Product Spotlight: Effluent Filter Designed to be Cleaned in Place

Product Spotlight: Effluent Filter Designed to be Cleaned in Place

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Watercore built its C4C effluent filters to be efficient at solids separation, while focusing on convenience for distributors, installers, service techs and homeowners. 

“We set out to create a better way to service effluent filters, incentivizing the homeowner to leave the filter in place, thus minimizing callbacks to the installer as well as making the service tech’s job much more efficient,” says Mike Hornback, sales representative for Watercore. 

The result is the C4C series, a filter that can be cleaned without removing it from its housing, eliminating mess and any contact with effluent. The filter utilizes an internal wheel design featuring multiple blades that protrude through each vertical filtering slot. The wheel is attached to a hollow tube that extends out the top of the filter and has a handle attached. Simply moving the handle up and down moves the blades through the slots, cleaning the filter.

“This action not only clears the filtering slots but clears the solids from inside the filtering cartridge as well,” Hornback says.

For an additional cleaning method, the C4C series has a feature that allows a garden hose to be attached directly to the handle. This allows water to flow through an internal perforated tube and spray through the filtering slot to further rinse the filter if needed. 

C4C filters can handle 800 gpd with a 1/16-inch filtration. The outlet port on the C4C tee baffle accepts 3- and 4-inch schedule 40 PVC and 4-inch SDR with no adapters needed. Filters can be purchased as a complete unit or components can be bought separately. 

The filters are NSF certified and filter cartridges are interchangeable, working with most existing tee baffles. “This allows anyone to take advantage of the design without any extra expense to retrofit their existing system,” Hornback says. “Just pull out the existing cartridge and drop the C4C in its place.”

The team at Watercore prototyped and field tested the design for roughly 18 months to ensure it would perform in all situations, including extreme conditions and to confirm installing and cleaning the filter was efficient and easy. 

“It’s so user friendly that even the homeowner can easily do it themselves in emergency situations,” Hornback says. 812-493-4550; www.watercorefilter.com 



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