ElectroHemp cleanup system fixes this

Daily I read about a situation where the ElectroHemp Remediation and Prevention system would save both Business and Public money whether its EPA fines or by cities large and small that have to clean up the water before it is sold to the public.

This latest Iowa cattle feedlot if it would have incorporated a Buffer Zone and or Electrokinetics System the pollution could have been prevented.  

            Lessoning Agriculture Field Water Runnoff Pollution

 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 - 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, KS 66219 Serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations Iowa Cattle Feedlot Penalized for Clean Water Act Violations Contact Information: Ben Washburn, 913-551-7364, washburn.ben@epa.gov Environmental News 

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Lenexa, Kan., Dec. 9, 2020) - A judge has ruled in favor of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and fined Tony and Joshua Brown of Armstrong, Iowa, a $76,000 penalty for violating the federal Clean Water Act. The brothers, doing business as Riverview Cattle, discharged pollutants from their cattle feedlot on 41 days into the East Fork of the Des Moines River, according to the judge’s ruling. “We are encouraged by Judge Coughlin’s ruling,” said David Cozad, director of EPA Region 7’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division. “Animal feedlot pollution is a serious threat to our nation’s waters and this ruling sends the right message that feedlot owners must comply with the law.” Animal feeding operations that contain over 300 head of cattle and discharge pollutants through man-made conveyances to streams and rivers are required to obtain a Clean Water Act permit and take measures to minimize or eliminate discharges of pollutants in stormwater runoff from their facilities. According to the court ruling, Riverview Cattle repeatedly discharged stormwater containing pollutants through an underground pipe that drained into the river, without having obtained a permit. Despite Riverview’s assertion that pollutants never reached the river, Administrative Judge Christine Donelian Coughlin upheld EPA’s observations, modeling, and other evidence, and found the feedlot liable for Clean Water Act violations. Runoff from animal feeding operations regularly contains bacteria, ammonia, and oxygen-depleting substances that are toxic to aquatic life and potentially harmful to people. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources determined that the East Fork of the Des Moines River is impaired for recreational use due to high levels of bacteria, in part resulting from runoff from feedlots. 

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Trees Shrubs as Farm Buffer Zones

Trees and Shrubs growing along the edge of fields act as Farm Buffer Zones and clean farm runoff which protect streams and waterways from toxins and pollutants

RIPARIAN FOREST BUFFERS are trees, shrubs, and grasses located next to rivers, streams, and lakes to help protect aquatic resources by filtering farm runoff and preventing erosion. Buffer areas can support wildlife habitat, produce crops, improve water quality, and reduce flood damage.

Riparian forest buffers are natural or re-established streamside forests made up of tree, shrub, and grass plantings. They buffer non-point source pollution of waterways from adjacent land, reduce bank erosion, protect aquatic environments, enhance wildlife, and increase biodiversity.USDA

Tools

• Conservation Buffers: Design Guidelines for Buffers, Corridors, and Greenways
• Buffer$
• AgBufferBuilder: A Filter Strip Design Tool for GIS
• Riparian Bibliography (Vegetated Stream Riparian Zones: Their Effects on Stream Nutrients, Sediments, and Toxic Substances)

Add Trees to the Plants as Water Protectors 

STL Bioremediation and Erosion Control

Those black snake looking net tubes that are used to control erosion are also bioremediation filters.

These images are from the same  area of StLouis with the 3 Basin Water Pollution and Filtration setup that cleans pollution from water runoff from a stlouis city street and building parking lots.

Here's some close up images showing how well these dentrifying bioremediation systems work when placed at or near ground level.







The erosion control filters are performing an outstanding job.

Notice the uphill side in the images above, the soil and organic matter is building up? This proves the filters are trapping the soil runnoff before it travels into the waterway below.

Yes those are wood chips in the black snake netting

This also means any contaminants in the water runnoff are also filtered in this modified dentrifying biofilter.

StL Plants As Water Protectors

Recently I was in a suburb of StLouis City and happened across this 3 Basin Water Pollution and Filtration setup that cleans pollution from water runoff from a stlouis city street and building parking lots.

Bioremediation and Phytoremediation are the 2 forms of water pollution filtration and cleanup used in this real life St.Louis example. The microbes are the workhorses with this bioremediation system.

A site inspection revealed a 3 level catch basin design. Each catch basin draining into the "downhill" basin below. Each water catch basin also appears to be geared for different contaminant and toxin removal.

Middle Water Filtration Catch Basin

Middle Water Filtration Catch Basin

Upper Water Filtration Catch Basin

Gravel Base Middle Basin

small gravel bioremediation filtration

Each water basin allows the time needed for the toxins and contaminants the opportunity to mingle and the microbes and plant roots. 

This allows the microbes a homebase to feast and break down the contaminants and plant roots the time needed to phytoextract contaminants.

The middle basin with the gravel base is very similar to how a sand filtration system works in a fish tank. The gravel and rocks provide a safe home for the microbes to thrive.

The microbes are the workhorses with this bioremediation system.

Lessoning Agriculture Field Water Runnoff Pollution

 Agriculture contaminants is one of the 3 pollution sources quoted in EWG's Tap Water Database: Pollution Sources and is one reason ElectroHemp has been sharing ways farmers can use buffer zones, filter strips with phytoremediation to lesson field pollution runoff scenarios.

Agriculture

Agricultural activities are one of the main sources of water pollution for U.S. rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands and groundwater. Each year, farm operators apply more than 12 million tons of nitrogen fertilizer and 8 million tons of phosphorous fertilizer to cropland, some of which runs off into water sources.

Manure is another important source of water contamination. It’s estimated that livestock produce up to 1 billion tons of manure each year, and runoff from farms and feedlots can be laden with sediments and disease-causing microorganisms. And many pesticides have no federally mandated limits for drinking water, which means utilities and their customers have no benchmark to know if the amount of a specific pesticide in water is safe.

Many water utilities in farm country are forced to treat water supplies to remove agriculture-related pollutants, often relying on expensive processes such as carbon treatment and ion exchange. Despite utilities' efforts, agricultural contaminants are detected in the drinking water served to millions of Americans each year.


Source: EWG's Tap Water Database: Pollution Sources

Remediation Terminology Definitions

Frequently used Soil and Water definitions ElectroHemp uses  when sharing the BioRad system and process which organically cleans Water and Soil in the Phyto-Enhanced system.

Phytoremediation is defined by UNEP as the living green plants for in sutu removal, degradtion, and containment in soils, surface waters, and groundwater.

Bioremediation is a process that uses mainly microorganisms, plants, or microbial or plant enzymes to detoxify contaminates in the soil and other environments.

Contamination is defined as any impairment of the quality of the water of the State by sewage or industrial waste to a degree which creates an actual hazard to public health thru poisoning or through the spread of infectious disease.

Heavy Metals are defined as the metals that have an atomic mass greater than 20 and are transition metals, metalloids, actinides, and lanthanides.

Toxicity is the ability of a substance to cause a living organism to undergo adverse effects upon exposure.

Missouri Politicians and MO Dept Ag

It's time to get proactive instead of reactive and create the infastructure needed to capitalize on the budding Hemp Industry.

One of the ways Hemp can help the State of Missouri is by removing the pollution in soil and water with the system ElectroHemp has designed 

It's not Rocket Science it's Phyto Science. The Magic Happens in the Roots of the Plants as they absorb the pollution. Scotty link

Kentucky quickly submits its hemp oversight plan to USDA

By BRUCE SCHREINER, December 20, 2018

In 2018, Kentucky farmers planted more than 6,700 acres (2,710 hectares) of hemp — more than twice last year’s production, according to the state’s agriculture department. More than 70 Kentucky processors are turning the plant into products. Those processors paid $7.5 million to Kentucky growers in 2017 to help supply hemp and reported $16.7 million in gross product sales, the state agriculture department said.

That’s barely a blip on the radar for Kentucky’s diversified agriculture sector.

But the state’s agriculture department received more than 1,000 applications from farmers and processors looking to participate in the 2019 hemp program. In another sign of hemp’s growing popularity, an informational and networking session in October in Elizabethtown drew about 750 farmers, processors, manufacturers and others interested in hemp, the department said.

ElectroHemp Hydroponic Remediation Examples

Water Pollution Clean Up Contamination Removal - Pilot Study Option 11A and 12A .

Water pump circulates contaminated water through the plant roots which phytoextract the toxins.

Testing Highlights

Each Stage allows for determining the reduction in water contamination levels (11A).

• Reduction per plant, stage, and total.
• Financial Costs of phytoremediation
• Length of Time Required for Total, Partial phytoextraction of contamination.
• Before, During, After Plant phyto-location tests: Roots, Stalk, Leaves, Seeds

It's not Rocket Science it's Phyto Science 

The Magic Happens in the Roots of the Plants as they absorb the pollution.

Infographic by Scotty scottscontracting@gmail.com

Water Pollution Clean Up Contamination Removal - Pilot Study Option 11A. 4 Stage Water cleanup testing station. Hydroponic toxic removal.

Water Pollution Clean Up Contamination Removal Pilot Study Option 12A. 

Testing Option- Individual Plant Pots

Electro Hemp Bio Rad
Water Pollution Clean Up Contamination Removal
Pilot Study Option 12A.
Testing Options Individual Plant Pots
>Water
Clean or Contaminated Water
Clean or Contaminated Growing Mediums

>Plant
Before During and Growth Stages
Harvestime Toxic Translocation pic.twitter.com/Xqu2C5Ma1l

— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) June 20, 2018

ElectroHemp wants to take the Science to the Field

Seeking Missouri Farmers Agribiz opportunity

MISSOURI FARMERS AND AGRIBUSINESS PERSONNEL MOHEMP ENERGY WANTS TO WORK WITH YOU AND IS ACTIVELY SEEKING

Partners, Investors, Advisers, Team Members, Farmers- who are interested in: Biomass, Biofuels, Hemp Lignin, Energy Conserving Building Products, Hemp Oil, Hemp Fibers, Hemp Hurds, Medical Cannabis, Phytoremediation, Phytoextraction.

Eligible Practices Cost Share Assistance CRP program USA Farmers

information on the Conservation Reserve Program and how Hemps great phytoremediation abilities could play a role in lessening chemical-laden water runoff into rivers.

Eligible Practices: For this [Conservation Reserve Program aka CRP] signup, the land must be eligible and suitable for any of the following conservation practices:

Grass Waterways, Non-easement
Shallow Water Area for Wildlife
Filter Strips
Denitrifying Bioreactor on Filter Strips
Saturated Filter Strips
Riparian Buffer
Denitrifying Bioreactor on Riparian Buffers
Saturated Riparian Buffer
Wetland Restoration on Floodplain
Wetland Restoration, Non-floodplain
Farmable Wetlands Pilot Wetland
Farmable Wetland Pilot Buffer
Duck Nesting Habitat
FWP Constructed Wetland
FWP Aquaculture Wetland restoration
FWP Flooded Prairie Wetland

Cost-Share Assistance: Cost-share of up to 50 percent of the re-reimbursable cost of installing the practice is provided by FSA.