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Hi All, 

Just a note amongst the recovery efforts and news surrounding Hurricane Sandy that all of us at + POOL hope that you and your loved ones are all dry and safe.  Things are still pretty weird here in blacked-out Lower Manhattan, but it's nothing compared to how places like Staten Island, Breezy Point other neighborhoods across NY and NJ were hit.  The resilience, camaraderie and patience city-wide has been incredible, and we hope everything can get cleaned-up, rebuilt, and turned back on soon.

If you would like to and are able to help in any way please volunteer or donate:

General
https://www.nyc.gov/html/fund/html/donate/donate.shtml
https://donate.unitedwaynyc.org/page/contribute/uwsandyrecovery
Text: RECOVERY to 52000 to donate $10 to United Way Hurricane Recovery

Staten Islandhttps://statenisland.recovers.org/
http://www.tunneltotowers.org/

RockawaysThe Rockaways Waterfront Alliance has setup a food, water, supplies drop-off center at Firehouse 59 at 5803 Rockaways Beach Blvd (Beach 59th St.)

Red Hook
https://redhook.recovers.org/

Astoria
https://astoria.recovers.org/

Greenpoint
Councilmen Lander's office has set-up a food, water, supplies drop-off center at Church of Ascension 122 Java St.

Lower East Side
https://lowereastside.recovers.org/

The Family + PlayLab + POOL offices are still without power and our access to email and phone service is spotty at best, so our apologies for any inconvenience.  We should be able to get back into the office on Monday.

Huge thanks for all the efforts across the city and please take care everyone! 

Dong, Jeff and Archie

+ POOOOOOOOOL!

Apologies for the lag in updates in the last few months.  We've been getting our hands dirty (literally, with water that isn't, say, Poland Springs) down by the river.  

After our Kickstarter campaign ended, we put all of your donations to use by spending a month testing the Primary Filtration at the East River.  We looked at 6 different membranes in collaboration from Gunderboom and analyzed them across 16 different parameters with the help of professors and researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.  In short, we spent four weeks in our own + Pool Science Lab in a trailer on the shore of the river.  We tested for things like turbidity, color, fecal coliforms, suspended solids, etc.  We got very good at incubating poop.

And the results were great.  The membranes performed as well if not better than expected in some cases and provided a great base to move into the next filtration layer.  It'd be a lie to say that filtration is solved, cause it's not.  In fact we still have PLENTY of work to do and right now we're starting to plan out Test#2, which we hope to do in February.

Here's some pictures from Test#1:

Test#1 tested Layer#1, which seems to make sense.

Mr. Wesley LeForce setting up the tank, pre-filter, murky river water.

Filtration membranes were slotted into the tank and river water was fed in on the right, slowly getting cleaner as it moved to through the membranes to the left.

Some of the membranes we tested and a dirty, empty tank.

Different water types, not for resale.

Science+Pool