Summer may be winding down, but toxic algae is just heating up. It feels like a broken record with year-after-year of worsening algal blooms nationwide. It begins when the temps heat up and releases toxic cyanobacteria, (otherwise known as HABs) into the water. These...
It’s 1979 and Robert Allred is armed with water treatment chemicals, selling them out of his pea green 1970 Chevy station wagon. Later that year, ATS was born. Allred’s desire was to provide a level of service the client needed and deserved, as well as the freedom to...
Advancements in water treatment have evolved in the last number of years, ensuring clean and safe drinking water for communities. To allow for this, the EPA has set legal limits on many contaminants for the safety of human health. In fact, the Safe Drinking Water Act...
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...
We see it all the time. With the onset of summer, calls come into water treatment plants or city offices, complaining about the green gunk and awful smell in lakes, rivers, and lagoons. Not only is it an eye-sore (who wants to go swimming in that or taste it in your...
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,...
