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What Is a Restorer?

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Restorers are an assembly of engineered ecologies incorporated into floating rafts to perform three main tasks. They can treat wastewater and sewage in constructed lagoons or canals. They can help maintain pond or reservoir health. Additionally, they are used to "restore" stressed or polluted bodies of water back to health. These 'floating islands' are not only functional, but quite beautiful.

Acting as chemostats, Restorers utilize the widely recognized benefits of fixed bio-films to accelerate the natural processes found in a river, lake, pond or constructed lagoon by:

Introducing oxygen and circulation to the stressed environment that often lacks sufficient oxygen-rich surface areas necessary to maintain a balanced ecology;
Utilizing native higher plants and artificial media as bio-film substrate to support rich microbial, algae and animal communities;
Acting as a chemostat and incubator by producing great volumes of beneficial microorganisms that flow into the surrounding water and feed on excess nutrients and organic pollutants; and
Providing opportunities for benthic communities to establish themselves in the bottom areas that were once oxygen poor.

Efficient airlift pumps and fine-bubble air diffusion systems add oxygen to the water as well as circulate water and nutrients over the Restorer's biological surfaces to stimulate the natural healing process. It is the complete body of water which treats itself.