The Scavenger 2000, via Water Managment Technologies.
Streets and Sanitation has a new weapon to battle debris in the Chicago River: the Scavenger 2000. This new boat, costing $600,000, will patrol the Chicago River while scrubbing it clean. According to officials:
The boat can pick up 4,600 pounds of river garbage in an 8- to 10-hour day. The boat injects 150,000 liters of oxygen into the water every hour, decontaminating 20,000 gallons of water a minute, reducing or eliminating bacteria and viruses.
The new boat is pretty cool. You can download a PDF brochure from the manufacturer’s Web site that shows how the boat works. Previously, all debris was removed from the river by workers scooping up garbage in nets. [S-T]
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cool. i want to drive the river scrubbing, oxygen shooting, bacteria killing, river barge.
I want to know what it does with the body parts that it will occasionally come across.
Oh, I'm sure the oxygen will decontaminate those, too.
and how far up the north branch will this go?
or, is it just for downtown.....
Come on people smarten up. Chicago has these already. How much? Made in France? Look at the website -the numbers just don't make sense. Look at the oxy machine website -their machines can't even make that much O2. Um, oxygenating the water promotes bacteria growth -that's what eats the organics -nice wool pulling. This looks like a total BS job to me -but I'll bet someone made out.