Introduction

The Product:

JCW-MS optimizes and stimulates the biological water medium, to help increase already existing natural processes that are essential to waste water treatment systems.
JCW-MS is designed to stimulate both anaerobic and aerobic waste water treatment processes, reducing BOD, COD, TSS, FOG, H2S and etc.
JCW-MS is biodegradable, non-toxic, non-hazardous, non-corrosive, non-irritating and does not require PPE.

The Problem:

We have a facultative lagoon consisting of 3 cells with 2 inlets and 1 outlet. There is a manhole for each inlet. The south manhole has severe FOG (Fat, Oil & Grease) issues. We couldn't even do a TSS (Total Suspended Solids) test, because the FOG was so thick. Our influent is about 0.1MGD (Million Gallon/Day). We have tried numerous products, that obviously have not worked.

The Experiment Demonstration

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The Hypothesis: If we add JCW-MS to the manhole, it will stimulate the natural occurring processes to clean itself up.

To demonstrate if the product works or not, we are adding 1/2 gallon of JCW-MS to the manhole morning and night. Documenting the results with photographs.

Let's look at the manhole...

Before the test - August 15, 2018
You can see there is about a 50% cover of fairly thick (a few inches) of FOG.

A close-up...

After 1 Day - August 16, 2018
Spreading out a bit...

After 2 Days - August 17, 2018
Still some clumps. Seeing some change in color.

A close-up reveals a change in color to some parts of the scum.

After 3 Days - August 18, 2018
< 50% covered. Change in Color.

A close-up.

After 4 Days - August 19, 2018
Scum not nearly as thick, but covering more of the manhole.

After 5 Days - I was off, so no pics

Today. After 6 Days August 21, 2018
There is still a small film of FOG, but the clumps have dispersed or been consumed.

I'm declaring the demonstration a success.
6 days of using JCW-MS in a problem manhole stimulated the natural biological actions of wastewater enough to clear the manhole of problem FOG.

Additional Notes:

We are also adding 1 quart to each Cell 2 and 3.

Hypothesis: Adding JCW-MS to our facultative lagoon will stimulate the natural occurring process of the lagoon.

Cell 3

August 15, 2018
I noted a film of FOG covering about 25% of Cell 3 and 10% of Cell 2.

August 16, 2018
The film of FOG, duckweed and floating algae are on the south end of the lagoon.

August 17 2018
I no longer note any film of FOG on the surface of either cell 2 or 3, only duckweed and floating algae.

August 18, 2018
The wind has pushed the floating mass to the north side of the lagoon.

August 19, 2018
The wind has pushed the floating mass back to the south side of the lagoon.

August 21, 2018
There is no longer any film of FOG noted on either Cell 2 or 3. The amount of duckweed and floating algae has significantly declined.

Bubbles in the cells

Before starting to use JCW-MS, I would occasionally note bubbles in parts of the lagoons. These were typically seen in the morning and lasted for a few hours. Morning bubbles usually indicate denitrification is occurring.

After 1 day of using JCW-MS, I noted more bubbles occurring over almost the entire surface of the 3 cells. They lasted all morning. They were not there in the afternoon.

After day 3 of using JCW-MS, I noted bubbles occurring over almost the entire surface of the 3 cells for the entire day.

This probably indicates our 1 foot or so of sludge is changing in some positive way and releasing trapped gasses into the atmosphere. NOTE: There is no smell.

Conclusion

We have seen very positive results from adding JCW-MS to our lagoon.

I can recommend using JCW-MS because it stimulates the medium (water) allowing the natural processes which occur in a wastewater plant to work better.