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Dry water-soluble pouch

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The same organism families targeted at the water column rather than at the blanket. Cheapest to ship and to stock, and the right choice for holding a position in a well-mixed system rather than for knocking down an established blanket.

01Why this format

Maintenance dosing and general organic load

Maintenance and knockdown are different jobs and the category routinely sells one as the other. A soluble pouch disperses through the water column, which is what you want for general organic load and what you do not want for material sitting several feet below it.

It works in the water column, and it suits an adequately mixed lagoon.

Two sealed transparent packets of dry, brown granular treatment material on a plain background.

02Specifications

What is confirmed, and what is not.

Every figure below comes from a manufacturer document or it is marked as outstanding. Nothing here is estimated to fill a gap — a placeholder specification that later moves is worse than an admitted blank, because a buyer may have planned around it.

Pack weight
25 lb
Pack price
$516Indicative. A distributor list price, not a manufacturer specification — landed cost and freight are not yet confirmed, so the figure you are quoted may differ.
Dose rate
Sized to your lagoon from the manufacturer's dosing method (rev. 2026-07-16): an ongoing maintenance dose applied to the average flow across the programme, scaled to influent strength. The dosing planner returns the quantity and an indicative cost for your system.Concentration-based and system-specific rather than a fixed per-pail rate; sized to whole pails by the planner and confirmed in the reviewed quote.
Storage
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
Safety Data Sheet
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer SDS in OSHA HazCom / GHS format
Technical Data Sheet
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
Product label
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Label artwork and legal review

03When not to buy this

Three situations where this product is the wrong answer.

  • There is an established sludge blanket to reduce. That is what the sinking solid is for, and a pouch dosed at the surface is the wrong tool for it.
  • The lagoon is poorly mixed, since dispersal through the water column is the entire mechanism and poor mixing removes it.
  • An ammonia or nitrogen permit is the actual problem. Nitrifying bacteria do not survive drying, so no dry product can address nitrification.

The dosing planner screens for all three and will say so rather than routing you to a quotation.

04Microbiology

What the organisms actually do to the material.

The mechanism is enzymatic hydrolysis. Bacillus species secrete enzymes into their surroundings that break large organic molecules into fragments small enough to be taken up and metabolised. The organisms are not consuming sludge directly; they are releasing the tools that take it apart.

Enzyme classes produced by Bacillus and the material each acts on
EnzymeActs onWhat that is, in a lagoon
ProteaseProteins and peptidesThe protein fraction of settled influent solids and of dead biomass.
LipaseFats, oils and greasesFOG, which floats and consolidates rather than settling out on its own.
AmylaseStarches and complex carbohydratesCarbohydrate load, typically heaviest on food-processing influent.
CellulaseCellulosePlant fibre and paper, which is a large share of a municipal blanket.
Light micrograph of stained Bacillus: dark blue rod-shaped bacterial cells and short chains against a pale background.
Bacillus · stained light micrograph

Why Bacillus, and why a dry format costs nothing

Bacillus is the single most important bacterial source of exactly these enzymes, proteases in particular. It also forms endospores — a dormant state that survives drying, heat and time essentially intact, then germinates on contact with water and food. For this job the organisms that do the work are precisely the ones that dry best, which is why the two lead formats are dry and why that costs nothing biologically. Nitrifying organisms are the opposite case: they do not survive drying at all, which is why no dry product can address an ammonia permit.

What the published work supports

Mixtures of protease, cellulase and lipase reduce total suspended solids by 30 to 50 per cent and improve settling, with protease and cellulase together outperforming either alone. One controlled study reported 33 per cent volatile suspended solids reduction.

Peer-reviewedControlled studyEnzyme mechanism. Field efficacy figures in this category are vendor-published, including ours.

These figures are the mechanism, not a claim about this product: the peer-reviewed enzyme and hydrolysis work they rest on is collected in the scientific literature.

05Microbiological specification

The figures, and what each one is measured against.

None of these is confirmed yet, and each says what has to arrive before it can be published. A specification with its basis named and its value outstanding is more use to an operator than a number with neither.

Viable count at manufacture
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer certificate of analysis and technical data sheet
Guaranteed count at end of shelf life
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer guarantee in writing. Ask for this explicitly — most will quote only the count at manufacture
Strains in the blend
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
Operating temperature range
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
Operating pH range
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
Biosafety level
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Written confirmation that every organism in the blend is Biosafety Level 1
Shelf life
Not yet confirmedAwaiting: Manufacturer technical data sheet
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