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Clean Marine Solutions’ Manual Powerwash Wastewater Treatment System

As featured in the 2011 December issue of Professional BoatBuilder magazine

Clean Marine Solutions manufactures wastewater treatment and recycle systems designed to remove heavy metals and other contaminates that are typically found in powerwash wastewater. Our VANISH systems are automated and come with all necessary sensors, pumps, mixers, tanks, valves and plumbing. Treatment operations and processes are monitored and controlled by our proprietary Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).  The VANISH product line has systems capable of treating thousands of gallons of wastewater daily with the push of a button.

We realized that in this tough economy, some small boatyards and marinas would have to cease boat-washing operations or face fines from environmental compliance authorities. We have developed a low-cost manual wastewater treatment system that produces clarified water to the same industry leading standards that our VANISH systems produce.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Why not simply have our wastewater hauled off-site? There are several reasons. But the bottom line business reason is that treating wastewater on-site is much cheaper than having the wastewater hauled-off.

For example, assume your yard generates 3,000 gallons of wastewater per year. Haul fees are generally $0.60 or more per gallon. So the annual haul fees would be $1,800.00 or more. An increasing number of licensed waste haulers now require the testing of wastewater to determine precisely what chemicals / toxins are in the wastewater BEFORE they will pick it up. These tests can easily cost from $250 – $500.

The Manual Treatment System’s supplies cost about $0.03 per gallon or about $90.00 for 3,000 gallons.

*Supply costs are good faith estimates and are not guaranteed. Chemical costs, like all commodities, are subject to fluctuations. Each yard’s savings will vary.

With our manual treatment system, you can pay for the system and maybe save a couple of hundred dollars in the first year. In subsequent years, your annual savings may be more than $1,000.

The link below is to the July 2011 Marina Dockage magazine’s on-line newsletter. In the lead article, Clean Marine Solutions’ CEO David Flagler lays out the bottom-line advantages of going clean and green now.

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Download pdf -  Powerwash Wastewater Containment Pads

Heavy Duty Wastewater Containment Pads are Tough and Portable

They are designed to take the wear and tear of driving 18 – wheelers on and off the pad.

The military buys thousands of theses pads to collect wastewater generated from powerwashing tanks and trucks

Boats and Vehicles can drive in from any angle, with no sidewall set-up or take-down required.

The foam ring around the top perimeter of the Containment Berm rises with the water

Helps meet EPA Container Storage Regulation 40 CFR 264.175 and SPCC requirements

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North Carolina’s First Boatyard to have their Powerwash Recycle Operations Permitted and in Environmental Compliance

Specialty Boatworks, 262 Battleship Road, Bellville, NC is the first in the state to have its powerwashing operations brought onto environmental compliance and permitted by North Carolina Department of Natural and Environmental Resources Division of Water Quality.

Specialty Boatworks purchased a VANISH 300™ Marina Wastewater Recycle System from Clean Marine Solutions in July, 2010. Specialty Boatworks requested and received “Deemed Permitted” status per NC State Administrative Code 15A NCAC 02T.

“Deemed Permitted” status means that Specialty Boatworks did not have to go through the expensive full permitting process.

Using Clean Marine Solutions’ VANISH 300 and Closed-Loop Recycle Environmental Compliance Plan it only cost Specialty the price of a stamp to receive a permit. An environmental consulting company estimated that Specialty saved over $8,000 by not having to go through the full recycle permitting process. Thousands of savings will continue to be realized at Specialty because compliance authorities waived the standard requirement that a licensed wastewater operator run the system. This is another key advantage of the VANISH 300 that sets it above the competition.

Click here to open article  – Clean Marine Solutions featured in Marina World magazine

What are the benefits of environmental compliance?   What are the challenges?

Click link to here Barbara Jean Walsh of Professional BoatBuilder magazine interview David Flagler of Clean Marine Solutions.

David will also tell you how to build a wastewater containment pad for under $400. This pad works great until you can afford a more permanent containment pad.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ProBoatRadio/2009/09/15/Clean-Marine-Solutions

http://www.wwaytv3.com/node/17669

Vanish 300 featured on WWAY  TV Evening News.

In the new (NC) Boating Service Industry News, Mike Bradley offers an excellent summary of the state’s tough new NCG19 permitting requirements.

He notes that:

“…  it now appears that every company using a powerwash system will have to be permitted.”

See full article and pertinent links at:

http://www.ncwaterways.com/BusinessAssistance/TradeWinds/2009TW/09-8/stormwater.htm

If you are in the marine industry in NC , we strongly advise that you sign up for the free newsletter at:

NCWaterways.com

Clean Marine Solutions, LLC (CMS) has been awarded a North Carolina Green Business Fund Grant of $84,600 to fund their business concept that offers an affordable solution for boat yards and marinas to meet environmental compliance standards. The grant is administered by the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology.  Governor Bev Perdue announced the award at a press conference at the corporate headquarters of Innovatech in Morrisville, NC on August 7.

David Flagler, Clean Marine Solutions President, says the goal of the project is to reduce the negative environmental impact caused by discharge of copper-laden, toxic wastewater that is generated from power washing boats. “Our unique ‘no-discharge’ prototype reduces a 50 gallon drum of toxic wastewater to less than a cup of dry particulate that is easily permitted for disposal.”

CMS, based in Wilmington, North Carolina, designs and manufactures wastewater treatment systems and offers environmental compliance consulting services for marine service facilities that decide to take the next step in their “Go Green” initiatives and bring their power wash operations in alignment with the Federal Clean Water Act.

“Copper is the most common heavy metal found in marina waters,” Flagler says. ”It negatively impacts the marine eco-system in a variety of ways.”

For example, a healthy oyster removes oxygen-depleting nitrogen as it filters more than 50 gallons of water a day. But copper reduces the natural cleansing ability of oysters and other mollusks, and affects their ability to reproduce.

“The impact of toxic wastewater discharge increases exponentially as mollusks and algae are eaten by animals higher on the food chain,” says Flagler.

There are presently few service boat yards or marinas in North Carolina, and relatively few nation-wide, whose power washing operations are in compliance with the Federal Clean Water Act.

According to Flagler, the grant will provide money for custom systems at four North Carolina marine service facilities.   The goal of Clean Marine Solutions is to help boat yards and marinas comply with the Federal Clean Water Act.

Flagler was formerly a tenured professor and director of the Marine Education and Training Center at Honolulu Community College, University of Hawai’i. He is also the former director of the North Carolina Marine Training and Education Center at Carteret Community College.

Flagler studied chemistry at the University of North Carolina and conducted his first experiments in marine wastewater treatment at Cape Fear Community College 20 years ago.

For sixteen years, he taught hands-on classes in the broad array of skills necessary to manufacture and service pleasure craft and trained marina operators and students in environmental compliance and marine wastewater treatment system operation.