The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will be awarding Creative Water Solutions for its work with the city of St. Paul and their public pools. With the help of Creative Water Solutions and its Sphagnum moss products, the city of St. Paul dramatically reduced chemical usage at all of their municipal pools. Creative Water Solutions’ Sphagnum moss product has been solely responsible for saving St. Paul over $70,000 by reducing both chemical usage and maintenance/labor hours.
The award will be given at the Minnesota State Fair on August 31, 2011 in the EcoExperience Building.
If you would like to learn more about Creative Water Solutions work with The City of St. Paul and the award, click on the video link.
Public Pools Green Iniative by TheMnPCA
Creative Water Solutions President and co-founder David Knighton, MD has been recognized by Aquatics International magazine as one of their Power 25 Reinventors. Successful testing of sphagnum moss-based PoolNaturally Plus at Highland Park Aquatic Center in St. Paul, MN, during the summer of 2009 marked CWS’ entrance into the commercial side of the aquatics industry.
Great New York Times Article:
As its license plates proclaim, Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Now a Minneapolis-area company says it has figured out the secret to the state’s famously crystalline watering holes: moss.
Specifically, species of Sphagnum moss that the start-up, Creative Water Solutions, envisions will keep tens of thousands of swimming pools clean while drastically reducing the use of chlorine and other harsh chemicals.
SAINT PAUL — Mayor Chris Coleman, Creative Water Solutions, LLC President and CEO David Knighton, MD, and Parks and Recreation Director Mike Hahm will unveil preliminary results of the nation’s first public-pool sphagnum moss-based water treatment system installation at 11a on August 17 at Highland Park Aquatic Center (see link for more about this pool). The pilot project was undertaken with the innovative Minnesota-based company, which has already demonstrated the moss-based system’s effectiveness in residential pools and spas (PoolNaturally and SpaNaturally, respectively).
“It’s a completely different pool! My eyes and the kids’ eyes didn’t get red, the water didn’t smell of chlorine and it was a lot softer feeling in general,” said 19-year-old Mary Schmidt, a regular weekly visitor to the pool as a summer nanny. “I love it!”
To see the full media release, please visit this link.