Using Wind Power to Help Ponds
June 2007 - Family Living Magazine
Protecting Hostas
Using Wind Power to Help Ponds
A Canadian company is putting a valuable rural machine, the on-farm windmill, to a new use. Its selling a system that uses wind power to help land owners keep their ponds clean and healthy.
Superior Windmill Inc of Regina, Saskatchewan has developed a low cost pond aeration system powered by the wind. The company's system is a direct drive design that uses the wind driven turbine to power a diaphragm assembly. Air flow is produced by using a molded rubber diaphragm which compresses air and sends it through a hose into the pond providing aeration.
The aeration helps clean the pond's water, reduces the build up of algae and weeds, and promotes the health of fish, birds and other wildlife. Superior says, aeration also helps to inhibit the growth of mosquito larvae on the pond's surface.
Superior says that the wind driven aeration systems have been installed on livestock farms, acreage, golf courses, and campgrounds. The Superior systems can also be used to pump water for livestock or other uses.
