NITREX™ Nitrogen Removal Process Demonstrates Highest Removal Rates in Several Tests

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NITREX™ Nitrogen Removal Process Demonstrates Highest Removal Rates in Several Tests

Wastewater nitrogen levels consistently reduced to 3 mg/l levels

BOSTON, ALABAMA, Oct. 20 -/E-Wire/-- The innovative, passive NITREX TM wastewater nitrogen removal system has demonstrated the ability to consistently reduce wastewater nitrogen levels to 3 mg/l. The NITREX TM nitrogen removal technology has demonstrated effectiveness for individual properties, as well as cluster and centralized wastewater systems.

The NITREX TM system has been successfully removing nitrogen at EPA or State sponsored independent testing programs at LaPine, Oregon (www.deq.state.or.us/wq/lapinedata/SiteRptCriteria.asp), Montana test sites, and the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (www.buzzardsbay.org.etimain.htm), as well as at Canadian sites for the past seven years.

Testing results demonstrate that the NITREX TM system effluent can achieve 3 ppm Total Nitrogen, the acknowledged limits of technology of centralized wastewater treatment plants. Recent data at the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center also demonstrates that the NITREXTM System maintained its effectiveness with seasonal and week-end only use – a problem for other treatment technologies.

The significance for coastal communities and other areas with nitrogen load problems is the ability to address nitrogen removal requirements without the need for costly, disruptive and widespread sewerage systems. Nutrient budgets for numerous watersheds have determined that fertilizers produce 40%, wastewater 40% and an atmospheric deposition 20% of the annual nitrogen contributions to water bodies. Coastal watersheds with nitrogen levels above 0.3 mg/l have shown significant ecological decline. In addition, the standard for nitrogen in drinking water is 10 mg/l nitrate-N and to date has been the criteria used for managing nitrogen in many areas.

The NITREX TM system has also been successfully used for nitrate removal from agricultural and golf course runoff, as well as contaminated groundwater using a reactive barrier – originally developed at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. The system has also been tested on high nitrates waters used for water supply.

The NITREX TM wastewater nitrogen removal system was developed at the internationally acclaimed Earth Sciences Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and is licensed to Boston-based Lombardo Associates, Inc. Information about and various test results on the NITREX TM system can be obtained from Lombardo Associates, Inc. (www.lombardoassociates.com)

Lombardo Associates is a Boston-based environmental engineering firm focused on using innovative wastewater, stormwater and water supply techniques. Their projects have won engineering excellence awards and Pio Lombardo was recognized by Engineering News Record as a Construction Man of the Year Candidate for an innovative wastewater project in Maryland.

Fuessler Group, Inc.

For further information contact:

Pio Lombardo, P.E. Rolf Fuessler, APR

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http://www.lombardoassociates.com

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