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Bio-Dredging is leveraging natural biological processes to digest and eliminate the mucky nutrient-sediment. By creating conditions where the nutrients can be directed into the food web, more abundant, healthier and larger fish are the result.
It’s simpler, it’s easier, there’s no mess and it’s much, much cheaper.
At Clean-Flo, our alternative bio-dredging techniques uses bottom composition mapping as a platform to understand the muck removal project at hand and ultimately create the most cost-effective solutions to your problem. Also, we use bottom composition surveys as a way to monitor and track progress or changes in the muck reduction process.
At Clean-Flo, our natural bio-dredging alternative methods don’t consist of physically removing the muck from the water body using equipment. Ours is a natural biological process. Therefore, there’s no need for land to store the muck.
While conventional dredging techniques deepen a lake or pond, which makes it more difficult for submerged vegetation to grow, there is no guarantee that dredging can help improve water quality. In fact, according to the USEPA dredging does nothing to control algae, reduce odor, prevent fish kill, improve fish health and maintain a clean lake or pond bottom. On the contrary, it mixes phosphorus, nitrogen and other pollutants found in muck into the water and often triggers algae blooms.
We have a proven track record of reducing hundreds of cubic yards or mucky sediment, adding several feet to the average depth of lakes, and improving water quality using our holistic biological solutions.
If you are looking for a natural and inexpensive alternative to traditional dredging techniques for reducing muck and improving water quality, give us a call for more information.
For traditional dredging techniques, after the sediment amount is accessed, the next step is to find an area to put the muck on land once it’s removed. However, most people underestimate the amount of land needed to contain the removed muck. Typically for every two acres of lake or pond dredged, there’s an average of three feet of sediment, which requires an acre of land with an elevation of about 6 feet. Keep in mind; this area should be as close to the water body as possible as it affects the dredging cost. But that also means that the nutrients in the sludge can be carried back into the lake by storm runoff.
Since dredging requires the physical removal of unwanted sediment, it poses a huge threat to the water body’s health, shoreline, and landscape at the expense of the water body’s biology and wildlife. The primary focus of traditional dredging is to remove the submerged sediment deposits; as a result, the environmental effects of dredging also revolve around this focal point and include:
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