May 26, 2014
What if a dip in the backyard pool felt more like a swim in a clear mountain lake? That's the experience New Jersey-based BioNova is seeking to re-create with its natural swimming pools. Instead of chlorine, its "living" pools use plants, beneficial bacteria and microbes to clean the water.
What if a dip in the backyard pool felt more like a swim in a clear mountain lake? That's the experience New Jersey-based BioNova is seeking to re-create with its natural swimming pools. Instead of chlorine, its "living" pools use plants, beneficial bacteria and microbes to clean the water.
This just-completed natural swimming pool at a home in Ojai was designed and built by Anthony Archer-Wills and California BioNova of Ojai. (Animal Planet)
"Basically we take what Mother Nature already does to clean ponds and lakes, and we enhance that and make sure the balance is in favor of healthy water using microorganisms," says Troy Becker, co-owner of California BioNova in Ojai. As one of two California dealers for BioNova (the other is Questar Pools in Escondido), it is designing and constructing pools from L.A. to the Oregon border.
Becker and his partners just finished helping complete BioNova's first natural swimming pool in the Western U.S. It's on the 21/2-acre Ojai residence of L.A. restaurateur Spoon Singh (Venice Ale House, the Larchmont), Amelia Fleetwood (daughter of Mick) and daughter Izzy, 8.
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Becker and his partners just finished helping complete BioNova's first natural swimming pool in the Western U.S. It's on the 21/2-acre Ojai residence of L.A. restaurateur Spoon Singh (Venice Ale House, the Larchmont), Amelia Fleetwood (daughter of Mick) and daughter Izzy, 8.
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