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Visit the City of San Leandro website at www.sanleandro.org <br />The pilot was successful and in 2007 PTG was <br />formed. It is now one of only a handful of <br />companies with wastewater processing <br />technologies that pass stringent State of <br />California standards for the disinfection of water <br />for reuse, Ryan said. <br />San Leandro chosen as ideal place to locate <br />the business <br />Ryan grew up in Piedmont and now lives with <br />his wife and two young children in Marin County, <br />but he is no stranger to San Leandro. After <br />graduating Wesleyan University and receiving <br />his M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, <br />he returned to the Bay Area and started the <br />Victorian House Concentrated Coffee company <br />in San Leandro. <br /> <br />He recently sold the coffee company but said <br />his years of operating it in San Leandro gave <br />him an appreciation for the business-friendly <br />climate of the city and made him determined <br />to locate PTG in town, as well. <br />“San Leandro is an ideal place to do <br />business,” said Ryan, “It is centrally located <br />with the freeway, BART and the Oakland <br />International Airport close by. There are lots <br />of manufacturers in the area, the City of San <br />Leandro makes it easy to operate here and it <br />is safe, unlike some larger cities.” <br />The company’s headquarters are and will <br />remain in San Leandro, said Ryan. <br />"There was such a demand pouring in from <br />interested clients," said Ryan, "that we had to <br />staff up to answer the inquiries." <br />PTG is currently designing a 500,000 gallon per <br />day plant system for a wastewater treatment <br />facility in Southern California and another <br />smaller one about to be developed for a <br />Northern California municipality. The company <br />has seen interest from the food and beverage <br />and oil and gas industries for its product. <br />PTG solves a big fracking problem. <br />Ryan said oil and gas companies are calling <br />PTG because the technology solves a problem <br />in their industry - cleaning water after the <br />process of fracking -- the shorthand term for <br />using hydraulic pressure to break apart rock <br />structures to release oil or gas. <br /> <br />“It has a small footprint,” Ryan said of PTG's <br />technology. “It can be containerized and <br />eliminates the need for gas companies to truck <br />their dirty water to outside wastewater treatment <br />plants (or just dump the dirty water into local <br />water sources, as sometimes happens). This <br />makes the technology perfect for onsite fracking <br />water remediation.” <br />New and tougher rules on fracking practices that <br />are reportedly in the works may give the <br />company a boost. <br />Municipal customers <br />Ryan believes municipalities will be another of <br />the company’s biggest customers. <br /> “At a time when no city wants to spend extra <br />money (or waste precious water resources), this <br />wastewater treatment system is an ideal way to <br />conserve power and clean up dirty water well <br />enough that it can reused for agricultural <br />purposes,” he said. <br />