Meet your new pool. 
It’s a hybrid version of its former self. It sips chemicals instead of gulping them down and does the same with water and energy, unlike your UV system. It smells better and feels better on your eyes and skin.
Direct hydroxyl injection makes this possible. An American innovation manufactured in Colorado, hydroxyl injection can help us win on important sustainability metrics including water and energy usage and chemical output.
Meet your sustainability goals:
This advanced oxidation technology has proven customer value using quantifiable and qualitative sustainability metrics:
- Water savings
- Water quality improvements
- Chemical use reductions (put less chlorine in our shared water supply)
- Energy use reductions
- Air quality improvements
These metrics include some of my sustainability targets: water, energy, chemical use, and health. Ever the entrepreneur, I embrace the axiom, “talk is cheap,” so let’s examine some of our customer’s experiences:
Dive shop:
A dive shop committed to sustainability cut chemical use and saved water. We helped them eliminate UV and experience something better: reduced incidents of rashes among instructors and patrons while providing smoother, softer feeling water.
In addition, the equipment is exposed to lower concentrations of corrosive chemicals, so it depreciates more slowly. The resources required to manufacture a buoyancy control device or a regulator are significant and increasing the lifetime of this equipment represents another longer term sustainability win.
Competitive swim facility:
The facility removed its UV system and now runs Clear Comfort as its supplemental treatment. For a documented example, Clear Comfort’s City of Tempe story reports that Tempe saved over $20,000 a year in direct costs after replacing UV with Clear Comfort AOP. Since the switch, bathers report a preference for Clear Comfort, and staff report low, steady combined chlorine readings.
Hotels and resorts across the country:
Hotels and their patrons say the water never looked or felt better. These customers typically say they are using fewer chemicals than with their baseline traditional chemistry because of our advanced oxidation process.
Air quality improvements are immediate and noticeable with their own nested feedback loops: HVAC use and depreciation can be reduced, making it interesting for Real Estate Investment Trusts and others in the value chain. If guest amenity is a genuine priority and not just marketing fluff, or if sustainability messaging is authentic and not greenwashing, then Clear Comfort is your solution.
For our local YMCA
We’ve been able to provide tangible benefits to the local YMCA in helping reach goals for sustainability and making the facility as healthy and enjoyable as possible for members and staff.
Read this letter from the YMCA CEO.
What results have aquatic facilities measured with Clear Comfort?
Clear Comfort’s commercial case studies show 30% to 50% lower chlorine and other chemical costs and 50% to 90% fewer chloramines and other disinfection byproducts (DBPs). These are result ranges from specific sites, not a guarantee. Three published examples:
- JCC MetroWest (West Orange, New Jersey): the indoor pool’s total cost of chlorine and pH-control chemicals fell 41% over the same months of 2016 and 2017, with similar bather loads (JCC case study).
- A local YMCA (2015): water samples analyzed at the University of Colorado Boulder before and after installation showed drops of 91.5% and 84.8% in the two groups of disinfection byproducts measured, from one before and after sample pair (YMCA DBP case study).
- Two Southern California indoor facilities (May 2017 to February 2018): Clear Comfort AOP removed 94% of one major group of disinfection byproducts, compared with 83% for medium-pressure UV (UV comparison case study).
For more facility results, see 10 Reasons Why Rec Centers Love Clear Comfort’s AOP Pool Treatment and How AOP Pool Sanitation Lets You Do More With Less.
We improve our customers and partners’ sustainability hopes and offer them a real solution. As an average American, I know my environmental footprint is so huge that I feel compelled to offset that impact through quantifiable sustainability impacts. Knowing changes in my personal life still wouldn’t make a dent, I turned to enterprise to create a bigger impact. Every customer installation we do is a huge, nested set of leveraged sustainability wins:
- We help save water and avoid energy consumption
- We help facilities use less chlorine and other pool chemicals
- We improve the health and cleanliness of all the water we help steward
Public and residential pools across the U.S. can add Clear Comfort’s hydroxyl-based AOP as supplemental treatment, and facilities that do can see better water and air quality. With Clear Comfort, these facilities will witness improvements in water and air quality which have positive feedback loops. People enjoy swimming more and swim more often with less chemical infringement on their lives.
Installing Clear Comfort is like retrofitting your pool to be a hybrid version of its former self. The advanced oxidation works for you 24/7. Hydroxyls are extremely short-lived, so Clear Comfort works as supplemental treatment alongside the chlorine residual your health code requires. I look forward to every day as an opportunity to make the world a better place through business and I hope you will, too.
Frequently asked questions
Is Clear Comfort worth it for a commercial pool or aquatic center?
Clear Comfort’s commercial case studies show 30% to 50% lower chlorine and other chemical costs and 50% to 90% fewer chloramines and other disinfection byproducts. These are result ranges from specific sites, not a guarantee. Whether it pays off for your facility depends on pool size, bather load and your current treatment.
How can an aquatic facility reduce chlorine use?
Keep the water balanced, ask swimmers to shower before they swim, and add supplemental treatment that breaks down the contaminants that use up chlorine. At JCC MetroWest in New Jersey, the pool’s total cost of chlorine and pH-control chemicals fell 41% year over year after Clear Comfort was installed in 2016. The pool still keeps the chlorine residual its health code requires.
Does Clear Comfort replace chlorine at a commercial pool?
No. Clear Comfort’s hydroxyl-based AOP is supplemental treatment, so a commercial pool still keeps the free chlorine residual its state or local health code requires. The AOP breaks down contaminants in the water, which can lower how much chlorine the pool uses.
How does Clear Comfort compare with UV for commercial pools?
UV breaks down chloramines only at the treatment point, while Clear Comfort helps prevent chloramines from forming. In a May 2017 to February 2018 comparison at two Southern California indoor facilities, Clear Comfort AOP removed 94% of one major group of disinfection byproducts, compared with 83% for medium-pressure UV. Results depend on the site and its conditions.
See Clear Comfort’s AOP systems for aquatic facilities: Commercial pool systems.
