Sonoma Vermiculture food waste recycling article

Sonoma Vermiculture is a client of ours of whom we consult to help them with their water reuse program. This article explains what they are doing to pave the way to a new form or recycling and helping the environment by working towards a more sustainable future.

http://petaluma.patch.com/articles/worms-the-way-to-a-zero-waste-future

West Nile Virus found in Petaluma article in Press Democrat

We found this article via the Press Democrat in Rohnert Park and thought it needed to be shared. An adult mosquito was tested positive in Petaluma CA for West Nile Virus. Make sure to eliminate any standing water by dumping over buckets and barrels and either pump water out of ponds or keep the water flowing.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111026/ARTICLES/111029645/1350?Title=Mosquito-with-West-Nile-virus-found-in-Petaluma

Cleaning Gutters and Ditches

This year be prepared for the rainy season by cleaning out your gutters and ditches. When cleaning your gutters, make sure if you have a bypass for rainwater to go when not collected, that you direct all the excess from cleaning the gutters down that bypass instead of into your rainwater collection tank. While you are up there, inspect your gutters for clogs in the drain area, cracks in the gutter and fix any leaf guards that might have been damaged over the season. This will ensure that you have easy flow of rainwater and less contaminants going to your rainwater tank.

Cleaning ditches can be very dirty work, but its necessary to prevent mosquitoes and yellow jackets from flourishing in stagnant water, overflow from slow flow rate, and erosion from blockage of water.

Simple measures can be taken in order to have an easy clean flowing winter.

Changing filters

One of the most important things a person can do to stay healthy is to change their water filters on a regular basis, its surprising how often people forget to do this simple task.

Filters build up microbes and bacteria over long periods of time and can clog up systems to shorten the life span of the total system and if you don't change those filters, its sometimes worse than having no filter at all. Simply writing the date on your filter and changing it on time will help save the life of the filter, your water system and you.