OTTAWA, Jan. 29, 2016 /CNW/ - Clearford Water Systems
Inc. ("Clearford" or the "Company"), (TSXV: CLI), today announced
that the Clearford One™ installation to service Fetherston Mobile
Home Park in North Grenville Ontario is now operational. The system
is now collecting and treating sanitary sewage for 38 permanent
residences, with capacity to service 46. The potable water network
is also complete. Both the potable water and wastewater treatment
plants include ultra violet purification using the Hallet® system
designed and manufactured by UV Pure Technologies Inc. of
Toronto, a subsidiary of
Clearford. This is the first installation in Canada of Clearford One™, the latest
generation of the company's proprietary unified sanitation
system.
The $1 million system is designed,
funded, installed and operated by Clearford Water Utility
(Fetherston) Inc. under a 30 year Service Agreement with Fetherston
Mobile Home Park Association. The Association will pay a fixed
charge per month per residence, adjusted annually to reflect the
change in the Consumer Price Index. The Clearford
Pay-For-Performance (P4P™) delivery model is available to
Municipalities in Ontario and was
announced in January 2015.
The Clearford One™ system is based on distributed treatment at
the sewage source in ClearDigest™, collection of liquid outflow
from ClearDigest™ through a small bore flexible pipe network,
ClearConvey™, and final treatment in a Membrane BioReactor (MBR)
treatment plant, ClearRecover™.
For Fetherston, ClearRecover™ incorporates a packaged MBR
supplied to Clearford by Koester
Canada. The packaged MBR incorporates new Fibracast
FIBREPlate™ next generation membrane technology, as well as Hallet®
ultra violet purification supplied by UV Pure Technologies Inc.
Operation of the Fetherston system has been contracted by Clearford
to Koester–Team Aquatic (KTA), an established Ontario operator of wastewater treatment
plants. Clearford retains full responsibility for the system with
service functions performed by KTA.
"Clearford One™ provides this community with wastewater
management service that is affordable for residents while providing
environmental performance superior to conventional systems ", said
Kevin Loiselle, Clearford's
President and CEO. "We believe that Clearford One™ and the
Pay For Performance™ delivery model will allow many communities in
Ontario to meet wastewater
management needs without being burdened by debt and with full life
cycle service charges significantly lower than the cost of
conventional systems," Mr. Loiselle said.
In the summer of 2013 the Municipality of North Grenville issued a notice to the
residents that it would close the park and evict residents due to
public health concerns related to the failed wastewater system.
Clearford has provided a unique solution which has allowed the
residents of Fetherston to revitalize the Park and maintain their
homes.
Clearford will be hosting a commissioning event at Fetherston on
February 19, with a Grand Opening to
follow in the summer of 2016.
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About Clearford Water Systems Inc.
Clearford Water
Systems Inc. (TSX-V: CLI) is a provider of unified water management
and sanitation systems based on Clearford One™. Clearford One™ is a
proprietary system comprised of ClearDigest™ smart digester,
ClearConvey™ small bore sewer, and ClearRecover™ final treatment
facility. For more information on Clearford Water Systems, please
visit www.clearford.com.
About UV Pure Technologies Inc.
UV Pure Technologies manufactures technically advanced UV water
purification systems. The Company has won an Artemis Top 50 Clean
Tech Company award, two Frost and Sullivan Best Practices awards, a
Canadian Drinking Water Association award for innovation, and is a
Going Green Global Top 200 company.
There are currently over 15,000 UV Pure systems in residential,
commercial, industrial, public and municipal applications, with
flow rates up to 1 million gallons per day. An aerospace version of
UV Pure's system is being used by Boeing to purify water on its new
787 Dreamliner.
UV Pure's patented Crossfire Technology® is dramatically
advantaged compared to conventional UV systems. Lamps are mounted
in air surrounded by elliptical reflectors providing more effective
deactivation of pathogens, facilitating easy lamp changes and
visual quartz inspection. They are self-cleaning, smart – with
multiple sensors and on-board diagnostics guiding maintenance,
engineered to be fail-safe, virtually maintenance free, and are
plug-in ready for remote monitoring. For more information on UV
Pure Technologies, please visit www.uvpure.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements as
they relate to the Company and its management.
Forward-looking statements are not historical facts but represent
management's current expectation of future events, and can be
identified by words such as "believe", "expects", "will",
"intends", "plans", "projects", "anticipates", "estimates",
"continues" and similar expressions. Although management
believes that the expectations represented in such forward-looking
statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that they will
prove to be correct.
By their nature, forward-looking statements include assumptions
and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual future results, conditions, actions or events to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements. If and when forward-looking statements are set
out in this news release, Clearford will also set out the material
risk factors or assumptions used to develop the forward-looking
statements. Except as expressly required by applicable securities
law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any
forward looking statements. The future outcomes that relate to
forward-looking statements may be influenced by many factors,
including, but not limited to: industry cyclicality; the ability to
secure third party agreements; successful integration of
Clearford's system with third party technology; competition;
reduction in demand for products; collection from customers;
relationships with suppliers; product liability; intellectual
property; reliance on key personnel; environmental; interest rates;
uninsured and underinsured losses; operating hazards; risks of
future legal proceedings; income tax matters; credit facilities;
availability and terms of financing; distribution of securities;
restrictions on potential growth; effect of market interest rates
on price of securities; and potential dilution.
SOURCE Clearford Water Systems Inc.