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UltraStrip to be Featured on ABC Affiliate Channel 25 Story About Hurricane Katrina and Waveland, Mississippi
Wednesday March 1, 7:30 am ET


STUART, Fla., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UltraStrip Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: USTP - News), the Stuart, Florida-based homeland security technology company, announced that they will be featured on WPBF News 25, the local West Palm Beach, Florida ABC affiliate. News anchor Jon Shainman will be reporting on the current status of the Gulf region after Hurricane Katrina's devastation six months ago. Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., the wholly owned subsidiary of UltraStrip, responded to the City of Waveland, MS with its Mobile Emergency Filtration System. Waveland was hit by the eye of the hurricane and the Category 4 and 5 winds, plus the 40 to 50-foot tidal wave that destroyed the City and ruined its municipal water system. Ecosphere provided clean drinking water to the people of the City for six weeks. The feature is scheduled to air on Channel 25 at 11:00 PM today (Wednesday) and 6:00 PM on Thursday.
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Mickey Donn, President of Ecosphere, said, "It was extremely gratifying to be able to assist Mayor Tommy Longo and the people of Waveland. The unprecedented destruction and lack of clean water for cooking, cleaning, bathing, as well as drinking, enabled us to be a lifeline to that community. The experience we gained while in Waveland enabled us to develop the Tactical Water Filtration Truck that will allow us to be even more effective in responding to future water crises."

On December 5, 2005, the Company signed a Joint Marketing and Supply Agreement with Pierce Manufacturing, Inc. (a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck Corporation, "OSK", NYSE). Pierce will assemble the Company's mobile filtration units into the Pierce truck chassis and body to produce the Tactical Water Filtration Truck and will market the product through its well- established national sales force and international dealerships. UltraStrip produces its filtration equipment through its subsidiary, Ecosphere Technologies, Inc.

UltraStrip is a technology firm that develops and manufactures patented equipment to provide solutions to homeland security, military, and environmental problems. The Company's proprietary Mobile Emergency Filtration Systems and Tactical Water Filtration Trucks, provided through its Ecosphere Technologies subsidiary, are breaking new ground by transforming its powerful water-filtration and purification technology for use in the world's most challenging applications, including the military (e.g., for troop deployments) and Homeland Security (e.g., to areas hit by man-made or natural events that damage vital water resources). The Company's Mobile Emergency Filtration System successfully operated for six weeks in Waveland, MS following that community's devastation from Hurricane Katrina, providing bulk water for drinking, bathing, cooking, and cleaning purposes. UltraStrip's patented robotic water jetting systems are designed to provide an environmentally safe coatings removal process in both heavy marine, automobile, and above-ground storage tank applications. The robotic systems have been utilized for U.S. Navy ships (including the U.S.S. Cole after its attack off the coast of Yemen), cruise ships, and tankers in shipyards throughout the world. Additional information on UltraStrip can be obtained through its websites http://www.ultrastrip.com and http://www.ecospheretech.com .