DEDICATED TO

Dee-Thomas of the Murphy Family

 Curriculum Vitae

 Dee Thomas arrived alive on December 15th, 1948 on Seminole, Texas, to a Christian family.   He became born-again in 1953 when he surrendered his life to God’s service. Since then and now at three score and five, God has prepared him to do just that.

Going to middle and high school, Tom did many jobs.  He delivered newspapers, worked at Kinney’s Shoes, washed dishes at restaurants and ran service stations.       He graduated from high school at Hobbs New Mexico in 1967.  After graduation, he worked at potash mines, an oil refinery, went to Alaska and worked on the off-shore platform rigs for a season, worked for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union installing long distance dialing cables.  He got married in 1971, moved back to Alaska and received managerial training with Kinney Shoe Corporation and started managing his own store in Kenai Alaska, breaking many company and store records in sales.  Being successful in retail was very challenging and enjoyable as Tom always loved to find out what his customers wanted and just give them what they desired.  However, he was soon solicited by one of his customers to go to work for Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO) in their production operation working every other week making twice the money he did as a retail store manager, and getting two week a month off.  Tom took the opportunity.

Working for ARCO one week out and one week in, Tom found that he had a lot of time on his hands.  He considered the car wash business, picked out a location and designed a plan for the carwash and presented it to the city council. Looking for something else to do on his week off, a friend suggested he put his money into building some outhouses and rent them out to the oil companies for their on-shore rigs and parks in Alaska.  He could service them on his weeks in from the platform.  In the summer of 1972 he did.   Congress, in 1972, also had adopted the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment of 1972, aka “Clean Water Act.”  This was expected to create a whole new industry to contain and control waste discharges on all private property prior to the raw sewage leaving its source.  It wasn’t long and Tom had to make a decision whether to stay with ARCO, become a “company man,” or venture out and expand his business renting outhouses that had become much more profitable than his ARCO position.  

He decided to go full time in his private business and buy a pumping truck and start also pumping cesspools and residential septics as the city mayor was advertising on the radio for someone to provide this service. In  short  term,  Tom  had a  fleet  of  trucks providing on-site  wastewater  management services to over 80% of South  Central Alaska.                                Tom had a very large  “rent-a-can” business, an oilfield pumping business with contracts with Union, Standard and ARCO among others. To meet a need, Tom also designed, owned and operated Alaska’s first private septage waste disposal facility for his needs, and for his competitors’ needs.  

In 1975, Tom started his own construction company specializing in design and repair of new and failing private onsite/septic systems.  Tom became a Certified Installer, certified by the State of  Alaska  as qualified on the same level as  Civil Engineers to  design residential and light commercial on-site wastewater disposal systems.  The majority of all on-site system  repairs in south central Alaska  were done by his company, Town & Country Pumping, as he virtually had the market cornered by developing an Automatic Service Program for his customers to prevent them from ever being bothered with backup problems again.   His reputation grew and he dominated his market with over an 80% market  share. Tom  has  been  specializing  in  doing  turn-key any  onsite  wastewater treatment projects from the conception up to completion ever since.  

When the Alaska oil boom crashed in Alaska, Tom had to decide whether he wanted to stay in business with an extremely reduced revenue stream, or pursue his dream in the direction of technology.  He chose technology and to follow his dream for clean water.  So in 1987 Tom moved to Maui, Hawaii, and by 1988 had installed the first prototype of his biological process technology of what is now referred to internationally in the Wastewater Industry as the AES Technology or Intermittent Decant Extended Aeration (IDEA) process.  

By 1989, he had developed the first revolution in biological process technology since 1903.   He went on to contract with a private patent specialist to learn how to write his own patents as he figured that would be easier than trying to teach an attorney how his technology worked.  He wrote and was issued 9 U.S. Patents and over 40 International Patents between 1991 and 1997 and has more on the drawing board now.   In 1990, Tom’s wife Jeannie established Advanced Environmental Systems, Inc. and by the year 2000, the ten year established corporation had completed turn-key of over 100 projects world wide up to 1.5 million gallons per day in size for clients such as McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Price-Costco, and many others, up to the largest engineering and construction company in the world, Flour Daniel Corporation in conjunction with Newmonte Gold Corporation.   By 2000, Tom had completed over 1,000 turn-key designs for his wastewater purification technology, scalable from a single home device up to 25 million gallons per day municipal facility and completed over 100 turn-key installations globally, approximately half in America and the other half were installed in several other countries. 

In 1994, Tom contracted to have his technology undergo a strict protocol of a six month Technology Evaluation  by NSF  International,  the  world’s  largest  third  party testing laboratory located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to prove the IDEA process. The finished Technology Evaluation Report demonstrated his technology to produce non-pollutant water, eliminate 100% of toxic nitrate discharges and recover alkalinity to 7.5 -8.0 pH.  The reason Tom spent over $150,000 to receive the NSF Certification is because the Federal Water Pollution Control Act mandated that, with every permit issued since July 1,  1973,  the  best  available  demonstrated  control  technology (“BADCT”)  was  to  be specified by “brand name or equal” and installed at “every building having a toilet” as mandated by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.  He had developed the BADCT and left Maui and relocated to Reno, Nevada in 1997 so as to better serve the American market for more efficient distribution of the US Congressionally mandated “pollutant control technology” to all of his reps and authorized agents globally. Shortly after the Technology Evaluation Report was promulgated to all regulatory agencies within the U.S. and its territories and to British Columbia on March 1st, 1995. The technology eliminated all discharges of pollutants, as mandated by law, restored the alkalinity of the water to a healthy/healing pH level of 7.5-8.0, and provided for the 100% recycle and reuse of all water used, thereby eliminating 100% of all “wasting” of water, and which was scalable to any size application.   In other words, the AES Technology eliminated all discharge of pollutants at the source as required by federal law. As a  member  himself  of  the  UNITED  STATES  WASTEWATER  MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY since 1972, Tom knew that the mandate of Congress for clean water was not only federal law, but was the right of the people. Use of public sewers has been declared “unlawful” since 1985.  The very first goal and policy defined by US Congress was in Pub. L. 92-500 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment of 1972 was to eliminate the use of public sewers (publicly owned treatment works) by 1985 so as to eliminate the unlawful discharge of pollutants into navigable waters. 

On  December  15th,  2013,  Tom  and  several  other  American  nationals  established a  TRUST to provide funding to beneficiaries to initiate the “America’s Reconstruction Project, American Nationals for Clean Water, Clean Food, Clean Air and Clean Government.” Today, Tom is the world’s foremost expert in the leading extended aeration activated sludge biological process technology for purifying domestic, commercial and industrial wastewater [polluted] flows [sewage], to a non-polluting, healthy/healing and potable clean water quality.  His technology is scalable from a single domestic household to the largest municipal or industrial application requirement.  He has written and published the National Clean Water Standards of Performance and also the Clean Water Regulations.