Sustainable Land Development Today - January 2008 - (Page 26) Industry Spotlight KriStar Enterprises, Inc. Introduces the FloGard ® Perk Filter Continuing its long history of providing innovative stormwater management solutions to the development industry, KriStar Enterprises, Inc., is pleased to announce the addition of a cartridge media filter, the Perk Filter, to its family of FloGard® products for post-construction Best Management Practices (BMPs). The Perk Filter has been developed to address those filtration situations where increasingly higher levels of pollutant removals are being mandated today in urban developments across the United States. Impervious surfaces and other urban and suburban landscapes generate a variety of contaminants that can enter stormwater, polluting downstream receiving waters. The Perk Filter captures and retains sediment, oils, metals and other target constituents close to the source and reduces the total discharge load. The Perk Filter cartridge is manufactured from durable polymeric components with a polymer-coated, steel support screen and stainless steel hardware. Its base construction allows it to be used with a wide variety of media that has been chosen to address site-specific pollutants of concern. Perk Filters may be installed as a retrofit to suitable existing curb-inlet, drop-inlet, or combination catchbasins, as an integral part of a coated steel- or concrete-housed stormwater inlet system for commercial, residential, and industrial developments, or as centralized modular treatment system installed either on-line or off-line. With its modular and scalable of a system that will not only deliver design, the Perk Filter provides a sim- the initial performance needs, but one ple and low-cost solution for installa- that can be sustained over the life of a tion and long-term maintenance. The project. SLDT wide variety of media-filter selection allows the user to attack the specific For more information on the Perk Filter or the pollutants of concern in your commu- extensive line of sediment control and post-construction stormwater BMPs call 800-579-8819 or nity. visit www.kristar.com Extensive testing was recently completed at the Office of Water Programs at California State University, Sacramento, in order to establish the pollutant-removal efficiencies for the Perk Filter with different filter media types. Ongoing field studies will be used to further supplement and support this information. As the development community faces mandates for pollutant removal levels of ever-decreasing particle size, the generation of this data allows KriStar to create project specific solutions that are viable and cost effective. By combining its product technical expertise with the practi“The cal field experience FloGard® Perk Filter gained through its ™ is shown above in a catch basin stormwater BMP mainte- inlet arrangement with a pre-treatment grated entry nance operation, Drainage chamber. Arrangements with multiple cartridges and direction Protection Systems, the of stormwater flow are easily configured to suit site-specific developer can be assured requirements. “ 26 January 2008 Sustainable Land Development Today http://www.kristar.com
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