The Rural Voice, 2001-06, Page 56Research Scrap Book
Necessity the mother of Bruce invention
A problem with bacterial
contamination of the well on his
Arran-Elderslie Township farm ended
up being the inspiration for Henry
Bandomir to create a new product and
a new company to produce and sell it.
The new product, called a Jet
Chlorinator, helps deal with the
problem of "shocking" a well to clear
up bacterial infections.
Bandomir, a retired Ontario Hydro
construction equipment superintend-
ent, first tried to cure his problem the
usual way, by applying the prescribed
amount of liquid bleach for the depth
and volume of the well, stirring it up,
running the taps until he could smell
chlorine, then leaving it overnight. But
several attempts didn't solve the
problem so he decided there had to be
a better way to apply the chlorine to
the well.
He built a prototype using a
stainless steel container which would
hold the chlorine plus a discharge
nozzle that would spray the chlorine
in a 360 pattern. The chlorine would
be forced out by water pressure from a
hose attached to a coupling at the top
of the container. The apparatus
worked and he thought others could
use it too.
The Injector does not involve con-
stant chlorination of your well water,
explains Karlis Bite who became
Bandomir's partner in Cleanwell
International, the company formed to
manufacture and market the device.
"You only use it as you need it."
It's been designed to be used with
Ontario Ministry of Health guidelines
which call for three separate testings
of your well each year. If during those
tests you encounter a problem with
bacteria, you can use the Jet
Chlorinator to purify the well.
The production version of the
chlorinator is a two -foot -long by four -
inch diameter PVC canister. The
canister is filled with the necessary
amount of bleach to purify the well
(the unit comes with an instruction
manual which reproduces MOH
recommendations of how much bleach
to use for both dug and drilled wells).
The unit is attached to a garden
hose to provide the pressure. The
chlorinator is then lowered into the
well. The company recommends the
unit be activated about 12 inches
above the water line in the well so it
will spray down the walls of the
casing above the water, killing any
bacteria growing in this area.
The unit is then lowered down into
the water all the way to the bottom of
the well. It takes one to two minutes to
discharge all the chlorine in the unit so
the speed of lowering the unit should
be timed with the discharge rate. The
chlorinator evenly disperses and
mixes the chlorine into the water.
For a drilled well, a special hose is
attached to the unit, then fed down to
the well to the bottom. The unit is act-
ivated and the hose pulled slowly up-
ward — taking three to four minutes.
The Jet Chlorinator costs $495 plus
a dollar a foot for hose for a drilled
well.°
Soy deodorant wins second spot
Two students at Ridgetown College received second place honours in this
year's Project SOY for their efforts in demonstrating an anti-perspirant made
from soy meal, soyoil, beeswax essential oils and other fragrances.
Krystyna Czarnik of Toronto and Alicia Gabourie of Kitchener created the
product called Soy'Perb and took it to the Project SOY competition at the
University of Guelph earlier in April.
In first spot for diploma students was Kemptville with a product called
Udderly Soyft, a lavender scented udder balm for cows. First place in the degree
category went to three Guelph students who created an edible and biodegradable
food packaging tray called Soylutions Inc.
Project SOY is an event, which began in 1996 and its purpose is to harness
the creativity of students in finding innovative new uses for soybeans. It is
sponsored by First Line Seeds and the University of Guelph, with additional
support from Ontario Soybean Growers and Maple Leaf Foods International.°
— Source: Ridgetown College
52 THE RURAL VOICE
Value of hog
manure enhanced
by high nitrogen
prices
Take a new look at that liquid
hog manure in your manure tank,
an Alberta Agriculture specialist
says. It may look brown but it
could be liquid gold.
With the high cost of nitrogen
fertilizer, hog manure is a potential
income source, not a waste
problem, says Art Lange. "We're
trying to convince"crop farmers of
the value of hog manure."
He has analyzed the amount of
nitrogen and phosphorous in liquid
hog manure. He estimates 35
pounds of nitrogen in every 1,O
gallon's of manure. In the same
volume there is II pounds of
phosphorous. The combined
amount of nitrogen and
phosphorus is estimated to be
worth $19.20 this year, up from
$14.96 in 2000. Nitrogen costs
have increased to 40 cents a pound
iri 2001 compared to 27 cents in
2000. Phosphorus costs have
increased from 35 cents to 40
cents in the same period, Lange
says.
"There is a product here and it
has value," Lange says. "The
image we're trying to change is
hog manure from a waste product
to a resource."
To really get Alberta hog
producers' attention, Lange
calculates the value of the manure
from a 600 -sow, farrow -to -finish
operation or a 5,200 feeder pig
operation. Typically that sized unit
would have a 3 million gallon
lagoon. The value of the nitrogen
and phosphorus found in that
lagoon have soared to $32,100 this
year from $19,380 last year, he
estimated.
"That's an incredible amount of
money and something hog
producers should make every
effort to recover in application on
their own fields or selling manure
to their neighbours," Lange says.°
— Source: Western Producer