Overview
Palm Garden Healthcare is a very large assisted living facility for senior citizens in the USA. They are committed to leading in the skilled nursing and rehabilitation arena.
Challenges
Most of the Palm Garden facilities were using water softeners on their hot water tanks, boilers, washers, dishwasher & ice machines. One of the main facility’s water softeners “froze” up in the middle of the night while regenerating and flooded the dietary & laundry zones with pure salt water. The damage to equipment was extensive. It was then, that they found out the softener company’s only responsibility was for the damage to the softener itself.
Solution
The answer was to install commercial ScaleBlaster units in the whole building to control all the water, without the softener & the dangers connected to them. Units were placed on the incoming waterline to the building, and in front of the dietary and laundry areas.
Installed
The 25 Palm Garden facilities had units installed from the years 2000 – 2009
Outcome
Since the initial installation, there was a 92% reduction in overnight leaks and no limescale buildup in the facility. Twenty-five Palm Garden’s in Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania are now equipped with ScaleBlaster. The $350 average per month, per facility, in salt & wasted water is no longer an expense, as well as the costly water softening equipment itself.
Founder and Co-Owner of Clearwater Enviro Technologies
Jeff Conway is the founder and co-owner of Clearwater Enviro Technologies, which opened in 1989 from the city it started from – Clearwater, Florida. The first product line was the Clearwater Pool Systems with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as it’s company spokesman. In 1995, the electronic water conditioner ScaleBlaster was added to the product line. Jeff was born in Auburn, Indiana but grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a graduate of Florida Southern College in 1978 and has resided in the Tampa Bay area ever since. Several products have evolved over the years, making the company the largest manufacturer of mineral ionization equipment and electronic water conditioners in the world.