Industry:	Wastewater
Application:	Water Quality
Customer:	Residential and commercial developer
Where:	Mulberry Lake – Kansas City, Missouri
When:	August 2010
SCD Products:	SCD Bio Klean™
SCD Distributor:	OCCU-TEC

Briarcliff Development (Village)
Briarcliff Development is a residential and commercial developer that owns and manages Briarcliff Village, an office, retail, and residential community located just north of Kansas City, Missouri. Briarcliff Village is located on 600 treed acres along with Mulberry Lake (a three-acre body of water).

Customer Problem

Visitors and tenants hold many community related events at Mulberry Lake including festivals. Mulberry Lake has also become a popular gathering point at Briarcliff Village.

Briarcliff Development desired to maintain the lake in a sustainable fashion and did not want to introduce harmful or potentially toxic chemicals into the water in order to eliminate the algae.

Mulberry Lake doubles as a storm water retention area for the surrounding high-end residential community as well as the neighboring Class A office building. Storm water run-off from these highly landscaped areas has led to a nutrient rich environment due to the amount of fertilizers and chemicals used on these landscaped areas. With hot summer weather heating the temperature of the water, algae bloomed and covered most of the shoreline as well as choking off and covering the entirety of the north end of the lake near a small man-made waterfall.

Solution
OCCU-TEC offered an organic solution to essentially manage the current eco-system’s microbial activity through the use of Probiotics technology. OCCU-TEC partnered with SCD Probiotics, a Missouri-based life sciences company, to use SCD Bio Klean, a cost-effective, green solution for controlling algae blooms in water bodies.

Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when applied in sufficient amounts, deliver a health benefit to the host. Traditionally only thought of as beneficial to human health, Probiotics are beneficial microorganisms (lactic bacteria, yeasts and phototropic bacteria) that benefit ALL types of environments.

SCD Probiotics manufactures SCD Bio Klean through a natural fermentation process using beneficial microorganisms. SCD Probiotics microbial strains, or beneficial microorganisms, are grown in what is known as consortia – a co-growth environment – allowing each strain to interact with other strains throughout development. This proprietary method is very similar to how microbes occur in nature, versus the more common practice of growing singular strains in a pure-culture format and then blending different strains together at the time of packaging. This consortia technology is what enables SCD Bio Klean to have high efficacy in a multitude of applications.

All microorganisms utilized in SCD Probiotics are GRAS (generally recognized as safe) listed and non-genetically modified microorganisms. This approach does not introduce new microbial species to these environments; simply put it is the management of populations of pathogenic versus beneficial microorganisms.

When applied consistently and following the proper usage guidelines, SCD Bio Klean can help improve water quality in public and/or private lakes.

Benefits
The biggest benefit of SCD Bio Klean is that it helps to control harmful pathogens and unwanted microbes at the source, rather than waiting for them to show up in lakes and ponds. By targeting agricultural operations, septic systems, boat docks, waterfowl breeding areas and sewer outfalls it is possible to control the amount of harmful bacteria that enters our recreational waters. However, Mulberry Lake has nonpoint source run-off from the surrounding community, not unlike many other community lakes and ponds. Therefore direct application of SCD Bio Klean into the lake water is the best solution.

Products and Services
OCCU-TEC performed the following in order to control the algae blooms at Mulberry Lake. Determined the total volume of lake water by measuring the surface area and known depths (approximately 3,000,000 U.S. gallons of water).

Working with SCD Probiotics technical team, developed an application protocol that would be both cost-effective and beneficial to the ecology of the lake. Spray applied SCD Bio Klean directly onto the algae blooms and surrounding water at a predetermined diluted ratio and application rate to ensure adequate coverage.

Results
OCCU-TEC observed a significant reduction in the size of the algae blooms in as little as 72- hours. A 90% reduction was achieved within 14-days of application of SCD Bio Klean. Due to the constant re-introduction of nutrients and other contaminants in Mulberry Lake via storm water run-off, OCCU-TEC’s protocol called for application of SCD Bio Klean at a rate of ½ of the initial application every two weeks during periods of hot weather (summer).

More information regarding this Case Study can be obtained by contacting:
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