Could Mobile Ferrate Treatment be the Agricultural Pollution Clean-up Solution for Florida's Everglades?

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If you ask Ferrate Treatment Technologies Partner and Chief Technology Officer Thomas D. Waite, Ph.D., the answer would unequivocally be "Yes!" Ferrate is the most powerful, multi-purpose, and environmentally friendly water and wastewater treatment chemical known," said Waite. "Its use for pollution clean-up in the Everglades has long been considered viable, but without a way to produce the chemical locally and affordably, and without a way to deliver it effectively, it didn't do us much good. Thankfully, that's not the case anymore." Iron-VI Ferrate ((FeO_4)~(2-)) is a supercharged iron molecule that has proven throughout the years to be an extremely powerful and environmentally friendly treatment chemical for water and wastewater. Even though the chemical can deliver multiple treatments from a single application and does not create disinfection by-products, it has only recently been developed into a useable technology for large volumes of water due to its historically high cost of production. Ferrate has long been an attractive treatment chemical, especially for environmental applications like the Everglades clean-up, because it provides this non-byproduct, "green" solution, while removing problem contaminants such as phosphorus.