ABOUT
The Agricultural Division of Final Barrier was created with the principal goal of providing a means for agricultural-based businesses to secure water treatment solutions, and related equipment, in the same manner, that Municipal and Rural Water systems do. That is, by employing the same engineering standards that are required in the design of all such public water systems, for agriculturally based enterprises.
Is this unique?
As this division is approaching 300 installations within the agribusiness industry, of all pre-existing water treatment plants reviewed to date, the number that was in compliance with the engineering standards referred to above, equals ZERO.
Is there a benefit?
At Final Barrier, we don't just design, build and operate water treatment systems, we believe it is our responsibility to protect your livestock asset. With a focus on efficiently, reliably, innovation and understanding our client's needs, we will provide site-specific solutions for your water challenges and help you to anticipate and design for those you may encounter.
PROVEN RESULTS
As more than two decades of peer-reviewed research will confirm, water held within groundwater aquifers can no be longer considered absent of microbial contaminants, including bacteria, virus, and protozoan cysts/(oo)cysts. Water treatment plants provided by Final Barrier are designed to destroy such microbes and remove other problematic contaminants such as iron, hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg odor), sulfates, and chlorides. In addition, measures are employed to protect against the growth of biofilm(s), commonly related to the spread of infectious disease, within the treated water distribution systems and drinking water receptacles.
As a result, water quality, along with waterborne diseases, can be eliminated as a variable that can negatively affect stock performance and food safety. Improvements such as lower mortality rates, higher feed conversion rates, increased milk production, and lower operating costs have been noted by Final Barrier clients.
ON-SITE MECHANICAL REVIEW
Successful solutions are always the result of securing an accurate description of the farm owner's goals and the information needed to satisfy them.
•Description of treatment objectives
•On-site mechanical review
•Water analysis (In-field and lab)
AFFORDABLE SOLUTIONS
Cost cannot be fixed to a prepackaged water treatment design. Rather, the actual cost of viable water treatment solutions ultimately depends upon design variables specific to each site. The levels of water quality each client desires to achieve and weighed with what each client is able and can justify investing.
Philip Olsen
Mr. Olsen has had a long and distinguished career in the water treatment industry. Today, he is widely recognized as a leading water technology consultant, lecturer, and author.
He has served as the principal investigator for numerous technical studies, technology/product development initiatives, and performance verification studies for both private and public (regulatory) sectors. He has authored 40+ technical papers and co-authored several book chapters that have served to advance the industry's knowledge of fluid separation, filtration, disinfection, and chemical adsorption processes.
He also serves as an expert advisor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and is the recipient of the Award of Merit from both the Minnesota and International Water Quality Associations for his leadership, and contributions toward the advancement of the water quality improvement industry.
During the early-1980's, while engaged in consulting projects on the US eastern seaboard, he realized the animal production industry was void of a viable delivery channel for water treatment technologies. Nearly 25 years later, he discovered such delivery channels, attempting to service the agricultural industry, could best be characterized as a fragmented and disjointed work in process. In many cases, marketing products in the absence of either (or both) scientific basis or adherence to accepted engineering standards. In 2010 he founded Final Barrier, Agricultural Division (FBA) to provide the agricultural industry the means to secure the most reliable and cost effective solution(s) across the broad spectrum of water quality issues found within the agricultural industry, including those related to the spread of infectious disease and general biosecurity.
Today, Final Barrier includes business associates, representatives and a s throughout the US that are engaged in the animal production/husbandry industry. They are relied upon to secure on-site water samples and facility/mechanical data as required to render the engineering design of a water treatment plant which dovetail's within each facility's mechanical design, available space, and satisfies their water quality objectives. Once water samples and engineering data are received and the diagnostics phase is completed, technologies are prescribed and the mechanical design and specification of the water treatment plant are documented and forwarded with a quotation to the Final Barrier associate/representative and the facility owner/manager.