Aquifer Group, LLC
What We Do: Biomass
What We Do: Biomass
Aquifer Group's watershed restoration activities are expected to produce millions of tons of waste mesquite, cedar and other noxious and nonbeneficial brush supplies annually. To properly use this resource, Aquifer Group is evolving into large-scale biomass production, marketing and supply. As such, Aquifer Group is creating a new operating division, the Biomass Feedstock Division, to harvest and convert this sustainable waste resource into biomass feedstocks for renewable energy.
Traditionally, this waste material was burned in place to allow grass to spread and prevent the proliferation of rodents, snakes, and Africanized bees. Due to the enormity of the supply, burning is no longer a viable option for disposal.
Aquifer Group will operate multiple brush harvesting and chipping sites within specific brush-infested watersheds where aquifer recharge or environmental flow restoration activities are underway. To hold wood chip transportation costs to a minimum, each project would be confined to a thirty mile radius (pods) of centralized wood gasification, pelletization, or wood-fired electric production facilities.
Each harvesting pod is designed to produce about 300,000 tons of dry wood chips annually for a minimum of twenty years. In southern and western regions of Texas, Aquifer Group has identified potential for multiple brush harvesting pods with annual sustainable production of 2 to 3 million tons, with brush harvesting limited to approximately 15% of the brush-infested area of selected watersheds.
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