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Get Ahead Of Fall Maintenance With Bond's Fall Water Treatment Checklist!   Prepare Your Facility With Bond’s Expertise! As the colder months approach, now is the perfect time to ensure your facility is performing at its best. Bond Water Technologies is here to assist with Cooling System Lay-up Recommendations and our trusted services. Use our comprehensive Fall System Lay-up Checklist to keep your systems running smoothly and efficiently throughout the season. Here's How We Can Help:  Cooling System Lay-Up: Prepare your cooling system for winter storage now to avoid costly repairs and downtime due to corrosion and bacteria buildup in the spring.  Tower Turbo Cleaning Kits: Maximize cooling tower efficiency with our specialized cleaning kits. Algae Guards: Prevent biological growth and keep your water systems clear and clean. Heat Exchanger Cleanings: Enhance heat exchanger performance and extend its lifespan with professional cleanings. Legionella Testing: Stay compliant with health regulations and ensure safe water systems with expert Legionella testing. GSA Drinking Water Testing: Maintain high standards for drinking water quality with GSA-approved testing services. Contact Bond now to schedule your service and protect your facility for the upcoming season. Don’t delay—prepare your systems before the cold hits! Look for more detailed information about each service at the links above.

GSA DRINKING WATER TESTING SAMPLING & REPORTING GUIDELINES Basic GSA drinking water testing guidelines in identifying outlets.  Note: When it comes to GSA drinking water testing guidelines in smaller facilities where 10% calculates to less than 5 outlets/fixtures, a minimum of 5 outlets shall be tested.  If there are less than 5 applicable outlets/fixtures, then test all outlets/fixtures to reach your 5 minimum. This is the only instance where you would test bathroom sinks. Outlets with automatic mixing valves are excluded.  If a facility has less than a total of 5 outlets/fixtures where you fall short of the 5 minimum, just make a note of this in your summary report. Example:  The lease space has 16 sinks, 1 cafe sink, nurses office sink, 3 drinking fountains, 1 high low drinking fountain and 4 showers.  How many tests are needed? In this case, you would test a minimum of 5 outlets for all the water quality parameters (lead/copper, legionella, coliform), 1 shower for legionella only, and the nurse’s office sink for legionella only.  See more details on GSA drinking water testing below.                                                                                                                             Per GSA, tag out the outlet/fixture prior to testing for at least 8 hours and no more than 18 hours.  GSA recommended labels are recommended for the isolated outlet fixture (attached separately).  Recommend that they maintain their current flushing PM program in accordance with their Water Management Plan until the outlet/fixture is tagged out of service.                                                                                                                                    Identify all applicable outlets and locations. You will need a schematic of these locations along with the results at the tested outlets/fixtures. When pulling samples, do not flush the outlet/fixture. For showers, Child Care Centers, Health Units sample the hot water side for Legionella testing.  For the 10% water outlets/fixtures that are tested for Legionella, lead, copper, and total coliform your “first draw” should be for the metals sample with your “second draw” for the Legionella/coliform sample.                                                                                                                     Take pictures of the bar codes on the sample bottles and the corresponding outlet/fixture(s) that you have on the chain of custody. You will need these pictures for your GSA report that you send to the customer.                          [...]

Reduce Your Wastewater Costs!    We are often asked to help evaluate and reduce a plants wastewater expenses. Whether they have clarifiers, generic settling tanks or dissolved air flotation systems, the common thread seems to be they are trying to get the water as “clean” as possible before sending it down the drain. The first thing we ask a prospect is how do they quantify if the treated water is OK to send down the drain. Typically we are told “we like to see clear water, almost like you drink it”. While this is fantastic, it is also a tremendous waste of your wastewater treatment chemicals. First, the POTW sets treatment levels – a top number not to exceed (NOV – Notice of Violation). These numbers are set based on what the POTW’s treatment facility can handle. Second, the POTW will have surcharges on certain things in your effluent. So not only are you paying to treat your wastewater at your facility, but you are also paying to treat your wastewater at their facility. Why in the heck would you want to spend a lot of money on specialty treatment chemicals to have your effluent so clean that you could “almost drink it” and on the back side you will still be surcharged? The key is to find a happy medium by producing an effluent that meets your permit and balances expenditures on your pretreatment chemicals and surcharges. OK, sounds great…..how do you do this?Common permit limits will be pH, BOD/COD, FOG and TSS. Typically, these all work hand in hand. If one of these is elevated, they all will be elevated (assuming that the BOD/COD is insoluble). First, your specialty chemical company needs to work with you to develop a few KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) and provide monthly service visits (minimum) to verify your chemical feed rates by jar testing to ensure program success. Typically, pH will be critical to the performance of your coagulant/polymer along with a range in your effluent that is on your permit. So for pH you should have a KPI for the treatment process and a KPI for the effluent. The next KPI is measuring turbidity in your effluent and correlating to your TSS that is measured by the POTW. When the POTW has the composite sampler in your effluent, just ask them for a 10 ml sample so that you can test the turbidity and then you can correlate the turbidity with the TSS. Measuring pH and turbidity and a weekly control calibration will take only a few minutes and should be documented by your supplier. Bond Water has an on-line reporting system that allows the customer to input their readings along with additional notes that get emailed to various contacts within the account. This allows us to give additional oversight as a consultant and advise between service visits.Here's an example of jar testing and using [...]

DAF treatment system advice turns a potential client into a Bond Water customer and saves them thousands of dollars in yearly chemical costs! John Dunford, Bond Water's regional manager for Southern Virginia,  and the Carolina’s is an expert in wastewater treatment. John's analysis and advice to this new Bond client will save an estimated $150,000 per year in chemicals and it will eliminate NOVs/surcharges. The below LinkedIn video post from John has been viewed over 66,750 times and shows why Bond Water Technologies has been known as an innovator in the water treatment industry for over 20 years.  We can handle all of your water treatment needs.  Cooling Water, Boiler Water, Lab/Legionella Testing, Wastewater, and HVAC Rehab! For water treatment updates and tips, follow Bond Water Technologies on LinkedIn by clicking here. We also encourage you to follow John on LinkedIn here by clicking here.