Ideal Places for Floating Islands

Backyard Ponds

Wastewater Lagoons

Urban Shorelines

Urban Rivers

Tidal Lagoons

Eroding Shoreline

Lakes with Algae

Stormwater Ponds

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Grown 400 sq ft island

Floating Islands, properly called BioHaven® Floating Treatment Wetlands or FTW offer a natural, cost effective, virtually maintenance free solution to improve water quality, reduce the effects of erosion and beautify waterscapes.

Cutting-Edge Green Technology

Don’t let the elegant simplicity of BioHavens® fool you. They represent the cutting-edge of the emerging Green infrastructure revolution. By mimicking natural floating islands and harnessing their natural processes to clean polluted water, they represent biomimicry at its best. Independent research studies have verified that BioHaven Floating Islands can effectively remove pollutants (including nitrates, phosphates, ammonia and toxic metals) from a water body.

30 acre natural floating wetland in Chippewa Flowage Wisconsin

Three Proven Technologies

Biohaven® Floating Islands represent the best of wetland science and ecological engineering and combine three proven technologies to create a natural, efficient and innovative method to improve water quality.

-Bioremediation: the use of naturally occurring physical, chemical and biological processes to reduce the mass, toxicity, mobility, volume or concentration of a contaminant.

-Phytoremediation: the ability of plants to remove pollution from the environment through their dependence upon both macro and micronutrients.

-Hydroponics: growing plants in nutrient-filled water without soil.

An innovative variation on constructed wetlands, BioHavens® have several advantages over constructed systems.

• Expanded wetland surface area (300 square feet per cubic foot of island body)

• Cheaper than constructed wetland technology

• Low/no maintenance means savings on long term costs

• “Green” solution – made from recycled plastics

• Potential for long term nutrient and carbon trading credits

• They don’t plug up

• Unaffected by fluctuations in water levels

• They don’t take up valuable land

• Installation in deep water is possible

• Intensified results (concentrated wetland effect)

• Modular construction (you can add more)