ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION Microbes are Natures Janitors Individual Microbes reduce specific pollutants. A Microbial Consortium can reduce all organic pollutants By: Ralph Elliott (Butch) Enviro Water Quality Restoration, LLC 904-545-0377 elliottriii@msn.com

Natures Way Ecosystems are always in a very delicate balance but left alone they can take care of themselves because of indigenous microbes. They have all the necessary microbes in them to keep their balance as part of their natural make up. When they get out of balance the obvious way to help them get back in balance is by adding more Microbes or Bio-remediation. I am not here to give you a science lesson nor do I have time to even address the microbial processes. So I would like to briefly go over the handouts I have provided and tell you that Ms. Matthews has a complete project history booklet electronically and can email it to anyone who wants to know more.

The first document is an Abstract to help explain what my company does. It talks about the pros and cons of ecosystem restoration using physical and chemical processes and the drawbacks to both. Then the rest of the document describes the advantages to Bio-remediation using our microbial consortium that contains hundreds of microbial species.

The second document is the cover to one of the booklet I mentioned earlier and the Table of contents plus a two page report on a project at a Bible Camp Swimming Lake It is one of 13 Project reports in that booklet that have been completed using our unique consortium of microbes. This particular project was picked because it was a Lake where children at Bible Camp swim. The local health department approved it and cleared the use as safe for human swimming.

Jacksonville Zoo Swan Pond This project was a very short one as it was no cost to the Zoo. We had contacted them about a year earlier to see if they had a need for our services after I had taken my grandchildren to the Zoo and noticed some very polluted ponds. They finally call when their Swans started getting sick. We only made two applications on the small pond but the results were amazing. We reduced the nitrate and nitrite by 100% The Fecal Coliform went from 36,000 CFU to 4,600 CFU. And the improvements continued three month past our last application

Project results This is an overview of nine projects to show that in addition to the pollutant removal we also consistently reduce organic bottom sediment.

Florida Department of Environmental Protection Department’s Technology Library This letter took nearly two full years of back and forth correspondence and when finally issued I felt like bronzing it and putting in a library of it own. It basically says FDEP agrees that the Microbe-Lift consortium will remove organic pollutants and muck from ecosystems.

Bio-remediation Cost savings This document has two examples. The first I put together a while ago to try to convince the City to let me pre- treat Big Fishweir Creek before the Corps of Engineers started a dredging project. There are a lot of unknowns in an Ecosystem Restoration but, based on the COE documentation publicly released, the City could have saved $1,373,000 by giving me the opportunity to use our Bio-remediation application on Big Fishweir Creek. Some time after I sent this recommendation to the City, they asked the COE to put the project on hold. If they did the application the product would only cost $88,056 and in kind service would be credited based on removing 58889 CY at the COE rate. The Craig Creek example is just one of ten or so possibilities. Product cost if application was done inhouse would be about $18,450.00.

Q&A from the Florida Office of Agricultural Water Policy and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services These are typical questions asked by Agencies as they explore whether they are willing to accept our technology. Most had already been answered during our discussions with FDEP

Jacksonville Waterways Commission 13 March 2019 Thank You and Let’s get it clean and keep it so.