Blue Water Technologies, Inc., in partnership with Ilshin Environmental Engineering Co., has completed their first phosphorus removal installation in South Korea. The installation is located in Keumwang, South Korea and consists of three CF-128 below ground Centra-flo™ filters that use the patented process to achieve low level phosphorus removal.

Ilshin personnel sought a partnership with Blue Water in order to answer the phosphorus removal needs in South Korea’s Four Rivers Project. The Four Rivers Project is a massive improvement effort of South Korea’s four largest waterways, an effort to manage their water resources and improve environmental quality. The partnership, created in 2009, led to a rapid exchange of technical information and sites visits in both the U.S. and South Korea. This included Blue Water hosting a contingent of 33 representatives from the South Korean Ministry of the Environment, with technical presentations and installation tours.


Ilshin now has several projects being installed, with the first one complete at Keumwang. Personnel from Blue Water’s Operations Department arrived on site in South Korea in March, 2011 to help with the final stages of installation and startup of the system at the Keumwang WWTP. Upon startup, the single pass system is meeting the site’s phosphorus discharge limit of 0.2 mg/L.




Blue Water is pleased to share the success of this startup with their Korean partners at Ilshin Environmental Engineering, and looks forward to the startup of additional projects in 2011.