Manitoba’s Red River Basin Commission (RRBC) has honoured the City of Selkirk’s wastewater treatment plant with the North Chapter Award, which recognizes the community’s contribution and co...
https://esemag.com/water/manitobas-selkirk-wwtp-honoured-for-innovation-sustainability/
The City of Toronto has paused its three stormwater charge public consultation sessions set for April, following the mayor’s instructions to align its potential implementation with Toronto’s ...
https://esemag.com/stormwater/toronto-pauses-stormwater-charge-consultations/
With the amount of water required by Samsung Semiconductor expected to more than double by 2030, the South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate has formed agreements to purify and use ...
Global supply chain issues are once again causing delays around creating the infrastructure necessary for the City of Calgary to reintroduce fluoride into its drinking water. In summer 2023 mun...
A new $4.3-million federal grant will allow Dalhousie University to support the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority (AFNWA) to successfully deliver its mandate as the first Indigenous-owned ...
In an incident follow-up to municipal officials in Edmonton, EPCOR’s plant director at the E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant said that it took a crew of about 30 workers an entire work week to a...
AtkinsRéalis has been awarded a front-end engineering and design services contract by TESCanada H2 Inc. for a major initiative in Quebec that aims to produce up to 70,000 tonnes of clean hydroge...
Despite the escalation of costs associated with expanding the Raymond A. Barker Water Treatment Plant in the Town of Collingwood, Ontario, local officials have now finalized a partnership and wat...
Municipal officials in the Alberta village of Big Valley want to undertake a geotechnical inspection of its wastewater lagoon, following alleged violations that date back to early 2022. Big V...
Numbered company 1230934 Ontario Limited and Waste Wood Disposal Ltd. have been fined for breaches of the Ontario Water Resources Act (OWRA) and the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) in relation...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its national standard for PFAS limits in drinking water, making it the newest contaminant to face protection limits in drinking water ...
As the population grows in the City of Edmonton, and an organics collection program continues to roll out to apartments and condos, local officials are weighing their options for how to treat wha...
https://esemag.com/news/edmonton-weighs-options-to-expand-organics-processing-capacity/
An Ontario real estate development company, its president, a consulting firm, and its general manager, have been fined a total of $266,000 in relation to inadequate stormwater infrastructure that...
Following Ontario’s Environmental Protection Act amendment in late 2023 to fine landfills when non-compliance concerns arise, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has now ide...
https://esemag.com/infrastructure/ontario-releases-landfilling-site-violations-now-subject-to-fine/
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has announced that it hopes to achieve carbon neutral operations at its Chalk River Laboratories campus in Ontario by 2040. Among the actions already tak...
The K.J. Gardner, Canada’s largest quick-response flagship offshore supply vessel equipped for pollution cleanup, emergency towage and support duties, has a new home base in British Columbia’...
A Quebec-based cosmetics company has been fined $500,000 for using perfluorononyl dimethicone in eye and lip pencil products without previously providing the government with the required regulato...
ControlChem Canada Ltd., a water treatment solutions supplier, is mourning the death of one of its workers, following an April 4 accident at its facility in Burlington, Ontario. According to an O...
Following a successful one-year pilot phase with 16 businesses in British Columbia, the Victoria-based Synergy Foundation’s Circular Economy Accelerator program identified 714 circular solution...
Following a Vancouver Coastal Health directive to improve its water quality, the qathet Regional District has received an $11-million grant to reform the main components of the Lund Waterworks Di...
https://esemag.com/water/bcs-lund-set-for-major-overhaul-of-district-water-system-with-11m-grant/
A new report from the Canadian Water & Wastewater Association (CWWA) reveals that more than 80% of survey respondents see the use of natural infrastructure as a potential solution for certain iss...
https://esemag.com/news/cwwa-survey-shows-significant-interest-in-natural-infrastructure-solutions/
The federal government has proposed a new $6-billion Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund to accelerate the construction and upgrading of critical housing infrastructure, including water, wastewate...
https://esemag.com/wastewater/federal-budget-set-to-launch-6b-canada-housing-infrastructure-fund/
A pilot project between the University of Alberta and the City of Calgary is nearing completion after exploring the development of cost-effective and energy efficient processes and control strate...
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers and the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-Ontario (ACEC-Ontario) are applauding aspects of the new provincial budget as officials earma...
https://esemag.com/news/engineering-groups-highlight-infrastructure-investments-in-ontario-budget/
3M’s $10.3-billion PFAS settlement with U.S. public water suppliers has been finalized by the U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, giving water systems financial resources to remo...
Health Canada’s Water and Air Quality Bureau has opened public consultations around its proposal to maintain seven existing operational parameters for drinking water. A guideline technical ...
Just one week after the International Joint Commission announced an official investigation into ongoing selenium contamination from coal mining in British Columbia’s Elk River Valley into Lake ...
Following a $140-million investment in southeastern Manitoba wastewater infrastructure, the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is looking to partner on more new, large-scale infrastructure projects...
Following the completion of a review by a Metro Vancouver Board task force, construction on the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant is set to resume, only now the project price tag has soared ...
Using a process called thermal decomposition, University of Waterloo researchers say they have converted epoxy into activated carbon to effectively remove 94% of nanoplastics from wastewater. A...
https://esemag.com/solid-waste/uwaterloo-researchers-trap-nanoplastics-in-activated-carbon/
A group of Texas farmers is suing a Maryland-based company, which also produces biosolids in Canada, over claims their farms were damaged by a biosolids-based fertilizer contaminated with PFAS. ...
https://esemag.com/news/texas-farmers-launch-pfas-lawsuit-against-biosolids-company/
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is forming a Water Sector Cybersecurity Task Force to combat hacking threats faced by water systems throughout the country. The March 19 joint annou...
https://esemag.com/infrastructure/epa-moves-to-form-water-sector-cybersecurity-task-force/
Alberta has targeted $482 million over three years for municipal water programs and infrastructure in its 2024 budget, with an emphasis on managing water for the future. The earmarked spending ...
https://esemag.com/water/alberta-budget-boosts-water-spending-to-address-drought-growing-population/
Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has received a $1.4-million research grant to advance the understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater treatment plants, sewer networks, a...
https://esemag.com/news/tmu-aims-to-learn-more-about-ghg-emissions-from-wwtps-sewer-networks/
Northern Pulp, the Nova Scotia paper mill that closed its doors in 2020 after the province rejected plans for a new effluent treatment facility, has received a one-year extension to complete a ne...
Following years of calls to modernize the Canadian Iron Ring ceremony for graduating engineers, which has been criticized for being outdated and non-inclusive, the ceremony’s governing body has...
Equipment-based requirements to lower volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from a variety of oil and gas facilities are now in a 60-day consultation period from Environment and Climate Change Canada...
https://esemag.com/news/canada-furthers-plan-to-cut-vocs-at-oil-and-gas-facilities/
British Columbia is not currently managing hazardous spills as effectively as it could be, warns a new report from the Office of the Auditor General of B.C. Among the concerns raised in the F...
https://esemag.com/hazmat-remediation/bc-must-update-plans-for-hazardous-spill-response-audit-warns/
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has introduced two statements into some existing Management Systems Standards to ensure that climate change issues are considered by orga...
Northern Alberta’s Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) that alleges negligence over a failure to communicate multiple tailings...
New requirements for workplace occupational health and safety came into effect in March for Newfoundland and Labrador, as the province raises the threshold for the number of employees that trigge...
Ontario’s Resource Productivity & Recovery Authority (RPRA) has announced that producers and producer responsibility organizations affiliated with batteries, IT, telecommunications, AV equipmen...
Canada has agreed to the creation of a binational board of experts to address selenium contamination washed downstream from coal mining in the Elk River Valley in British Columbia into Lake Kooca...
https://esemag.com/water/ijc-takes-lead-to-resolve-cross-border-selenium-contamination-controversy/
Ontario’s Resource Productivity & Recovery Authority (RPRA) has opened consultations to determine what constitutes a large producer of hazardous special products, as smaller producers will no l...
The Ontario Town of Casselman is planning to move forward with a chlorine dioxide oxidation pilot project to address rising levels of manganese in the South Nation River turning the community’s...
Major water and wastewater infrastructure funding totalling more than $51 million was announced in February for Saskatchewan to support 34 projects that range from the addition of reverse osmosis...
Duncan’s First Nation in northern Alberta has unveiled its new water treatment plant, made possible through a $13-million investment from Indigenous Services Canada. Duncan’s First Nation C...
https://esemag.com/news/duncans-first-nation-in-alberta-unveils-new-13m-wtp/
Ontario’s Municipality of North Perth, just northwest of Kitchener, has approved a $2.2-million, five-year contract with Ontario Greenways Inc., for the removal, hauling, and application of bio...
https://esemag.com/biosolids/ontarios-north-perth-signs-2-2m-biosolids-hauling-application-deal/
Water First Education & Training Inc. has launched its first water treatment plant operator training internship outside Ontario, as it partners with the Interlake Reserves Tribal Council in Manit...
https://esemag.com/water/water-first-begins-first-water-operator-internship-in-manitoba/
Ontario’s Peel Region is investing more than $335 million to expand the wastewater treatment capacity at its G.E. Booth Water Resource Recovery Facility by 40 million litres per day. Peel Reg...
A recent Utah State University (UTU) study created from utility survey data estimates that some 20% of water pipes across the U.S. and Canada are in need of replacement and contribute to some 260...
https://esemag.com/water/us-and-canada-face-260000-water-main-breaks-annually-study-says/
Manitoba’s Environment and Climate Change Minister has announced that the provincial government is investigating how “mechanisms such as fines” can be used to intervene sooner for incidents...
The Ontario City of North Bay plans to begin PFAS environmental remediation efforts at its local airport in June, after local officials finalized an $8-million contract with Jacobs Consultancy Ca...
A federal court ruling in November proved a major challenge to the Liberal government’s single-use plastics ban, when it found it unconstitutional to add “plastic manufactured items” to the...
https://esemag.com/news/single-use-plastics-ban-remains-in-effect-until-appeal-is-heard/
By using a new microscopy detection method, a recent study found that one litre of bottled water contained an average of 240,000 fragments of nanoplastics, exceeding previous estimates by up to 1...
Preliminary demolition work will get underway in one month’s time for the construction of a new $19-million nutrient management facility (NMF) in Red Deer, Alberta, as local officials aim to ex...
Winnipeg spilled more than 228 million litres of raw sewage into the Red River since February 7, as maintenance crews worked to create a functioning bypass for a burst pipe near the Fort Garry Br...
Montreal-headquartered water and wastewater treatment equipment company, Ovivo, has acquired E2metrix Inc., also based in Quebec, following two years of collaboration to create a commercially-via...
https://esemag.com/hazmat-remediation/ovivo-advances-e2metrix-pfas-collaboration-into-acquisition/
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions has donated two new ultrafiltration membrane pilot units to the Walkerton Clean Water Centre’s (WCWC) technology demonstration facility for training and pi...
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) in British Columbia has reached a $3.2-million purchase agreement for the Shawnigan Village Waterworks private water system from Lidstech Holdings Ltd...
https://esemag.com/news/bcs-cvrd-reaches-3-2m-purchase-agreement-for-shawnigan-private-water-system/
As drought conditions push reservoir levels across southern Alberta to their lowest levels in decades, Lethbridge city council has announced “proactive steps” to address water supply concerns...
While the private owners of the Ambassador Bridge at the Windsor-Detroit border have gained support from Detroit lawmakers to allow new classes of hazardous materials to cross, Windsor’s city c...
Ontario leaders have begun to shift the province to a project list approach for environmental assessments as they kick off the spring sitting of the Legislature. The project list approach is pa...
Juries have awarded a combined $360 million in damages in relation to two lawsuits filed against Real Water brand drinking water, a Nevada-based company that plaintiffs accused of causing liver d...
https://esemag.com/water/nevada-juries-award-360m-in-bottled-water-liver-damage-lawsuits/
Higher Excess Soil Registry fees for users will be spread out over five years instead of three, following feedback from a consultation period, says Ontario’s Resource Productivity and Recovery ...
The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) says it supports a new private member’s bill that wants to remove the classification of plastic manufactured items as “toxic” under the C...
The Nova Scotia Town of Trenton has been fined $100,000 for raw sewage deposits over a period of seven months into Lowden Brook, a fish-bearing tributary to the East River. Lowden Brook support...
https://esemag.com/wastewater/nova-scotias-trenton-fined-100k-for-raw-sewage-leaks-into-brook/
Hydro-Québec has been fined for changes made during its 120–kilovolt transmission line project, after the utility developed work areas and paths, including embankments around watercourses, and...
https://esemag.com/infrastructure/hydro-quebec-fined-127k-for-transmission-line-project-infractions/
After years of odour complaints about a biosolids composting facility in Moncton, New Brunswick, the city council is requesting that the facility either enclose the materials on its property, or ...
In an effort to unlock more housing opportunities and support the province’s growing population, Ontario has opened up its funding applications window for $200 million over three years to help ...
As the Canadian Space Agency invites innovators to compete in the development of technologies that could remove contaminants found in Moon water, Western University is garnering attention for new...
https://esemag.com/news/canada-launches-1m-moon-water-purification-challenge/
The City of Hamilton has selected infinitii ai inc.’s software for a two-year Combined Sewer Overflow Outfall Flow Monitoring program at 17 locations, with analytics to be provided by AECOM. �...
In its pre-budget submission, the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies– Ontario (ACEC-Ontario) is calling on the provincial government to introduce standardized contracts to ensure s...
Pennsylvania-based water and wastewater treatment system company, Newterra, has announced the acquisition of the aeration and mixing assets from Aeromix Systems Inc., a division of Fluence Corpor...
https://esemag.com/wastewater/newterra-acquires-aeromix-systems-aeration-and-mixing-assets/
The New Brunswick City of Saint John has already made back some $500,000 of its $3-million capital investment in the first year of an overhauled waste program that introduced curbside recycling a...
https://esemag.com/solid-waste/saint-johns-new-curbside-recycling-program-has-strong-first-year/
More than $30,000 in provincial water fines have been levied against a Thunder Bay-area trailer park and its management for failing to comply with a series of requirements under the Safe Drinking...
Charlottetown’s water and sewer utility manager says a combination of public education, low-flow fixtures and water metering led to a drop in water consumption that began around 2012, in spite ...
https://esemag.com/water/charlottetown-credits-three-pronged-strategy-for-reducing-water-use/
After small amounts of water somehow entered a vault housing high-voltage cables powering water distribution pumps at the E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant, EPCOR announced a non-essential water b...
https://esemag.com/infrastructure/water-damaged-cables-led-to-epcors-edmonton-water-ban/
Ohio fire departments, local governments, and government-owned airports are now able to turn in stockpiled Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) containing hazardous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance...
https://esemag.com/water/ohio-starts-pfas-containing-firefighting-foam-takeback-program/
Under this regulation, excess soils containing specific metals within the range of natural background concentrations may be prevented from beneficial reuse. The post Naturally-elevated metals c...
Previous research has shown only partial removal and, in some cases, apparent formation of PFAS during some wastewater treatment processes, which was attributed to transformation of unmeasured PF...
The deaths of some 40 coho salmon in Brothers Creek near West Vancouver, British Columbia, in late 2023 returned Canada’s attention to the risks of a tire preservative, now identified as 6PPD-q...
https://esemag.com/wastewater/canadian-researchers-take-on-6ppd-quinone/
It is heartwarming to know now that optimism about the future of the “dirty” Don River in 1970 was not in vain. For over a decade now, work has been done to reroute the Don, clean polluted so...
https://esemag.com/editorial/quiet-flows-the-now-not-so-dirty-don/
The drive towards automation and advancement in low-cost sensor technology has many organizations overwhelmed with data and not knowing where to start. More data has been collected in the last se...
https://esemag.com/stormwater/understanding-different-kinds-of-stormwater-data/
The Moncton, N.B. water treatment facility’s fire protection system upgrade needed a solution that would keep the plant operational in the event of an emergency. Victaulic’s Vortex System™ ...
https://esemag.com/water/moncton-upgrades-fire-protection-system-water-treatment-facility/
The Bailie Booster Pumping Station and Reservoir supply water to the Burlington, Ontario area. As part of its asset management program, Halton Region retained Associated Engineering to upgrade an...
https://esemag.com/water/burlington-pumping-station-commissioned-supply-chain-delays/
Ivey International Inc. has developed a new formulation from its Ivey-sol® surfactant enhanced remediation technology to address PFAS contamination in groundwater, soil, and bedrock regimes. Tes...
https://esemag.com/water/surfactant-based-technology-effective-removing-pfas-soil-groundwater/
Kangiqsualujjuaq’s current water source is an elevated water supply lake north of the community, referred to as Imirtaviup Tasinga Lake. The post Emergency water reservoir refill needed for K...
In the early 2010s, FMFN undertook a series of community engagement and planning exercises to help them document and articulate their membership’s vision for the future. The post Creating a s...
When ice forms within a water tank, it can prevent routine maintenance from being carried out The post Delivering a reliable water supply in all weather conditions using active tank mixing app...
This client had acquired and repurposed three large stainless steel beer tanks to function as interconnected leachate storage tanks. The post Asset management strategies in remote and extreme e...
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When liquids evaporate, and materials which they contain in solution or suspension are left behind, this becomes a useful process to concentrate solutions or to help separate materials. The pos...
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In the early 1970s, groundwater draw caused subdivisions southeast of Houston to sink. The post Shifting from groundwater to surface water treatment appeared first on Environmental Science & E...
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The Greater Vancouver Water District is celebrating 100 years of providing high-quality drinking water to the region’s 2.8 million residents through a complex treatment and transmission system ...
https://esemag.com/infrastructure/greater-vancouver-water-district-reaches-century-milestone/
After facing several outbreaks in recent years, Iqaluit is launching a five-year wastewater monitoring study to add another layer of detection for tuberculosis in Nunavut. Lead researcher Dr. Gon...
https://esemag.com/wastewater/iqaluit-wastewater-monitoring-tuberculosis-detection/
As of January 1, Quebec water consumption data has been made publicly available on the Ministry of the Environment’s website for the first time. This information comes as the province also rais...
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Canada is investing $2.1 million for three academic institutions to increase research on microplastics and their potential impact on human health. McGill University, Memorial University of Newfou...
https://esemag.com/water/schools-research-impact-microplastics-human-health/
TC Energy Corporation’s plan to provide 1,000 megawatts to Ontario’s electricity grid through pumped hydro storage is set to form a long-term revenue framework, as the province outlines the p...
https://esemag.com/water/ontario-pumped-energy-storage-project/
A malfunction with a fluid catalytic cracker unit at an oil refinery in Burnaby, British Columbia, during the early morning of January 21, led to a strong chemical smoke odour that blanketed the ...
https://esemag.com/air-pollution/burnaby-refinery-malfunction-leads-to-flurry-of-odour-complaints/
Following France-based Egis’ acquisition of McIntosh Perry, and Beam Longest & Neff, LLC last summer, all firms have now begun to operate under the Egis banner. Egis’ expertise spans sectors ...
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