ELEANOR
Cleaning Lakes for a cleaner tomorrow.
ELEANOR
Designed by 4 students in the Halton District School Board, and prototyped in Aldershot Secondary School, ELEANOR is a 2 meter capsule that uses reverse osmosis filtering to purify lake water, removing excess nutrients to combat eutrophication.
Eutrophication
Eutrophication is when the levels of nutrients in water, like nitrogen and phosphorus, become too high, allowing the proliferation of toxic algal blooms, which block out sunlight and steal oxygen, starving aquatic plants and suffocating fish.
What we're doing
ELEANOR uses a reverse osmosis filter to remove 99% of the contaminants. Our plan is to help the CCIW to create a fleet of ELEANORs, to combat the eutriphication in places like Cootes Paradise Marsh and the Hamilton Harbor.