151 Starlite Park
Rt. 15-Zion Crossroads
Troy, VA 22974
December 12, 2010
Clark named Fluvanna Business Person
of 2010 -At its
annul Christmas Party on December 12 held at the Lake Monticello
Clubhouse, the Fluvanna County Chamber of Commerce awarded its
annual Business Person of the Year award to Mike Clark,
President of Enviro-Klean Company. The award was presented to
Clark by Fluvanna Chamber President Cheryl Martino, vice
president of Union First Market Bank. She recognized him not
only for his leadership in using Enviro-Klean technology to
bring business to the Zion Crossroads area, but for activities
involving his construction company, Starlite Construction. Clark
and his partner, Bill Anderson, also developed Starlite
Industrial Park just south of Zion Crossroads in Fluvanna
County. Another partner, Scott and Denise Beynon, his daughter
and son-in-law, founded and operate Starlite Heating and Air.
Clark also was recognized for his most recent contribution to
the economic health of Fluvanna County and the region with his
plans to bring the main training facility for the National
Center for Law Enforcement to the county. The multi-million
dollar facility will be designed to train law enforcement
officers from throughout the world in the latest in technology
related to maintaining law and order in local communities. The
facilities will be located on a 100 acre parcel of land between
Kents Store and Ferncliff. Clark has been active in county
government affairs, helping develop the last two county
comprehensive plans. He and his wife Irene make their home in
rural Kents Store.
December
10, 2010
On Friday, December 10, Enviro-Klean
President Mike Clark, Sr., himself a Virginia Department of
Health certified Onsite Sewage System Operator, conducted a
training session for county health officials from Central
Virginia on innovations in designing and installing Alternative
Onsite Sewage Systems. At the request of regional Health
Department Official Ed Dunn, Clark conducted the session at the
site of the “By the River Restaurant” on James Madison Highway
in Buckingham County. Enviro-Klean Company, using a creative
engineering design, manufactured and installed a wastewater
treatment system at the facility more than a year ago. Using a
unique design, the company was able to provide the owners of the
historic tavern a way to turn it into a modern day restaurant
even though standard septic systems would not work and no large
central sewage system was available. The event wound up
with a luncheon and the awarding of two hours of credit for the
continuing certification each of the health department
employees.
July 15, 2010
The Company just received a copy of the Virginia Department of
Health’s approval of a design for an alternative onsite sewage
system for a homeowner in Fauquier County which will use a
“constructed wetland” for the disposal of the clear liquid
effluent produced by the system. This is the second approval for
the disposal method considered until recently experimental,
though it has been a preferred method of effluent disposal in
Europe for a number of years. The first such system installed by
Enviro-Klean was approved in 2008 and has been in operation for
more than a year between the I-64 exit at Ferncliff and Kents
Store.
Company President Mike Clark says he sees constructed wetlands
as an ever more
preferred system of effluent disposal as people discover the superior environmental nature of the process.
“Using wetlands we not only take care of the liquid effluent in an efficient manner,” Clark said, “ but we eliminate the migration of nitrates – the culprit in clogging our streams and Chesapeake Bay with oxygen-killing algae, as the exotic plants in the wetlands cell devour those nitrates onsite.”
July 1, 2010
Enviro-Klean Co. has developed a new service contract to meet the requirements of the Virginia Health Department’s new regulations covering requirements that owners of alternative onsite sewage systems to have an ongoing “relationship” with an operator providing maintenance of the systems. As customers’ existing contracts expire, Enviro-Klean is sending all of its more than 150 customers in 15 counties copies of the new contract explaining the new state requirements.
November 16th, 2009
Mike Clark, President of the Enviro-Klean Co., headquartered in Starlite Park near Zion Crossroads, provided the afternoon program for more than 120 members of the Virginia Environmental Health Association attending the group’s Annul Meeting on Friday, November 14 at the new Fluvanna County Library near Palmyra.
Clark’s presentation was on the subject of disposing of sewage effluent in constructed wetlands. His Power Point presentation outlined the advantages of using constructed wetlands as a means of replacing the use of sub-surface drip disposal or standard septic systems.
“The big advantage over the more traditional methods,” Clark told the group composed of health department officials and independent soil scientists, “is that it not only disposes of the the liquids created, but the plants in the wetlands consume the nutrients which feed the algae that are so destructive to bodies of water such as the Chesapeake Bay.”
His presentation showed pictures of the “working” constructed wetland which his firm built last year near Kents Store in Fluvanna County.
Following the presentation at the library, the meeting participants traveled to the Kents Store site where they observed the operation of the wetland, asking questions of Clark and his staff. Clark told the attendees that he believed this method of handling waste water without either contaminating ground water and feeding algae blooms is the “wave of the future.”
Enviro-Klean Co. was founded in 2003 and since then has designed, manufactured and installed more than 150 of the systems in rural areas of 14 counties in Central Virginia.
November 9th, 2009
New State of Virginia regulations effective July 1, 2009 require licensing of installers and operators of alternative onsite sewage systems.
Richard Clark, production manager of the Enviro-Klean Co., has been fully licensed by the State of Virinia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulations as an alternative onsite sewage system installer and operator.
The new state regulations will ensure professional installation of alternative systems throughout the Commonwealth.
