The Restorer Technology, pioneered by Dr. John Todd, is a floating structure connected to an insitu circulation system that serves as a biological catalyst to maintain high water quality and clarity in an artificial or natural lake/pond. Utilizing the complex biochemical interactions that occur within the ecological system, the Restorer is virtually self-functioning and requires minimal maintenance. In addition, the Restorer's ecological 'engine' is powered by the sun, reducing the need for external energy consumption.

The Restorer Technology has proven to save operations and maintenance costs up to 90%, by reducing energy consumption associated with high flow through rates. Thus often the technology pays for itself within a couple years! The purification efficiency of the Restorer systems allows for the addition of fish, shrimp, and oysters, which can transform the aesthetic water feature into a food, leisure and economic resource. The Technology can be applied to fresh, brackish, and reclaimed water feature systems for Resorts, Golf Courses, and Residential and Commercial Developments. The Technology has also been applied to open recreational waterbodies and canal systems.

The engineering of the Restorer Technology utilizes the interior space of the water feature as assimilation and filtration zones to maintain high water quality standards within the water feature. Similar to an aquarium system, water is driven down through media placed at the bottom where microorganisms begin to break down the organic nutrients. The water then is circulated up to the planted Restorer(s) where the water flows across the roots of the higher plants, hosting a wide range of aquatic life from bacteria to shrimp and small fish. The water becomes dispersed and gradually moves back down through the bottom media, creating a cyclical in situ circulation.

The diversity of organisms inhabiting the various zones of the pond/water feature form the 'ecological engine'; the food web. Fueled by the nutrients entering the system (runoff, reclaimed water, residual nutrients in the ground water, etc) and powered by the sun's energy, the multi-layered food web self-designs, self-regulates, and self-perpetuates enabling it to evolve as conditions change to maintain the highest water quality standards.

Wetlands provide filtration and 'digestion' of organic nutrients via a diverse array of life forms. The interactive metabolic activities between the bacteria, microorganisms, phytoplankton, zooplankton, higher plants and animals in these aquatic ecosystems enable water purification of organic contaminants. Within a balanced wetland ecosystem, waste does not exist: everything is utilized as a food or energy resource.

Ecological technologies have arisen over the past thirty years that mimic the functionality of natural wetlands and estuaries to remove toxins and pollution from a wide variety of wastewater and stormwater. REDI works with a range of engineers that have developed various forms of engineered wetland systems that remediate domestic and industrial wastewater and stormwater. Treatment systems can be engineered for both single family homes to large developments.

REDI is also an authorized affiliate of John Todd Ecological Design and Ocean Arks Int., a world leader in innovation of ecological wastewater treatment systems including the Eco-Machine and the Restorer Technology. REDI provides custom design of appropriate and proven ecological technologies that require low operations & maintenance, enhance the environment, are aesthetically pleasing and turn waste to resources.

Following the laws of physics, energy is neither created or destroyed; it is transformed. Similarly, the principles behind industrial ecology and integrated design enable one business's 'waste' product to be transformed into resources for the same and/or another business. These principles can also be applied and integrated into watershed and resource management.

Functioning synergistically, industries turns liability into economic rewards. REDI designs holistic systems for businesses and planners that prevent further degradation of the enivironment, by producing rather than consuming additional resources.