Treated wastewater from a cluster system

This is a sample of treated effluent from an Eliminite MBR (MetaRocks Bio Reactor) .  It was tested and found to have less than 1 mg/l ammonia and obviously no TSS.  I spoke with the operator and this system has been producing treated effluent to this degree since it was installed almost four years ago.  He has never had to change, clean, fluff or hose off the fixed film media.  The photo below was taken through the access hatch and lets you see the condition of the MetaRocks.  They are clean and full of large pathways for air movement. A thin bio-film has developed on their polar surface but the main paths or oxygen transfer are available and open.  This means the microorganisms providing the treatment have easy access to fresh air and the MBR will remain aerobic.  Eliminite systems remain aerobic while using much less power than SBR, membrane reactors or other suspended growth systems. This means they cost less to operate and need a lot less babysitting.   

I get frustrated when the "experts" of this industry pound their desks and proclaim with conviction that onsite systems need constant maintenance to function properly.  Maybe the mainstream onsite systems, (Peat, textile, foam cube, aerated septic tanks etc) need constant operation and maintenance hand holding, but Eliminite systems absolutely do not.  I know this concept shatters the perceptions of those in government and academia and it is clear that those people are reluctant to even entertain the possibility that maybe there is a system that is far more robust and stable that the mainstream gadgets.  Apparently they think it better to cling tightly to their opinions and close their eyes to possibilities than to simply admit that they have modified their position based upon this new evidence.  (It reminds me of the controversy that erupted when Copernicus published his theory contradicting current thinking  and stated the the Earth was not the center of the universe).  

 An Eliminite distributor suggested an analogy between Eliminite and some of the other, more well known, systems.  He said Eliminite is like a 20 year old man that eats anything and everything with no concerns for calories, sodium, fat or carbs and still stays thin.  Who stays out late and gets up the next morning ready to go.  Who plays extreme sports, takes a bruising, shakes it off and keeps on playing.  Who has never been sick a day in his life.  The other systems (textile, peat, foam cube,aerated septic tanks) are like a 90 year old man.  He has to watch everything he eats carefully or he will get develop stomach problems.  Who takes a rainbow of different medications every day just to keep going.  Who, if he falls down will have to have his hip pinned.  Who has a history of illness and constantly has one foot in the grave and he other on a banana peel, ready at any second and for the slightest perturbation in his schedule, to give up the ghost.   I think that is an accurate analogy.

The picture on the bottom shows Eliminite effluent compared to bottled drinking water.  It is time, if you are truly looking for a system providing high treatment levels and ease of operation that you investigate Eliminite.   Oh...we cost a lot less and occupy a much smaller area than peat, textile or foam cube systems.  Or I guess maybe it it is heresy to suggest that the earth is NOT at the center of the universe.

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