Phosphorus
Phosphorus becomes present in the environment from rocks, fossilized bones from many years ago, or bird droppings. Phosphate ions, which are soluble in water, come from weathered rocks as well as erosions. When wastes and plant materials decay, phosphate is released and is returned to the environment for reuse, thus the cycle.
Phosphate is a needed nutrient or fertilizer by land plants. It is also taken up by cyano bacteria in open waters or algae or even weeds. However, excessive amounts of phosphate can produce and promote a surplus of fast-growing algae.
Water can be plagued by copious amounts of phosphorus through human influences with the introduction of commercial synthetic fertilizers. Plants may not be able to make use of all the present phosphate fertilizers applied thereby losing it from the land during run-offs. These phosphates are heavy and settle at the bottom of the water.
Phosphorus coming in from sewage treatment plants needs expensive tertiary treatment in order to remove all the phosphorus, if not, most of the phosphorus stay and accumulate the tank, and again, more phosphorus in the water. Anaerobic time alone will not cause the phosphorus to settle out and because it is locked up in the BOD.
In a tank, when BOD and COD and the proteins are in the process of being broken down, phosphorus will also be present. These will settle because they are heavy, but for most sewage treatment plants they don’t because of too much turbulence.
While for BioCleaner, it breaks down BOD and the unit provides gentle mixing, allowing phosphorus to settle. Phosphorus is also sequestered by our PAO (phosphorus absorbing organisms).

After 5 to 10 years, we can recover the Phosphorus by sucking up part of the Biobed and treating further or drying it up.
What we can do
BAJA SUSTAINABLE WATER can easily treat foul odors. Our revolutionary system, patented US technology, can treat all types of wastewater in sewage treatment plants (STP) or wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) by producing good microbes, which digest wastewater. Our system can clean sewage and wastewater from high Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and high Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) to non-detect.
The microbes used by our units are stored in ceramic pellets in an immobilized state. Our bacteria has been approved as safe and effective by the United States Environment Protection Agency and the Philippine Department of Science and Technology. It is all-natural with no chemicals and artificial products mixed in, thus, eliminating the chance for having harmful effects to the environment.
The microbes become active and start multiplying once they come into contact with the oxygen and wastewater. The microbes digest the waste and turn it into carbon dioxide and water. This is a very clean and green technology. Aerobic microbes are being used, so that means no methane is produced. They can eliminate odor by breaking down the bond between hydrogen sulfides, which causes the foul smell. Microbes are also facultative, meaning they can be aerobic or anaerobic.
