MoS: Raising Funds to Clean Gowanus w/EM-1 Mud Balls!
Help test treat the Gowanus Canal with beneficial microorganisms! The microbial solution eats the waste, breaks down toxins and binds the metals so they can not be absorbed by living things.
Double your money on IOBY this month!
https://ioby.org/project/beneficial-mud-balls-gowanus
Helping at the root of the problem for long-term benefits.
The program includes: workshops and fun interactive educational events!!!!!
- Scientific TESTING w College
- Microorganism EDUCATION through workshops
- Watershed and storm water overflow EDUCATION
- Mud Balling EVENTS
- Mud ball THROWS
Benefits:
- fun fun fun, social, brings people together and exciting
- educational
- simple
- less expensive
- embeds into community for lasting goodness
EM-1 mud balls are an international movement proving time and again creating healthier and healthier eco systems.
Soon people will be diving off the piers to refresh, more space will be available for water activities, fish will be happy, oysters will be back at work, green infrastructure will be in place, spongy edges will be planted and balance will be restored!
To partner or get involved contact.
Ultimately, this comprehensive test will advocate for a city-wide clean-up of our waterways using EM-1 which is a safe, inexpensive, inclusive, naturally occurring dominant food based beneficial microbes.
Clean water here!
https://ioby.org/project/beneficial-mud-balls-gowanus
Click To read an estimate of costs and potential plan of EM-1 mud balls to treat the canal (after tests are successful).
The effective microbes in combinations with bioremediation and natural filtration systems on land and water we can heal the putrid waters of the Gowanus and the Beneficial Mud Balls will accelerate and could eat that 10 feet of sludge.
Please help the water so the water can help us.
https://ioby.org/project/beneficial-mud-balls-gowanus
July 5th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Have you seen the amount of sewage that flows into the Gowanus every time it rains? How do you achieve a “balance” when the infrastructure system is designed to repeatedly, and significantly, unbalance the system with significant amounts of untreated sewage, condoms and all?
So how will you be evaluating this method for it’s effectiveness?
July 7th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Hi, thank you for commenting,
Yes, we are aware of this. It seems daunting but in relativity to other projects the Gowanus is a small system.
The storm water can be decreased with other proposed installations
– for example: On-land swales to catch storm water run off to absorb wash into the ground.
– with on going EM-1 (or similar brand):
– On-going use of EM-1 in daily lives of local businesses and homes
– pouring EM right into CSO areas. (the people who feed pigeons might like to take this on as another pass time if not the city or institution)
– On-going beneficial microbe education and yearly mud ball throws
– On-going education on how to use EM-1 in surrounding households & businesses
I do not know what the exact evaluations will involve right now, however, soon I will learn what is recommend as the method of evaluation. If you have evaluation expertise and have recommendations I will pass along the information. Contact us if you are interested.
Thanks again for your interest and questions.
July 9th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
I just thought Lynn’s observation is interesting, regarding how we should clean up waterways when there may be a huge and ongoing amount of effluence coming into the waterway. The organizer of the “1 million mudball throw” in Penang mentioned exactly the same thing. He said although they have thrown the million mudball into the waterway, there is a huge amount of stuff being continuously drained into the bay. I think he said the source of that pollution needs to be addressed as well.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Yes, Keat thank-you. It’s great that you spoke to the organizer of the Panang mud ball throw when you were home in Malaysia. The effluence here needs to be addressed too. Hopefully, as green infrastructure projects spread also the reduction of the waste into the Gowanus. Projects like Sponge Park will help address that. To increase the use and absorption into the ground of storm run off before it gets to the sewers is important. Things like green roofs, rain catchments, rain gardens, porous pavers all help. We can be using probiotic enzymes as a natural cleaner to help eat the waste also. Starting with restaurants to home toilets to industry, car washes, street cleaning, gas stations etc. A small help would be using natural beauty/home products to help keep chemicals off our skin and out of our water. Then the drugs hospitals pour down the toilet….