Legionella Compliance Solutions offers comprehensive cooling tower services in New York City and New Jersey to enhance water quality and ensure compliance with local and state cooling tower regulations. From recurring maintenance and remote monitoring to assistance with decommissioning, our cooling tower experts provide several solutions for commercial building owners and their water systems. Legionella Compliance Solutions has experience offering commercial building owners with cooling tower services in NYC & NJ, and will uphold our commitment to quality and care when servicing your building’s cooling tower.
For the owners and managers of a commercial building, one of the most critical areas in which they spend their time is the oversight of their cooling tower(s). These vital structures provide climate control and heat transfer, allowing you to continue to perform your tasks safely. However, cooling towers are also a threat to the health and safety of those who work and live in the area because they are the most frequent culprit behind Legionella outbreaks. Thus, one of the most time-consuming parts of managing a commercial building can be taking care of its cooling towers, but it does not have to be this way.
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At Legionella Compliance Solutions, we understand that you have a lot on your plate. Our years of experience in caring for water systems and bringing them into compliance with state and local regulations means that we can help you tackle the various tasks necessary to support your cooling tower operations. From conducting regular maintenance to remediating a Legionella outbreak, we offer solutions for facilities like yours and are committed to providing high-quality, thorough and customized care.
Cooling towers require both periodic and consistent maintenance. This may include treating the water, cleaning the machinery and much more. At Legionella Compliance Solutions, we can help you navigate the local and state laws that dictate how you must care for your tower—and as an added benefit, proper maintenance on your equipment will help it to last longer and perform more optimally. In many cases, even after hiring long-term Legionella and cooling tower management experts, you can still save money by improving the function of your towers. When towers are clean and properly maintained, they use less energy, which can have a dramatic impact on your utility bills. And with their many moving parts properly cared for, you will fund repairs or full replacements much less often.
Legionella Compliance Solutions offers a wide variety of cooling tower services to care for your tower and keep it in compliance with all relevant regulations. The cooling tower services that we offer include:
Cooling Tower Certifications & Validation
One of the most complex parts of owning and operating a cooling tower is keeping it in compliance with relevant regulations. Both the state and local governments have put mandatory rulings in place to govern how cooling towers are operated and how they must be cared for. The reason for this stems from a large outbreak in New York that saw more than 30 people die as a result of infection from the gram negative bacteria Legionella. The illness, which causes sudden and severe lung inflammation and pneumonia, came to be known as Legionnaires’ disease due to its origin at a convention of the American Legion. Once Legionella became known as a potentially hazardous bacteria, further studies continued to indicate that one of the most frequent places for it to proliferate and spread was within the water systems of cooling towers.
Towers offer an ideal environment for the growth and reproduction of Legionella bacteria for a variety of reasons. Legionella flourish best at temperatures between 77 and 108 degrees Fahrenheit, which is common within cooling towers. And because towers often sit in the sun, managing the water temperature appropriately can be even more difficult.
If you need assistance with bringing your tower into compliance and validating that you have abided by regulatory guidance, Legionella Compliance Solutions can help. From filing the appropriate paperwork the first time you run a cooling tower (for the season or after a new installation) to connecting you with professionals who are licensed to conduct testing, our experts understand the nuances of cooling tower certification.
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Cooling Tower Inspections
One of the most frequent tasks associated with maintaining a cooling tower is conducting regular inspections. Inspections are mandatory as part of compliance with both local and state regulations, and they must be performed by a professional: a licensed professional engineer, certified industrial hygienist, water technologist with certification, or environmental consultant. Sampling of your water to determine its components—including bacteria—must be performed every 30 days at minimum, though you need only report the findings every 90 days if they are unremarkable. Culturing for Legionella specifically, as well as inspecting the tower and its components, must also be done every 90 days. Inspections must also be conducted when a tower is brought back into use for the first time each season (generally in the spring).
Legionella Compliance Solutions can serve as your regular cooling tower inspectors so that you do not have to worry about taking the time to track your reporting deadlines and schedule appointments every month.
Cooling Tower Maintenance
Inspections are not the only part of maintaining a cooling tower. In fact, because cooling towers are made up of so many parts working in unison, regular maintenance has been deemed so important that in order to achieve compliance, your facility must provide proof that you have created and abide by a comprehensive and consistent maintenance plan. While your maintenance plan can (and should) include details about how, how often and who is responsible for cleaning and checking the tower and its equipment, your MPP (maintenance program and plan) is required to enumerate which chemical treatments you use, how you monitor them, the schedule that you use for sampling and details of the emergency procedures you have in place should Legionella be found in your system.
One of the advantages of the tower maintenance requirement is that it can bolster the longevity and function of your system. Regular cleaning and water treatment reduces the buildup of corrosion, scaling and biological contamination (such as the growth of algae and biofilms). All of these elements can coalesce on the surfaces of your machinery, interfering with the process of heat transfer. When your tower has to work harder to transfer heat, it uses more energy to achieve its intended output. In the short and long term, this costs you money in utility bills and can compromise the structural integrity of your equipment. Fouled or degrading equipment also contributes to unnecessary replacement costs.
Legionella Compliance Solutions can help you to develop a customized maintenance plan that is tailored to your building’s unique needs and risks.
Remote Monitoring Of Cooling Towers
As technology has continued to advance, new options have become available to improve the function and monitoring of cooling towers. The experts at Legionella Compliance Solutions can install a remote monitoring system in your cooling towers that allows you—and your compliance team—to check on the current status of your water system at any time. This allows for more agile responses to potential problems, cutting down the risk of outbreaks or other issues. Depending on the type of monitoring system that you select, you can enjoy immediate access to certain water quality parameters, and you can even choose a system that will alert you by email or text if a problem is noted. This means that you spend less time actively managing your cooling tower and more time on the projects that you currently have on your plate.
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Cooling Tower Decommissioning
The term “decommissioning” refers to the disassembly and deactivation of a cooling tower when it is not planned to be in use for an extended period of time. In order to keep a cooling tower safe during this stage of its life, it must be drained, disconnected from both power and water, and some of its components are removed. There are a variety of regulations in place for how a tower should be decommissioned, and failure to abide by these or properly disassemble the tower could result in a fine or other penalties.
The first step is to disinfect and drain the cooling tower; however, it must be checked first to determine if the water needs to be treated before it is drained into the sewer system. Then, some equipment is removed and the tower is disconnected from power and water supplies. This ensures that Legionella cannot build up within the system.
If you need help decommissioning a cooling tower the right way and demonstrating that you have done so in compliance with the law, Legionella Compliance Solutions can guide you through the process.
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Whether you are currently experiencing a Legionella outbreak and need immediate assistance or you would like to establish a long-term relationship with a trustworthy compliance company that can help you to achieve your goals, Legionella Compliance Solutions is here for you. We understand that the best water treatment and cooling tower services are customized to each client’s individual needs; a cookie cutter approach will not properly address all potential issues and could leave you vulnerable to compliance missteps and bacterial colonization.
If you own a commercial facility that operates cooling towers, you already have a lot to think about in keeping up with consistently shifting regulations and the myriad needs of your tower. Trusting a competent and reliable Legionella and water treatment company with the many steps in successfully managing a cooling tower can dramatically reduce the burden on you and help you to ensure that you fulfill all of your mandatory requirements. If you own a commercial building in New York City or New Jersey, keeping up with the ever-changing local and state cooling tower laws can be difficult. Thus, entrusting a professional water treatment company will ensure you never receive a notice from the state Department of Health regarding your cooling tower. Contact Legionella Compliance Solutions today at (212) 729-9361 to learn more or schedule an evaluation online today. Our experts will be more than happy to help!