Yearly Archive: 2017
Water treatment system solves salt problems in Lockyer Valley
Posted on March 30, 2017 in Case StudiesOver the past 70 years Robert Hogan’s family farm at Helidon in the Queensland Lockyer Valley has used salty bore water to grow crops. With ideal soils and climate for their cropping and livestock enterprise, they had some problems in the past but not serious enough to be too concerned. After floods in 2011 filled…
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DELTA hits the fields days circuit – SE Field Days @ Lucindale
Posted on March 6, 2017 in Case Studies, GeneralDELTAwater solutions is a regular fixture at several premier field days events across Australia and will hit the road shortly for the South East Field Days at Lucindale on March 17 and 18. DELTA’s founding director Alex Panov will be at Site 267 to answer questions from growers keen to boost system efficiency, lower water…
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Fruit and vegetable grower says DELTA technology is ‘brilliant’
Posted on March 6, 2017 in Case Studies, GeneralOn our business travels we’ve met some real characters. One of these is Allen Espinos in Geraldton, WA. Allen, a fruit and vegetable grower for market stalls, was about to turn his back on growing crops because his harsh bore water was killing them. Then he met DELTA. This is his story: The only difference between…
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Iron build-up problem solved
Posted on February 16, 2017 in Case StudiesSouth Australian farm manager Darren Jenke reckons the proof is in the pigs. Since installing the DELTA water treatment technology on the Lucindale district farm’s southern irrigation system in late 2010, he’s seen a dramatic reduction in iron build-up in the main-line pipe. The cleaning pig, a foam cylinder that cleans under pressure along pipes, has had…
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DELTA water treatment makes lime family business grow
Posted on January 31, 2017 in Case StudiesLime tree orchardist Phil Oliver has just had his most financially successful year at his northern Queensland farm despite four consecutive dry years and only having access to the poorest quality bore water he’s ever seen. He puts it down to the bore water treatment system of Australian company DELTAwater solutions which he installed in…
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