Jack Mosel (moseljack)

I am a NYS Certified 7-12 Secondary Earth Science teacher. I am currently employed at Mahopac High School, Mahopac, NY. I own a business named Aquatic Restorations, LLC. I employ the use of proprietary means to mimic nature in the restoration of water bodies. I have been restoring water bodies and studying the restoring of water bodies, as well as advocating for water body restoration through these means for over the past 18 Years.

I am an authorized representative in NYS for Clean-Flo International (www.clean-flo.com). I have been involved with, initiated and facilitated  water body restoration projects with success in NYS, which have resulted in the installation of our all natural water body restoration systems/process in Greenwood Lake, NY and in Tarrytown Lake Reservoirs (to note some large scale municipal projects). I have many private clients as well. Clean-Flo International has been a pioneer in water body restoration for over the past 40 years. They have been providing solutions for water body restoration two years prior to the formation of The U.S. EPA. I have had the privilege to have been under the tutelage of Mr. Robert Laing, Clean-Flo's founder for the past 18 of those years. I have personally installed Clean-Flo systems and worked with Mr. laing on two projects located in New York State which Included an in-situ pilot project for the City of NY DEC on the Newtown Creek, Queens, NYC a tributary off the East River of Manhattan, and the installation of a Clean-Flo System in the  Middletown Reservoir, Orange County, NY. These projects took place in the early 1990’s. Data is available from the Clean-Flo International website archive located at www.clean-flo.com .

Clean-Flo has a host of international business clients from France, Taiwan, Korea, Philippines, Puerto Rico and China as well as some impressive domestic public and private clientele here in the U.S. as of late we have been working in installing our all natural process and systems which deliver this process for the restoration of drinking water reservoirs in Texas, Puerto Rico and soon in Colorado.

My personal history:

I became interested in the restoration of eutrophic water bodies 20 years ago, in the early 90’s. I was a compressed air system’s sales engineer with a top industrial manufacturer of industrial air compressors as a regional sales manager for the North Shore of Massachusetts. It was during this time that the U.S. EPA had enacted the Clean Water Act. The industrial manufacturing practice and management for dealing with compressor condensate until this time, was to blow oily water onto the ground or into apparatus that would ultimately deliver this emulsified oily water to outside of the manufacturing facility and from there, it would be either directed to open gravity sewerage or rudimentarily blown out unto the ground. I was tasked with a special directive to investigate alternative means to deal with this oily emulsified and toxic waste from compressed air processes and I needed to find solutions to comply with environmental directives which could accommodate the newly enacted rule of federal environmental law.

As I began this special task, I became aware of the gross neglect and abusive practices that were all too common found within industrial manufacturing processes that carelessly and without any regard for the environment, discharged toxins into the environment. I didn’t have far to look to find how much damage had occurred to wetlands and water bodies which were devastated as a direct result. I determined that reverse osmosis devices and oil skimming wheels were the best approach to deal with the compressor condensate. The firm I worked for engineered and designed skid mounted high volume portable units to rent and to sell to large industrial manufacturing corporations as well the U.S. Navy to be used in the Groton, Ct. Submarine base facility and also in the State of Maine at Naval Ship yards.

The research I had done into merely a tertiary investigation of the environmental damages done from commercial effects left me feeling as if I needed to find a solution to restore the water bodies I had discovered that were destroyed or severely damaged by these processes. I educated myself as to the greater state of degradation that was to become imminently clear to me, that mostly all water bodies were affected to greater or lesser extents from not only commercial variables but from residential and municipal contributors as well. I learned that water bodies and wetlands were being massively loaded with nutrients that were throwing a natural balance for dealing with nutrient loading held with water bodies out of balance. The result was that organic muck accumulation and algal blooms as well as invasive weed growth were pervasive, persistent and worsening in almost every water body I looked at. In what would be an assumed pristine environment in Northern New England, these conditions were almost as commonly seen within water bodies I saw in Mass. And in New York state.

A neighbor of mine in NH had business dealings as a global sales distributor for a non-toxic swimming pool product called Clear-Pool. When I was speaking of the devastation I was encountering in water bodies, he directed me to the man who invented this swimming pool product he was distributing. My neighbor told me that the man who invented this product really had a greater involvement in restoring water bodies including River’s and Oceanic Bays and reservoir’s throughout the world through all natural means and in remarkable ways, with great success. I was introduced to Mr. Robert Laing, the Founder of Clean-Flo Labs from Hopkins, MN as a result. Mr. Laing, my neighbor and I subsequently became engaged in carrying this alternative and effective method for water body restoration to state and municipal authorities in New Hampshire, mass. and in New York state.

The presentations and information we were disclosing to the official personnel we approached had been interpreted as being very different and far removed from what was best practices management for responding to the issues and causes for eutrophication. We had a natural approach and a working solution for whole water body restoration and it was very difficult to change the minds and thinking of an environmental industry that had embraced mitigational treatment of the symptoms for a dying water body, rather than implementing a solution for a reversal of the trophic condition itself. To stray from this assumption or position as a personal statement and to suggest that industries making huge profits from treating the symptoms rather than the cause with regard to “best practices management” for dealing with cultural eutrophication, would encourage a political argument that I’ve been maintaining for almost two decades now.

I remain committed to this statement and I believe that times are changing in favor for supporting this belief. It is because all purely mitigational applications have been tried and remain consistently unsuccessful in water body restoration, that this statement and belief is vetted today. It is however a shame that the cost for waiting for a best practices management paradigm change has pushed some water bodies to the point of no return as a direct cost from waiting.

In 2006 after moving back to New York state, I reinvigorated my commitment to myself and to the effort to restore water bodies through becoming a regional distributor for Clean-Flo International in New York State and New England. From the massive educational effort I undertook in becoming astute with the science of ecology and of the geo-mechanical and chemical processes of the Earth, I became a certified NYS Educator in Earth Science. I feel as though I have a responsibility to offer this life experience to our next generation. I bring this experience to my classroom and I bring my classroom to the work in progress I perform in the field in and among our local communities and including our next generation in a very real and practical as well as meaningful way.

I allied and partnered with a highly unique and intelligent business man who was just starting up as a Clean-Flo representative in Michigan. Mr. John Tucci, President of Lake-Savers. John and I are uniquely suited to complement each other in very effective ways, to collaboratively accomplish larger scale water body restoration projects and to advocate effectively through community presentations, our methods and practices to offer turn-key solutions for whole water body restoration. As such, we offer a goal oriented, cost effective management practice and business practice that is second to none in terms of overall services provided to actually achieve water body restoration through all natural means, by way of all natural / goal oriented trophic index reversal.

Bio-Mimicry and Bio-Augmentation are the practices by which we address nutrient loading issues found accumulated from within as well as from the outside of the water body. Our comprehensive business model addresses the needs of our clients individually with customized solutions for achieving goal oriented results. Our business model offers affordable financing and turn-key installations as well as single source responsibility and accountability for the timely maintenance, repair and water quality testing among all of our restoration projects. I believe our approach and dedication will be easily observed from early on in a project. We are as committed to each project as our clients are.

Timing is everything:

Water resources are rapidly becoming a major focal point for national and global concern. The abundance and the quality of available fresh surface water is rapidly becoming a subject matter that is warranting immediate investigation and the allocation of financial resources to assure protection of what we are finally coming to realize is a highly precious asset.

Gone are the days for mitigational best practices management for water body restoration. I believe we have the only viable, time tested, vetted and prudent management design-practice to effectively accomplish trophic index reversal to safe guard the invaluable precious asset we are coming to realize is in our Lakes, Ponds, Rivers, Streams, Wetlands  Gulf and Coastal Estuaries. As a secondary benefit in these times of heightened security measures in an unstable geo-political world, water bodies that have our systems installed such as drinking reservoirs cannot sustain pathogenic or deadly bacteria for more than 24 hours. Pathogenic bacteria cannot survive in a highly oxygenated environment such that we provide. Every drinking water reservoir should have an engineered Clean-Flo system installed within it.

The Process:
 
The Clean-Flo process mimics nature in a water body through multiple laminar flow, continuous oxygenation. Biological additives are re-introduced through our process and a reversal of trophic index in a hyper-eutrophic or eutrophic water body is the result. We have data from objective third party environmental engineers which show upwards of a 97% removal of Phosphorus from our process.

The effective restoration of a highly stressed water body with trophic indexes classifying themselves as being eutrophic or hyper-eutrophic are the result of many variables from within the watershed of a water body. One such variable is found within the water body itself. This is the constituent of Phosphorus as a result of bio-mass accumulation in an anoxic environment. Internal Loading therefore, is a TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) variable that is more likely overlooked or even not taken into consideration when best management practices for water restoration is considered. The accumulation of Phosphorus collected within a lake or pond from its' watershed, is accumulated within the benthic region, and organic detritus accumulation in this region will guarantee a future for the lake or pond in vegetative productivity.

Evidenced in abundant vegetative growth are algae pervasiveness, foul odors and pathogenic bacteria colonies. A water bodies' precious dissolved oxygen supply from natural processes such as seasonal inversion and plant respiration, will become exhausted in this environment resulting in the natural selection for pathogenic bacteria to become dominant and non-pathogenic bacteria (aerobic bacteria) to be starved out.

Argument: It is "unnatural" for man to reverse a water bodies' trophic index through the physiology and biological manipulation of that water body to become engineered to perform as if it were oligotrophic or pristine...

--Eutrophication is indeed a natural process.

Question: To what end did humankind have a role in accelerating this natural process? Runoff, Nitrification of the Earth's atmosphere (acid rain), over development of watershed, impacted wetlands, farm runoff and failing septic tanks all have contributed to a world-wide and devastating effect to all of humankind's freshwater supply...

My ethics and our professional environmental stewardship accept this conundrum and the outcome is and always will be.. that we all created this problem and in seeking out corrective measures to counter our effects on water bodies (which affects not only human's but countless animals), that the best solution would be to mimic Mother Nature herself as the answer to the problem of the world's dying fresh water supply...

It is with this process and technology through the application of the Clean-Flo International Multiple Inversion, Continuous laminar flow oxygenation process along with biological additives and our mandate for systems to be uniquely engineered, professionally maintained and operational 24/7/365, that we can say (proudly) that we can reverse the trophic index, I.E. restore a body of water to an oligotrophic (pristine) state, naturally...

Depth increase of up to one foot per year is evidenced from the bio-remediation from aerobic colony metabolism (which when seeded and increased as additives over time, these colonies exponentially increase), elimination of pathogenic bacteria (highly oxygenated environs at the benthic do not permit anaerobic bacteria to thrive), return of littoral shelf to vegetative selection and indigenous speciation to scale (such that replicate oligotrophic water bodies), ex: Aquatic Eurasian Milfoil eradicated, increase in water clarity, improved fish health and abundance, water taste and vitality restored. Phosphorus is removed through aerobic bacteria ingesting organic detritus in the benthic.

Secondary restoration: Through the return and the sustained balance of the web of life returning to the water body, nesting birds, birds of prey and varied fauna return to the healthy water body from instinct and abundance from the single bacteria grazers up through vertebrates then out of the water to the fox and eagle's found indigenously here in NYS. All from providing an environment at the benthic region of a water body that supports animal life over plant life. The food chain is thereby re-initiated and enhanced from the bottom up.

This process is entirely scalar and can be engineered to accommodate these results in a 1/2 acre pond up through a 15 mile river (see Clean-Flo website for Formies France, Le Helpe River restoration), an oceanic bay (see Clean-Flo website for work performed in S. Korea), or a 500 acre freshwater lake or a 3800 acre drinking reservoir in Texas.

As recent times harbor environmental catastrophe through the Gulf of Mexico, the Washington State area, the Chesapeake area and the southern most waters off the coast of Florida (evidenced in Black band Disease in Coral), the process by which inland river's feed nutrient's to estuaries and gulf water's bear's the investigation as to whether reduction in fertilizers and the release of agricultural waste's or best management practices implemented in the current paradigm for water management are being very effective (if at all). Being the point source for much of these greater open water conditions evidenced in hypoxia and anoxia Harmful Algal Blooms (Red Tide, Brown Tide and Blue Green Algal Blooms) seen as far off shore as being 'at sea' can also be tied back to their origin's as being produced by inland freshwater point sources from localized runoff and other inland urban, sub-urban and rural contributions. 

Best management practices (of common sense), should dictate the promoted engineering and implementation of system's designed to reverse the trophic index, to eliminate the problem's associated from eutrophication would be the most advantageous dictates. Presently, I have not seen this management practice offered in-situ or otherwise, accept for those municipalities and private client's from which myself and my colleagues at Clean-Flo International present when we are asked to disclose our process and engineered solutions.

Anthropomorphic Eutrophication is the root causality for the acceleration of a natural process, through which water bodies turn into a bog and then a field. This is the process that is occurring throughout the world at present as a causally related and direct effect of human activity (and carelessness).

I seek to find other scientists and professionals as well as like-minded other's to confer with, educate and to cooperate and collaborate with in changing the paradigm of best management practices in water body restoration and look forward to working with and hearing from those sharing these same interests. 

Best regards

Jack Mosel, Owner
Aquatic Restorations,LLC.
(914) 260-5678