14 years in the field · Queensland-based · sites nationwide
Your pond is a living system.
Treat it like one.
Bacterial treatment and aeration that fixes odour, foaming and compliance failures in industrial wastewater ponds — without a capital works project. Direct advice from the person who’ll actually be on site.
“We work with what you’ve already built. Most treatment problems are biological imbalance, not infrastructure failure — and biological problems have biological fixes.”
— Brendon Clive
COD reduction
↓ 30–60
%
BOD reduction
↓ 40–70
%
Sludge volume
↓ 20–50
%
Odour complaints
↓ to zero
typical
Who we work with
Eight industries.
One recurring problem.
Different feedstock, same biology. If your wastewater is high in organic load, your ponds are doing the same job as everyone else’s — just with different inputs.
What’s actually going wrong
Three symptoms, almost always the same root cause
Symptom 01
Odour complaints
Anaerobic conditions or dying bacteria releasing H₂S and volatile organics — often the first thing a neighbour or council notices, long before it shows up in a compliance test.
Symptom 02
Foaming & filamentous bulking
Bacterial population out of balance — filamentous organisms outcompeting the floc-forming bacteria you actually want, causing foam, poor settling and effluent quality drops.
Symptom 03
High COD / BOD & rising sludge
Insufficient or inactive biomass to break down incoming organic load — so it accumulates as sludge, and your numbers drift toward licence breach.
How it works
From assessment to result, in four steps
01
Talk it through
Call or send through your numbers — flow rates, current COD/BOD, what’s failing. No site visit needed to start the conversation.
02
On-site assessment
Brendon assesses the pond in person, checks dissolved oxygen, sludge depth and biological balance, and identifies the actual cause — not just the symptom.
03
Tailored treatment
A specific bacteria strain and/or aeration plan for your waste stream and your infrastructure — built to work with what you’ve already got.
04
Monitor & adjust
Ongoing checks against your compliance metrics, with dosing and aeration adjusted as conditions and loads change through the year.
The alternative is expensive
Bio-augmentation vs. capital works
Most treatment problems get “solved” by spending on infrastructure that was never the actual fault. Here’s the comparison worth having before that conversation.
| Capital works / plant upgrade | Bio-augmentation & aeration | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | $100K–$1M+ | Thousands–tens of thousands |
| Time to result | 6–18 months (design, approval, construction) | Weeks |
| Disruption to plant | Civil works on site, potential downtime | None — treatment continues operating |
| Reversible if wrong | No — sunk capital | Yes — adjust dose, strain or aeration |
| Addresses root cause | Only if cause was capacity, not biology | Yes, when imbalance is the driver |
This isn’t always the right call — sometimes infrastructure genuinely is undersized. Part of the assessment is telling you honestly which problem you’ve actually got.
Brendon Clive · Cert IV Water Industry Operations · 14 years
About Brendon
Plant-floor experience,
not a sales script
Brendon has spent 14 years solving wastewater problems for agricultural, industrial, municipal and forestry operators — working directly with site teams and alongside consultants like HydroTech to deliver practical fixes, not unnecessary capital spend.
He holds a Certificate IV in Water Industry Operations and has worked across dairy, egg processing, chipboard, mining, wineries, abattoirs, councils and sludge-reduction projects.
Got a pond that’s out of balance?
Tell Brendon what’s happening — odour, foam, a failed test result — and get a straight answer on what it’ll take to fix it.