At Eastern Shore Microbes, Our Business Is Evaporating.

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✕This liner is 30 years old, it is ripped and brittle. ESM’s H.E.A.T. process means smaller ponds, less liner and more frequent opportunity for maintenance.

✕IBC tote used by ESM to send your cultures and nutrients. An ability to move these to your pond is all you need.

✕This beach is about 4 ft. wide after 3 months of treatment. Check out our “How It Works” page to see the same lagoon after 12 months of treatment.

✕With H.E.A.T. in your ponds these crystal edges turn red and it grows into the lagoon.

Eastern Shore Microbes Halophilic Evaporative Applications Technology (H.E.A.T.) is the simplest and most environmentally responsible waste brine treatment solution in existence.

Our revolutionary microbe-based approach is the only green, sustainable brine lagoon treatment process, solving waste brine treatment challenges without external energy or complicated equipment.

Whether your challenge is managing, repairing, clarifying, or closing your brine lagoons—or developing a truly Zero Liquid Discharge System for your manufacturing or waste treatment facility—Eastern Shore Microbes provides biologically based, eco-friendly waste treatment. With our sustainable brine solutions, you can achieve reliable, long-term results while reducing environmental impact.

Industries Served

Different industries.
A shared brine challenge.

Start with your industry to explore how ESM approaches high-salinity wastewater and its associated challenges.

Hide Curing & Tanning

Explore treatment for spent hide-curing brine.

Food & Condiments

Explore brine management for food production.

Oil & Gas Production

Explore biological approaches to production brines.

Power Generation

Explore brine challenges in power operations.

Landfills

Explore treatment considerations for landfill streams.

Lithium Production

Explore brine management in lithium operations.

Water Purification

Explore solutions for concentrated reject brine.

Don’t see your industry?

Tell us about your waste stream. Let’s explore the possibilities.

Brine lagoon undergoing ESM microbial treatment — ESM field imagery · Biological treatment in a brine lagoon. This image was taken 1 month after initial inoculation.

Meet H.E.A.T.

Nature’s chemistry.
Applied to your lagoon.

H.E.A.T. uses microorganisms that thrive in salty environments. ESM evaluates your brine to identify a microbial approach suited to its specific conditions.

Understand your brine

Review composition, contaminants, and lagoon conditions.
Select the microbial approach

Match cultures and nutrients to the waste stream.
Treat and observe

Apply the approach and assess lagoon performance.

Explore how H.E.A.T. works

"I first worked with ESM as a local small business advisor. As that relationship evolved, I quickly grasped ESM’s end game and wanted to be part of that vision. I joined ESM within two hours of retiring. The concepts of ESM were simple, basic, enterprising and unique. Not to mention inspiring. ESM is not trying to solve all pollution problems. But I do believe H.E.A.T. is the best natural way to deal with the 100’s of billion gallons salt water North American industry generates every year. I quickly realized that ESM’s ability to apply a process, that has naturally developed over millennia, is the best way to combat harmful injection wells and overflowing evaporation ponds without the high financial costs of makeshift fixes."

~ George – Chairman of the Board