Algae Solutions
What is algae?
Aquatic microorganisms that develop by plant-like photosynthesis using light, water, and inorganic nutrients, allowing them to thrive in eutrophic water conditions.
What does algae do?
By dominating the top water level, cyanobacterial blooms damage the aquatic ecology and diminish biodiversity. Physically, they prevent competing phytoplankton species from growing by blocking direct sunlight, and chemically, they allow cyanobacteria to defend their home place.
introducing Lake Guard
Lake Guard™ technology, a targeted treatment against cyanobacteria, selectively eliminates and prevents toxic algae blooms in lakes irrespective of size or shape.
Lake Guard is administered as a dry granular, eco-friendly powder certified safe that floats in the water, limiting effective concentrations to the surface areas where cyanobacteria are most prevalent.
Lake Guard moves downstream with cyanobacterial cells, transported by the currents, and develops a perfect spatial formation around cyanobacterial aggregates.
This means that Lake Guard optimizes the exposure ratio between algaecide and cyanobacteria-cells throughout the procedure, lowering the effective dose.
Lake Guard can (and should) be used as soon as the first symptoms of cyanobacterial activity are detected, and in tiny amounts, to prevent blooms from occurring.
The Lake Guard treatment can be scaled up to enormous quantities of water.
Check out this clip of the treatment of Roodeplaat dam in South Africa, with the BlueGreen Water Technologies team