New Health Canada guidance on NOM creating a market for Ontario innovation
MANTECH CEO Robert Menegotto got a lot of puzzled looks when he first started marketing his company’s chemical oxygen demand (COD) analyzer to drinking water plants. “You need to go talk to the wastewater folks,” they told him. “We just don’t do COD in drinking water.” For years, wastewater plant operators have used COD — a measure of the reactivity of organic material in the wastewater — to monitor the effectiveness of their treatment processes. However, few drinking water plants [...]
Ready or not? Managing Ontario’s municipal water and wastewater assets
Ontario municipalities are facing a deadline. Under provincial Regulation 588/17, they must have an asset management policy in place by July 2019, followed by targets for Levels of Service by July 2021. These requirements makes good business sense. To manage infrastructure appropriately, you need to know what you have and what condition it’s in. An asset management plan allows you to predict when your infrastructure will need maintenance or should be replaced, so you can budget accordingly, rather than face [...]
Research supports opportunities for Ontario’s wastewater treatment plants to process off-site organics and generate RNG
The primary goal of wastewater treatment is to remove organic material and nutrients that can hurt lakes and rivers and be detrimental to human health. No question, that’s a critical job. But more and more municipalities across Ontario are adding a second objective: extracting value from wastewater. And there’s plenty of value to squeeze out. Anaerobically digesting sludge produces biogas, which can be captured and used to provide heat, fuel vehicles, create electricity or feed into the natural gas distribution [...]