Simple, passive treatment. Clear results.
Clearflow Gel Flocculant is a proven, polymer-based solution designed to rapidly remove suspended solids, metals, and phosphorus from stormwater and industrial process water.
Delivered in a pre-activated form, it eliminates the need for mixing, aging, or complex dosing systems—making water treatment simpler, faster, and more reliable.
- No mixing or aging systems required
- Self-dosing and self-limiting performance
- Proven across construction, mining, and industrial applications
Application and Ideal Use Cases
Gel Flocculant is designed for simple, passive water treatment; delivering effective solids removal without equipment or complexity.
Products
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Gel Flocculant Block 360 (Box of 6)
300 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are negatively charged and play a crucial role in water treatment by causing particles to form large floccules that are more easily separated from the water.
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Gel Flocculant Block Cationic Neutralizer 369 (Box of 6)
369 Neutralizer block is a negatively charged flocculant product that releases faster than the standard 300 series. It is used to neutralize the positive charge of 600 series gel flocculants or other cationic flocculants and coagulants.
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Gel Flocculant Block 394 (Box of 6)
300 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are negatively charged and play a crucial role in water treatment by causing particles to form large floccules that are more easily separated from the water.
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Gel Flocculant Block 398 (Box of 6)
300 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are negatively charged and play a crucial role in water treatment by causing particles to form large floccules that are more easily separated from the water.
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Gel Flocculant Block 474 (Box of 6)
400 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are positively charged and are used to pretreat suspended solids making them easier to bind together with 300 series blocks. 400 series gel flocculants are effective in removing heavy metals and nutrients such as phosphorus.
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Gel Flocculant Block 484 (Box of 6)
400 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are positively charged and are used to pretreat suspended solids making them easier to bind together with 300 series blocks. 400 series gel flocculants are effective in removing heavy metals and nutrients such as phosphorus.
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Gel Flocculant Block 494 (Box of 6)
400 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are positively charged and are used to pretreat suspended solids making them easier to bind together with 300 series blocks. 400 series gel flocculants are effective in removing heavy metals and nutrients such as phosphorus.
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Gel Flocculant Block 665 (Box of 6)
600 Series Gel Flocculant blocks are positively charged and are used in water treatment and wastewater purification in flocculate suspended solids that are organic in origin.
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Popular Accessories
Clearflow Gel Flocculant can be used in a wide variety of ways to meet specific project requirements with options including:
- Gel Flocculant Reactors
- Filtration and polishing stages
Key Benefits
Operational Simplicity
- Easy to deploy in ponds, tanks, or simple flow paths
- Passive, self-dosing operation with minimal oversight
- No power, pumps, tanks, or complex setup required
Reliable Treatment Performance
- Reduces TSS, turbidity, metals, and phosphorus
- Effective across variable flow, pH, and water conditions
- Delivers consistent results in real-world environments
Environmental Performance
- Proven fish-safe formulations suitable for sensitive environments
- Passive, low-energy treatment with minimal or no power requirements
- Supports compliant discharge and responsible solids capture and handling
- Minimizes chemical risk through self-dosing, self-limiting behavior
- Low carbon treatment approach with minimal environmental footprint
How It Works
Gel Flocculant delivers treatment through a simple, passive process:
- Contact – Water flows across the gel surface
- Activation – Polymer chains are released in proportion to flow and solids loading
- Floc Formation – Fine particles bind into dense, settleable flocs
- Separation – Flocculated solids settle or are captured for removal
Self-dosing, self-regulating performance—no pumps, no calibration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Clearflow Gel Flocculants are engineered water treatment consumable designed to accelerate the removal of suspended solids from water.
As TSS-laden water flows across the Gel Flocculant, the Gel Flocculant is released and interacts with the electrical charges on suspended particles, reducing the forces that keep them dispersed. The polymer then helps bind the destabilized particles together into larger, heavier flocs that can be readily separated from the water.
The process is naturally adaptive and self-limiting. Higher solids loading releases more Gel Flocculant, while cleaner water with lower TSS releases less. This passive, self-dosing behavior supports effective treatment without conventional chemical metering or dosing systems.
Clearflow Gel Flocculants are engineered to remove a broad range of suspended and colloidal contaminants from water, including fine clay, silt, sediment and other particles responsible for elevated Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and turbidity. Depending on the water chemistry and selected formulation, Gel Flocculants can also help remove Arsenic, Fluoride, Phosphorus and some metals, making them well suited to stormwater, mining, construction and industrial process-water applications.
Because every water profile is different, Clearflow offers a range of Gel Flocculant chemistries that can be matched to specific treatment challenges. Laboratory testing using a sample of the actual site water can identify the optimal formulation and demonstrate expected treatment performance before field deployment, providing a practical, science-based path from water sample to treatment solution.
Yes. Clearflow Gel Flocculants are designed for environmentally sensitive water treatment applications and have been tested for aquatic safety across multiple species and life stages. Clearflow’s environmental research, funded by the National Research Council and conducted with the University of Alberta and the University of Guelph, found that fish exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of Water Lynx and Soil Lynx products showed mild to no gill damage, high embryo survival, and normal embryo development.
Clearflow products have also undergone acute and/or chronic toxicity testing using EPA and Environment Canada-certified methods across fish, invertebrates, water fleas, and algae species. These studies showed that Clearflow Gel Flocculants are a fish-safe and environmentally responsible treatment option.
One of the key advantages of Clearflow Gel Flocculants is their adaptive, self-dosing and self-limiting treatment characteristics. The Gel Flocculants responds naturally to changing water conditions, releasing more flocculant as treatment demand increases and less as it decreases. This helps maintain consistent performance across varying flow rates and solids loading without complex chemical dosing systems or continuous operator adjustment.
For Gel Flocculants, effective treatment is therefore less about setting a conventional chemical dosage rate and more about creating the right treatment conditions. This means providing sufficient contact between the water and Gel Flocculant, appropriate mixing to promote particle collisions and floc formation, and adequate settling or clarification capacity to separate the resulting solids. A Viking West product application specialist can help determine the appropriate treatment configuration for your site.
For new or challenging applications, laboratory testing using a representative water sample is recommended. Testing helps identify the optimal Clearflow Gel Flocculant formulation, confirm treatment response and establish expected performance before field deployment; reducing trial and error and helping ensure reliable treatment from the start.
Clearflow Gel Flocculants provide a simpler, safer, and lower-maintenance alternative to traditional liquid polymer systems and many chitosan-based biopolymer treatment products.
Chitosan is commonly marketed as a natural biopolymer because it is derived from crustacean shells and other biological sources. However, chitosan products typically require activation using acidic solutions such as acetic acid in order to dissolve and function effectively in water treatment applications. Clearflow’s environmental research, funded by the National Research Council and conducted in partnership with the University of Alberta and the University of Guelph, notes that acidified chitosan was identified as a determinant factor in fish mortality and gill pathology during rainbow trout exposure studies.
Clearflow’s toxicology studies also highlight that competing chitosan products demonstrated measurable toxicity effects on fish survival and embryo development, while Clearflow Lynx products showed very low toxicity and minimal impact at environmentally relevant concentrations.
By comparison, Clearflow Gel Flocculants are engineered to provide consistent treatment performance without the need for acid activation systems, complex chemical dosing infrastructure, or continuous operator adjustment. The result is a compact and easy-to-deploy treatment solution with:
- Reduced chemical handling requirements
- Lower spill and exposure risk
- Minimal operator intervention
- No power requirements for chemical dosing
- Lower overall site infrastructure demands
- More efficient dosing by dosing for the solids rather than the water.
