Catalina BioSolutions’ Bioremediation Products

We have recently developed an amazing nutrient for microbes. To boot, it is all-natural with no chemicals added. We are achieving tremendously high plate counts. Now, when looking through a microscope, you will be looking at “wall to wall” colonies. One client had a plate count analysis from his mixing tank before inoculation and the result came back “TNTC” meaning “too numerous to count”! (If you’ve never heard of this term before, it’s an actual technical term used in determining microbial plate count. I am not making this up.)

We’ve known for a long time – both through field tests and from our customers’ project data — that the nutrient portion of a bioremediation job is equally as important as the microbes themselves. So we’ve been continually developing, refining and testing various nutrients to help stimulate and multiply microbes. The augmented microbes that you inject will be stimulated to grow and wax strong, and the indigenous microbes, those already in the soil and water, will grow exponentially.

Essentially, the Biobooster puts the bugs in a feeding frenzy, and they then will devour all sorts of contaminant.

In fact, when sites take longer to close (delaying that all-important pay check!), most of the time the site doesn’t need more microbes; rather, it needs more nutrient. How do we know this? We observe samples under a microscope. And we do this all the time, we do it for free and we’re experienced at seeing what works and what doesn’t.

In fact, when we get samples from a project that is underway but not completed, and one with no visible microbial plate count, one of the things we do is add our Biobooster nutrient to the sample and voila, in about a day we have plate counts that are extraordinarily high, often TNTC.

As a microbial manufacturer, we know that there are two schools of thought regarding bioremediation. One is bio augmentation, where preselected microbes are grown off site, then added to the contamination. The other is stimulation, were microbes that exist on a given site (also known as indigenous microbes) are stimulated to do the cleanup that nature intended. Just now at a highly accelerated rate.

So, what we are saying is that no matter which school of thought you agree with, the use of our microbial nutrient (Biobooster) will help you reach closure levels faster, save you money, and get you paid quicker. Now there’s a refreshing thought!

The ingredients in our newest Biobooster are all natural and no chemicals have been added. There is even a natural surfactant in the mixture. It has a long-lasting effect on the bugs and not much is needed. For example, you just need to mix 4 cups with every 55 gallons of water, then apply. You can mix this with no bugs, your bugs, our bugs, domestic, foreign, even microbes from outer space. Well … maybe not outer space!

So the decision on which — or whose — bugs to buy, or no bugs to buy, becomes not as important as it used to be. Maybe, just maybe, you should just add the Biobooster as a prelimary step, treat and prepare the soil or water, and run some lab tests in 30 days. You might not even have to buy anything else! But if you do, you’ve already prepared the soil or water and the pretreatment will greatly reduce the dollars you spend on microbes. And one last thing, if you do buy bugs, and if you do buy our new Biobooster, you can reduce your bug purchases by 75%!

Eegads! I may have just put all of us bug manufacturers out of business!!

So what we have here is a way to save money by buying no bugs or 75% fewer bugs, reach closure faster, get paid quicker, maybe just maybe only use the indigenous microbes that are already on the site (those are free remember), please the regulators (no harsh chemicals), easy to use (just add to water), requires no storage requirements, requires no wait time, and has an unlimited shelf life. Now that’s really something!

Go ahead, make a call! Buy some of our Biobooster. We sell it in 20 pound quantities and the price depends on how much you order.
Jerry Coon
520.299.9808

P.S. As always, we will test your samples at no charge.

You may have heard these terms bandied around some, especially if you have a contaminated site and are thinking of bioremediation as a cheap and effective clean-up method.

Simply put, bioaugmentation means adding microbes that are grown off site, then added to the site. The nice thing about this approach is that you (we) can determine which microbial blends to use. For example, for petroleum spills, we like to use petroleum-degrading microbes; for manure lagoons, we use manure-degrading bacteria. Pretty simple!

Biostimulation utilizes existing bacteria (microbes) on the site, “indigenous bacteria,” if you will, and stimulating them with nutrients: the cheapest being cow manure, the best being our Biobooster. (It really is the best; in fact some customers that are stuck with another manufacturer’s product will use it to up the microbial plate count!)

Our system is to use both technologies. We like to add the known degrading bacteria, site specific, and at the same time, stimulate the existing bacteria; thus, generating enormous plate counts.

We can just offer to you our Biobooster if you — or the regulators — prefer biostimulation. Before you decide on that, though, you — or we — should determine if you have the proper indigenous microbes. That process takes about two weeks, and we will give you not only the total plate count but the percentage of the good degrading bacteria. There is a fee for that service, and you can call anytime to discuss.

Jerry Coon

520.299.9808