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This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake. As Ornes writes, our current understanding of the mechanisms adopted by the pond skater is down to the efforts of David Hu, who as a mathematics graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent four years studying their behaviour. Hu, along with his...

New PondLyfe aerators from Vertex offer a professional quality aeration system at an affordable price for water gardens and smaller ponds up to 1.5 acres in size. PondLyfe aerators benefit small pond owners who want the best available technology to restore their ponds to a cleaner, clearer and healthier condition naturally. (PRWEB) May 06, 2012 New PondLyfe aerators from Vertex address the growing need for a professional quality aeration system at an affordable price for water gardens and...

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Organic Pond is pleased to announce that the Organic Materials Research Institute (OMRI) has reviewed the company's PureBacteria+ Biological Pond Muck Reducer and has listed PureBacteria+ for use in organic production. "PureBacteria+ is a fast-acting, natural, organic pond cleaner that balances the nutrient load in a pond or lake by digesting decaying organic matter such as fish waste and decaying algae and weeds. The results are a...

JUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- While the choice to integrate a pond into one's garden, landscape or golf course generally results in the overall enhancement and beauty of the landscape, many consumers do not realize the amount of work that goes into maintaining that beauty. Over time, contaminants inevitably begin to build up and create unsightly and foul-smelling sludge. Fortunately Bio S.I. Technology (www.biositechnology.com) has developed a break-through formula that...

Unpermitted Pond Construction Destroyed Two Acres of Wetlands, Impacted Trout-Stocked Fishery HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection announced today that Francois Bitz, of Baden, Beaver County, will pay $137,800 in civil penalties as part of a consent order and agreement for violating the state's Clean Streams Act and the Dam Safety & Encroachment Act. Bitz will also pay cost-recovery and oversight costs to DEP and the...

The Mobile Alum Injection Device (MAID) specifically addresses problems associated with high levels of soluble nutrient loads or pollutants in storm water runoffs and retention ponds. Apopka, FL (PRWEB) July 29, 2011 The Lakes Department of Aquatic Eco-Systems, Inc., located in Apopka, FL, proudly presents the Mobile Alum Injection Device, known as MAID. The MAID unit uses a state-of-the-art alum injection system and contains 5,000 gallons of liquid aluminum sulfate (alum), an automated...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the aeration equipment market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Aeromix Systems, Inc. with the 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Green Excellence in Product Innovation for designing and manufacturing the Eco Aeration product line. With the Eco Aeration products, Aeromix has been successful in expanding its product line and enabling customers to reduce chemical costs, and eliminate electrical...

Seven-year experiment shows that pond communities bear a lasting imprint of random events in their pastScientist Jon Chase once worked in a lab that set up small pond ecosystems for experiments on species interactions and food webs."We would try to duplicate pond communities with a given experimental treatment," he says."We put 10 of this species in each pond, and five of these species, and eight of the other species, and 15 milliliters of this nutrient and 5 grams of that and...

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- "It's a miracle," says a large pond owner in New York; "best money I have ever spent," says another. What are these folks raving about? Clean Clear Blue by Organic Pond, an all-in-one treatment for large ponds. Organic Pond developed Clean Clear Blue - a blend of Pond Dye and beneficial bacteria - as an alternative to using chemicals to limit excessive plant and algae growth. "In the pond world we have been employing beneficial bacteria or...

Renewable energy methods hold hope for terminus lake water quality worldwideEcosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane distillation system powered by renewable energy."These lakes "“ hundreds worldwide "“ such as the Great Salt Lake, the Salton Sea, the Aral Sea and Walker Lake here in Nevada, see a decline in water...