Patent ID: 6764599
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: C02F,Y02W,Y10S

Abstract:
A process for modifying and controlling infectious agent levels that afflict animals, plants, and man in a body of water including the steps of:a) identifying an area of moving water within said body of water; b) choosing a bivalve mollusk species known to thrive in said body of water; c) providing at least one intercept array designed to receive and retain a plurality of bivalve mollusks, said at least one intercept array allowing water flow therethrough; d) inserting a plurality of bivalve mollusks into said at least one intercept array; e) placing said at least one intercept array within said body of water suspended above a bottom thereof; f) said at least one intercept array filtering infectious agents out of said body of water, thereby reducing infectious agent levels in said body of water; and g) burying and entombing infectious agents in the bottom of said body of water.