Tips for Water Management

How to Avoid the Hefty Price Tag of Being Reactive vs. Proactive. Ever estimated how much a reactive emergency response to a Legionella outbreak might cost you? Remediation efforts can be very expensive - upwards of $100,000 for a typical 125-bed long-term care facility - and the extended impacts such as 30-90 day water restrictions, litigation, loss of CMS star ratings and erosion of public trust can have disastrous affects beyond your bottom line.

Our team is committed to being the best long-term partner for our clients, and to protecting your building water systems. An important component of fulfilling that commitment is staying up-to-date on compliance requirements, regulation changes, best practices of the industry and new technologies.

As the year begins anew, we find ourselves reflecting on 2019 and looking ahead to 2020. We recently completed an intensive value proposition workshop. Our team took stock of how we can be the best partners for our clients. We conducted in-depth interviews with front-line managers at some of the region’s largest hospitals and health systems.

Last month we shared that we’re digging deep and doing some self-reflection to prepare our organization to be the best partner it can be for the facilities we serve. This month, we completed our second day-long workshop with Aileron, a Dayton-based non-profit that helps small businesses grow and connect with their customers. Our top management, leadership, front-line workers and vendor partners came together to roll up our sleeves and dig into what frustrates our customers and how we are able to help.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then feedback and innovation are the cool aunt and uncle polishing everything to perfection. Did you know the wheeled suitcase, as we know it today was born from the invention of Bernard D. Sadow?

It’s common for public water systems to add chlorine to the water supply. In the right amounts, it helps to kill microorganisms capable of causing life-threatening illnesses from water borne pathogens such as Legionella. But as a result, disinfection byproducts are created when chlorine reacts with organic material naturally occurring in water. As time passes and reactions occur, the volume of byproducts begins to build up.

Whether you are in the process of selecting chemicals for your cooling tower, commissioning piping for new construction or re-commissioning piping that hasn’t been used in a while, creating a water management solution that will reduce the risk of Legionella and other waterborne pathogens can be a daunting task. Finding the right partner, one who can help your team save both time and money, can seem like an even more intimidating goal.

You face a higher risk of a deadly Legionella outbreak at your facility when you might least expect it. Newly constructed facilities, facilities that have recently undergone repairs or renovations and facilities with dormant or inactive piping systems that don’t have processes that align with American Water Works Association (AWWA) piping disinfection guidelines are at higher risk of waterborne pathogens contaminating their facility’s water system. Below are five of the most common reasons why Legionella outbreaks occur

Take these steps to become more eco-friendly. Cooling Towers are an essential component of most facility’s HVAC system, and they can have a big impact on the environment. Let’s look at a few steps you can take to ensure your cooling system is running at an optimized level and limiting impacts to the environment (while also preserving your budget).