenge and will always be one – however, if you’re dealing with less than the best treatment, it may be time to re-think your solutions. Nano-Molecular Carbon is at the forefront of many advanced solutions with ATS...
What Are the New State Phosphorus Regulations I Need to Know?
Phosphorus removal has been and continues to be a big challenge, more now than ever before. You may wonder what’s the big deal? Since you can find phosphorus in nearly every fertilizer manufactured commercially, it affects our watershed. After crops are fertilized,...
How LuminUltra® Works for Microbial Monitoring of Water Systems
Have you ever wondered about the impact of uncontrolled biological growth in water systems? Non-pathogenic microbes can consume disinfectant residual, promote biofilm harboring pathogens, and promote corrosion to systems. However, microbial monitoring in...
ATS Collaborates with LuminUltra for Microbial Testing
ATS announced a press release yesterday that included the contract signing of a strategic alliance with Canada-based LuminUltra. Together, ATS and LuminUltra can bring smart solutions in real time with monitoring microbes in water and offering the...
Why Wastewater Enzymes are Illegal in Treatment Facilities
Since the massive fatberg found in Wales took the mainstream media by storm, the topic has been making the rounds on the blogosphere – ours included. FOG and other things dumped down the sink or toilet result in the accumulation of sludge, which then backs...
Why Using the Wrong Wastewater Treatment Chemical in the Wrong Place Can be Detrimental
As all water operators know, the use of coagulants is the first step of water treatment, and among chemicals used is ferric chloride (Iron III). It’s the coagulant of choice used in many sanitary wastewater treatment programs, industrial applications, and...
Discover Wastewater Genomic Mapping: Decoding the Best Microbes to Use
All living organisms contain DNA – including living ecosystems and living wastewater treatment. The scientific research project, known as the Human Genome Project started in 1990 and took more than a decade to complete and $2.7 billion. The goal included...
THE Dream Team for the Best Wastewater Treatment
Wastewater treatment facilities in the United States process approximately 34 billion gallons of wastewater every day. Think about the expense that entails. Now think about what you spend annually and whether you’ve been spending more time and money on...
Top Reasons Sanitary System Overflow Dangers Your Community
If you’ve noticed all the press with the infamous fatberg in Wales this month, you know what happened and how it happened. However, the community may not know or care. The supposedly benign things they stuff down their sink or flush down their toilets, as you know,...
What’s a Wastewater Fatberg and How You’re Contributing to It
If you’ve seen the original Ghostbusters II, you would know that under New York, a massive red, molten lava, thick slime coated the sewers and eventually, pushed up through the manholes and started devouring everything. It took cars in its grasp and people...
Do You Know the Condition of Your Wastewater Collection System?
Imagine you’re in charge of wastewater collection system maintenance when suddenly a recent storm overflows the sewer system. When combined sewers connect to wastewater treatment plants, they can become overburdened during combined sewer overflows or CSO...
Best Ways to Prevent Sanitary System Overflow
Sanitary System Overflow, or SSO, is a condition where untreated sewage becomes expelled from a sanitary sewer into the environment prior to reaching sewage treatment plants. When there’s rainfall, it’s commonly known as wet weather overflow. In developed...
Why Calcium Nitrate is a Scam and is Costing You in the Long Run
You may think using calcium nitrate is a cost-effective solution for wastewater management, but you’d be very wrong. Before getting into the nuts and bolts of the proven ineffectiveness and why it’s expensive, let’s first talk about calcium nitrate and...
Does Innova MB Just Send Hydrogen Sulfide in Wastewater Further Downstream?
Hydrogen sulfide in wastewater can cause immediate problems, as well as long-term problems. Many products take care of the issue upstream but don’t tackle it at the source, so it doesn’t send the problem further downstream. ATS Innova MB...
Hydrogen Sulfide Effects on Humans and Why Removing it is Critical
In the last blog post, we discussed the effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on infrastructure and how an excess of the colorless gas can corrode pipes, sewer lines, and other equipment. If that’s not bad enough, hydrogen sulfide effects can also corrode...
Why H2S Results in Biogenic Sulfide Corrosion and How to Eliminate it
The development of H2S in sanitary sewer systems create major problems, including corrosion that carries its own challenges. When the anaerobic slime layer from submerged pipe walls rise into an airway portion of the sewer pipe and reacts with bacteria and...
Old Versus New Bioaugmentation: Why It’s Better Than Ever
Wastewater bioaugmentation, having been around for decades, is a way to improve the reduction of organic solids and odors. Advancements in environmental biotechnology allow for designing of better, more effective products. The result is the introduction of...
Have Questions About How Wastewater Microorganisms Work?
You can find microbes (also called microorganisms) in the air, as well as soil, lakes, and oceans. They’re all over our body, both inside and out. Moreover, even though we can't see them, microbes have a massive impact on us and our environment. In fact,...
Tips for Flood-Proofing Wastewater Treatment Plants
When it comes to Mother Nature and flooding, recent history has taught us just how quickly water can overflow banks and pose major problems for wastewater and water treatment plants. With the last hurricanes, flooding has become a major concern –...
The Difference Between Enzymes and Bacillus Bacteria and Why Microbes are Superior
Wastewater treatment plants have a big job to do, so ensuring the right products used is crucial. Many plants use enzymes to treat water; however, they only do part of the job. Bioaugmentation wastewater treatment proves far more superior in aiding with...
Think Microbes for Better Aerobic Digestion and Sludge Dewatering
When it comes to oxygen, we need it to survive – that’s a given. Without it, our world would be a barren wasteland. Now picture thousands of species all co-existing with other creatures in this unique ecosystem, spewing hot life-giving chemicals like a...
Polymer Water Treatment Blend: The Perfect Balance
As a water treatment plant, your job is taking the waste from your customer’s property and treating it, so you can recycle it and use it again. Your customers couldn’t care less what happens after they flush their toilet or use their sink. In fact, they probably have...
Want an Alternative Treatment in Lift Station Odor Control with Higher Performance and Less Cost?
You know the odor, it makes you cringe. Hydrogen sulfide or “rotten egg” smell is unmistakable. No one wants to smell the horrible odor – especially when the community starts complaining. In addition, hydrogen sulfide is poisonous and presents serious...
Why Didn’t Bioaugmentation Work for You in the Past?
You may have used bioaugmentation to enhance your wastewater treatment or collection system with varying degrees of success. Wastewater bioaugmentation has been performed for many years by introducing outside microbes to the system, either from another...
Value of Water Infrastructure: Why We Can No Longer Ignore Reality
In last week’s blog post on the value of water, we focused on the importance of having safe, clean drinking water and the challenges it presents. In this week’s post, the topic is the value of water infrastructure, why we can no longer ignore reality. We've already...
The Value of Water: A Precious Commodity
There’s only so much water, and as much as we’d love to make more, this is all we have. We need to take care of what we have. The value of water isn’t something we can put a price tag on, yet we try. In many of our cities and communities, we tax potable...
Phosphorus Removal from Wastewater: Pinpointing Your Plant’s Approach
Phosphorus removal from wastewater is a widespread challenge. Many wastewater treatment plants have problems achieving and maintaining low phosphorus levels required by today's standards. How do wastewater plants treat phosphorus? Three traditional chemicals for...
How to Make Phosphorus Treatment Easier and Boost Plant Performance
Increasing phosphorus regulations means plants must change too With the negative effects of nutrient pollution on the environment and human health becoming more widely known, and as regulations increase, ‘coming close’ to complying isn’t usually going to cut it. If...
New and Updated Standards for Phosphate Removal From Wastewater
As phosphorus is not a new problem, some phosphorus removal standards have been in place for years. However, new standards are being implemented for previously unregulated industries, and certain existing standards, like the ones relating to phosphate removal from...
Phosphorus and Its Effect on Wastewater Plants
Years ago, our laundry detergent had other uses beyond just cleaning laundry. If you had an oil spill in a driveway, for example, you could pour a little Tide and water on it and then come out an hour later and rinse everything away, including the oil. Likewise, if...
Desludge, Reduce Backwashes, and Save
You need to desludge, and you need better water treatment solutions because you're running too many backwashes. Your sludge hauls are getting more and more frequent, and hurting your bottom line. Sludge hauls and backwashes are necessary parts of the water treatment...
The art of smart wastewater solutions at Innova
You've got algae filling up your settling basin and clogging your wastewater system. Maybe quagga mussels have taken up residence in your equipment. Or are you producing too much sludge at your wastewater treatment plant? You have a wastewater treatments problem....
