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Contents ISSN-0835-605X

February/March 2003 Vol. 16 No.1

Issued March, 2003 ÂŁS&ÂŁ invites articles (approx. 1000 - 1500 words) on water, wastewater, hazardous waste treatment and other environmental

protection topics. If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration, please contact Steve Davey at steve@esemag.com. Please note that Environmental Science & Engineering Publications Inc. reserves the right to edit

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FEATURES

Could Kyoto be an embryonic Godzilla - Editorial comment by Tom Davey 10

Environmental Milestones through the years

22-26

Spring conference previews

Cleaning up brownfields in residential areas

The facts behind BC's Zero AOX effluent regulation

When pharmaceuticals arrive at the tap

Treating pig farm wastes

Great Lakes clean-up progress disappoints IJC

Confused about Best Management Practice

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Literature Reviews

Lakeview WWTP

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Canadian technology recycles waste gypsum

Environmental News

Sudbury reduces wastewater chlorine use by 32%

Classifieds

Research shows global air pollutants may offset

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Essay

Could Kyoto be an embryonic Godzilla?

GlobalWarming is dominating

political agendas around the world with media coverage at saturation point, in inverse proportion to public and political understanding of the complex factors

America". Epidemiological conse quences of his observations were not available but there is evidence of how

deadly air pollution can be, much clos er to home.

( States' population is ten times

involved. I am not a newcomer to this debate. I first wrote about it in 1968

when Global Warming was regarded as a scientific abstraction, with public interest at the same level of public understanding as Double Jeopardy audiences. Indeed, "jeopardy" might be adjectivally appropriate for the possible self-immolation that Canada is doing to itself in the way it deals with the Kyoto Accord.

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that of Canada but its voracious

Air Pollution I

appetite for fossil fuels is

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The ultimate synthesis?

* working on global warming emis sions, some of which may be effective yet fall outside the com plex Kyoto protocols. After all, this is a country which still has a solar powered car parked on the moon, and California, for exam ple, led the world with its stringent air pollution legislation for auto

hy Tom Oevey

Aimtepi^je ca,b,y

mobiles.

On an encouraging note, the really serious "hole" in the Ozone Layer is said to have shrunk by as much as 50 percent following the banning of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a remarkable turnaround

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trical energy lavishly. Both Germany and Japan had already industrialized at an amazing

pace, transforming economies which had been decimated by World War II, into highly sophisticated economies in some two decades.

In 1968, I wondered, in print, what would happen when large countries such as India and China inevitably industrialized. Now reality has set in. China now has about 1.2 billion people and a visit to shopping malls every where demonstrates that China is an

industrial superpower with an accom panying rise in various global warming emissions and serious air pollution. An engineer, who is a frequent visitor to China, recently described the air pollu tion in its major cities as "vastly exceeding anything we see in North

By Tom Davey, Editor

many others, the US is disin

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Editorial Comment

lion and India about 600 million.

Both were, then, undeniably Third World countries lacking the vora cious energy appetites of North America, where virtually every household had automobiles, along with a variety of appliances, all of

I anywhere. Like India, China and clined to sign Kyoto but the US

At the time I first wrote about

the Global Warming issue, China had a population of some 800 mil

India now has a population exceed ing one billion people who possess highly sophisticated technologies and a rapidly growing economy. The United States, of course, is unrivaled as the most powerful industrial com plex in the world. The United

from a definite threat to human

London reported 12,000 official deaths from the Great Smog over five decades ago. The actual death rate would have been higher had not the British Government, rather deviously, shortened the mortality reporting peri od by releasing some highly manipula tive data. The Great Smog demonstrat ed that mortality from various air pol lutants can be just as devastating as water-borne sicknesses but not as easy either to itemize or localize.

The figures in my 1968 article pos

health, including skin cancers and other diseases. But even the CFC ban

was difficult to police and a thriving black market emerged following the ban on the manufacture of harmful CFCs.

Undeniably, the serious conse

quences ofthe Ozone Hole prompted a rapid, and effective, international response with the introduction of new chlorofluorocarbon substitutes.

It is often forgotten that massive livestock operations are significant

tulated massive increases in human

producers of methane, as well as mil

populations, all of which require

lions of toimes of manure which pose

forests to be felled, ore to be mined,

serious threats to both surface and

fuel to be burned and massive increas

underground water supplies. Have these major, and quite complex, envi ronmental impacts been computed into the Kyoto protocols? Chernobyl, for example, is outside the Kyoto proto cols but its protective concrete sar cophagus (poured from helicopters by incredibly brave men hovering over a nuclear inferno) remains a threat to the European continent.

es in livestock production, as well as an exponential rise in smokestack industries - all major contributors to Global Warming. The predictions, unfortunately, were realized. China has since industrialized at a fantastic rate

while its population dwarfs that of Canada, which, ironically, has a larger land mass than China.

March 2003, Environmental Science & Engineering 7

Environmental Science

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Essay emissions accounting on a global

Junk Yard Wars? Editor & Publisher

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military capabilities. This is not a reflection on our military personnel who have always served with distinc tion on land, sea and in the air. Our military equipment is quite another story, some of which requires the same ingenuity displayed in Junk Yard Wars, simply to keep going. Yet our Federal Government has

committed to Kyoto protocols despite the fact that most Canadian provinces oppose Kyoto. Amazingly, it appears the Federal Government can sign Kyoto with an Order in Council. We have signed the first phase of what could have devastating repercussions on the Canadian economy with insignificant effects on Global Warming. This is what I feel is really absurd - a serious potential for eco

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tions in Global Warming. Supporting Kyoto I am not a heretic regarding any realistic moves leading to a reduction of CO2 emissions. In fact, I totally sup port the ideals of Kyoto. It is the modus operandi of implementation that I find disturbing. We have gotten into a fiscal quagmire of emissions trading and other complexities, literal ly bartering Canada's future by ventur ing into the unknown territory, retard ing our industrial development while paying off the environmental malfea

Dr. Robert C. Landine

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Some of the economic theories emerg ing from the mists, are redolent of ret ribution rather than trading. Emissions trading will involve a vast and complex array of scientific variables including international law, forestry, oceanogra phy, limnology, climatology, and geol ogy, to name but a few. This incestuous inbreeding of such learned but diverse disciplines is a global voyage into the unknown with out maps or compasses. It is true that Columbus set out without proper maps, or even knowledge of longitude. While his heroic voyages are justly celebrated, it should be noted he actu

ally set out for India, never got there and in three voyages, he never set foot on North American soil.

Viking ships, however, had landed in both Greenland and Newfoundland,

being able to cross the Atlantic in open boats and form settlements simply because the climate was warmer then -

hence the name Greenland. In short, the Planet Earth is no stranger to Global Warming or Global Cooling. Where will our uncharted voyage to

Kyoto lead us? Who will be the arbiter of the complex Kyoto findings? Who can compel the Americans to comply should they decide to stay out? No one, that's who!

Implementation and policing of Kyoto is analogous to crap shooting with a pair of Rubic's Cubes as dice and a panel of croupiers all speaking different languages as they fathom the results! Who will compute and imple

I think it was Goya who said: "The sleep of reason breeds monsters." Kyoto could well turn out to be an environmental Godzilla, also an unlikely scenario, set in Japan. Godzilla was big, powerful, brainless, clumsy, damaging, potentially fright ening but ultimately and laughably unconvincing. The Kyoto Accord, also born in Japan, is a most noble ideal.

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stone year. It marks Environ mental Science & Engineering Magazine's 15th birthday and 110 years of environmental journalism

in Canada. It also marks the 20th

anniversary of a historical research project I did to commemorate Water & Pollution Control Magazine's(W&PC) 90th birthday in 1983. W&PC's origins began in 1893, when The Canadian Engineer was launched as a magazine serving pro fessional engineers. The publication had several name changes over its lifespan. But even in its early days, the publication, first as a monthly and later as a weekly, had a profound interest in enviroiunental engineering. Some of the early environmental engineering giants were featured in the magazine or contributed to it.

The magazine published news on such engineering greats as Samuel and Thomas Keefer. Their biographies are well-recorded and it is worthy of note

Toronto's John Street pumping station, 1875. The site is now occupied by the SkyDome following relocation of the station, pumps and appurtenances designed by R.V Anderson Associates.

that Thomas Keefer was active in water

transportation engineering in the 1840s, railways in the 1850s, and then, in approximately 1853, was appointed chief engineer of the Montreal

fessional card in the publication. Thomas Coltrin Keefer was keenly aware of the need for engineering edu

sulting engineers. The magazine also carried articles

cation in Canada. He was instrumental

Waterworks with the task of construct

in introducing civil engineering at McGill University and became its first professor of engineering, in 1856, some 11 years before Confederation. He was a founding member and first president of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. This remarkable gen tleman died in 1915, in his 94th year. Appropriately a pumping station he designed in 1859 in Hamilton, Ontario, was designated a National Historical Monument on June 11, 1983, by the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. Keefer's engineering masterpiece is kept in mint condition by the Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology. Typical ofengineers ofthe day, both Keefers changed positions from employee to employer and accom plished much of their engineering work as employees. Many of these engineering works would have been carried out after approximately 1920, in whole or in part, by qualified con

what was almost certainly Canada's first significant consulting engineering company. By then, he had completed both waterworks and sewage treatment projects in 56 cities, from Halifax, N.S. to Victoria, B.C. Some of Chipman's published articles in the magazine covered such topics as London's Sewage System, Oakville Waterworks Auxiliary, and the Ontario Waterworks System. His pioneering work in environmental engineering is matched only by the devotion he gave to professional engineering associa tions. Willis Chipman undertook water and sewage projects across Canada

ing a public water supply for the city. The project was so well-executed that his services were soon at a premium for similar installations elsewhere in

the country. For some 25 years, Thomas Keefer was involved, often in a consulting capacity and sometimes as an employ ee, on waterworks projects for the cities of Toronto, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Quebec City, Ottawa, London, Halifax and Dartmouth. In 1872, he became chief engineer of the Ottawa Waterworks. Some Keefer

projects are mentioned in The Canadian Engineer, and he ran a proBy Steve Davey, Environmental Science &

Engineering Magazine

10 Environmental Science & Engineering, March 2003

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until he died; however, his firm did not survive its founders. But by then, other young consulting companies, sueh as E.A. James and Gore, Nasmith and Storrie, had begun to make their mark in Canadian history. E.A. James began in 1912 and, although it has had sever al name changes over the years, it remained a viable and expanding comcontinued overleaf...

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the old type of direct acting engine."

influence. It is common for writers to use

The article also described Heine

cathedrals and other architecturally advanced buildings as the mark of a great civilization. However, it was the sewers, waterworks and

safety boilers, which supplied steam to the Worthington pumps. In my opinion, if the world suffered a cataclysmic event, which wiped out

treatment

most of what mankind has learned and

schemes of the early pioneers that did much to rid the country of typhoid, paratyphoid and even cholera, which were frequent

built, reconstruction might be simpli fied if the survivors unearthed copies of The Canadian Engineer. Since the magazine covered all the engineering disciplines for decades after it was launched in 1893, the early issues con

visitors

tain a wealth of information.

wastewater

Canadian

households, with a dra matic effect on infant mortalities.

The North Toronto Wastewater Treatment Plant under construction in 1934.

the

September 1893 issue, E.R. Boulter, a survey or, is quoted as saying: "The cleansing of house drains is a matter

requiring the serious Canada Inc.

Gore, Nasmith & Storrie began a

attention of civil authorities." He

unbroken line, practising for years as

advised them to visit all occupied dwellings on each line of the sewer with all the necessary implements and

Gore & Storrie Limited, before becom

deodorants to clean the drains. This

ing part of CH2M HILL. In the earlier days, the magazine carried specifications and drawings of British battleships as well as technical

procedure was offered in response to complaints regarding odours from

little later and it, too, has served in an

articles on the coal-fired boilers of Montreal's waterworks. There were

reports of air pollution control devices even then, with advertisements urging readers to buy "the smoke eaters". Reports of the emerging interest in

sewer lines.

During the early years from 1893 to 1903, the magazine gave extensive coverage to openings and improve ments

of water

water, by fixing the plumbing so plen ty of air is discharged into the sewers along with the sewage, and by con structing the sewers in a way that the flow is rapid and that every inch of the drain has a thorough undulation of air through it. By doing so the process of bacterial sewage purification com-

and

1894 issue

describes

the technical highlights of

early issues. In those days, articles on Willis Chipman, and later the dynamic young Dr. Berry, were regular features of the publication. These men played not only a tremendous role in the discipline of civil engineering, but they also were very active in developing the profes sional associations. Willis Chipman was a founding member of the Ontario Association of Land Surveyors, the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and the Engineering Institute of Canada. Dr. Berry, too, although younger than Willis Chipman, was instrumental in the for

Worthington

To review the early issues of the magazine is to get a new appreciation of the term "Civil Engineering" because it is most apparent that the works and projects of the civil engi neer had, in truth, a profound civilizing

bacteria remove the filth from the

sewage systems. An

ozone were also carried in some of the

mation of APEO.

In a 1900 issue, for example, stories ranging from one of Count Zeppelin's early airships, to a sketch of Sir Sandford Fleming, the Canadian who invented the concept of international time zones, were published, as the world moved into the 20th century. Always concerned with sanitation, the same issue ran an article on purify ing sewage by bacteria. In it, the author claimed that it is necessary "to help the

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est is the high duty attachment which was

introduced by the Worthington Company eight years ago and enables

the

use

steam in a direct acting The late Pat Bourgeois of Quebec (L) and EC's Stan Mason (R)in Vancouver. Pat earlier had handed over the Presidential Chair of engine at a high rate of Office of FACE, now the Canadian Water & Wastewater Association. expansion with any form of flywheel engine. The principle mences immediately after the sewage is regarded by engineers as being one enters the pipes." of the greatest advances in steam prac It seems that some of the issues tice since the time of Watt ... it has faced by society in the early 20th cen been widely introduced in this conti tury are still with us today. A 1901 nent and in Europe for all kinds of story outlines one problem engineers pumping machinery and has shown a would have if the metric system were savings of from 40 to 50 percent over continued overleaf...

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Engineers, warned that systems had to be developed in Canada to cope with sludge removal since dilution was no longer a practical or safe method. Another article was written by a Toronto Water Works inspector who had been assigned to investigate an excessive use of water. He had discov

The late Dr. Albert Edward Berry is wheeled by Geoff Scott, the second Canadian President of the Water Environment Federation.

adopted. The author wrote that with the Imperial system of measurement, it was easy to compute the number of bricks a new building would require since bricks were three-quarters of a foot by one-quarter of a foot. If the same calculation was done in metric, the author claimed, it would be far too complicated.

The same year, an article by R.S. Lea, of the Canadian Society of Civil

ered, along with numerous major and minor leaks, that many people were filling up private ponds with city water and some industries were filling up their holding ponds from hydrants. In 1905,Toronto City Engineer R.H. Rust wrote an article in the magazine on using garbage for power. In 1907, Dr.

and was suited for handling the solids common to sewage treatment plants and lift stations. Mr. Denis Papin is credited with designing the first cen trifugal pump about 1703. Always involved with the industry it served, the magazine noted in 1905 that E.A. James had been appointed resident engineer for the Cold Water Section of the Toronto-Sudbury branch of the C.P.R. In 1909, when he was the town engineer for North Toronto, Mr. James wrote an article for the publica tion describing North Toronto's water supply and hypochlorite treatment. Dr. George G. Nasmith, Director of

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ods of sewage disposal without having any sound basis for his experiment."

In 1906, he commented on the lack

While the magazine reported and presented opinions, it also devoted a lot of space to construction announce ments, research findings and reviews. In 1905, a practical article appeared on thawing pipes using electricity, while another piece described the Gloucester sewage disposal works. An ongoing feature of each issue was a section entitled "Municipal works etc." This department gave short announce ments of new projects along with the amount of money involved and in some cases, the engineer who pro posed it. In 1905, the section announced a $125,000 water works system for Saskatoon, along with a $10,000 water works system for Aurora, Ontario, where ironically ES&E Magazine was launched eight

of proper sterilization in the Toronto Water Works System. "Now that Toronto is to have electrical energy at a reasonable price, there is no reason why one of these ozone sterilization plants should not form part of the city's water works system. It is worthwhile for the Mayor and the corporation to

decades later. In 1907, it announced that Willis Chipman had submitted a proposal for a water works and electri cal system for Estevan, Saskatchewan, at a cost of $67,000. The magazine also announced in 1906 that Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, was elected for membership to the

look into this matter," he said.

American Society of Civil Engineers.

The editorial staff of The Canadian

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"Municipalities everywhere are beginning to enforce regulations with regards to the smoke nuisance: and rightly so too, for the evidence is over whelming that the emissions of black smoke from boiler chimneys can be prevented without financial loss". Mr. Groves described the Meldrum

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She was believed to be the first woman

engineer. The headline on that particu lar announcement read: "One more

masculine stronghold invaded". Beginning in 1909, the magazine ran a section called the "Sanitary Review", which dealt with sewage and sewage disposal, water supply and purification. In 1912, an article in this section described a device developed by Electra Clear Water Co. of Cleveland, which purified water by passing it between electrified alu minum plates and then filtered it through crushed quartz. That year Willis Chipman wrote an article on "Progress in Canada in Biological Methods of Sewage Disposal During The Last 20 Years".

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into or near waterways. In 1913, the magazine began to fol low the development of what was to become known as the activated sludge process. That year Professor Gilbert J. Fowler announced the results of exper iments

made

the

only 293 feet. This translates into a drop of 0.57 feet per thousand feet of pipe, which meant the aqueduct had to be constructed with extreme accuracy in order to ensure that the elevation

This increase, as well as an increased standard of living and a corresponding growth of industry, was causing water supply costs to rise. In 1927, an

Manchester

Sewage Works in England. Iron salts were added to sewage inoculated with an organism found in old colliery workings and air was blown through, which produced "limpid sparkling and non-putrafactive effluent". In

gaining momentum in Canada. According to a 1919 article in the magazine, 20 percent of the population lived in cities in 1840. By 1919, this percentage had risen to 33 percent.

armouncement told that the Greater

Wirmipeg Water District wished to raise its rates from three to five cents

per thousand gallons, a 66 percent

1914, Messrs. Ardern and

increase.

Lockett reported that a process they had developed, produced "an entirely satisfactory effluent after a few hours'

In the early 1920s, the young Dr. Albert Edward Berry started to gain prominence in environmental circles. In 1928, an article by him on the value of waterworks laboratory tests was published in the magazine. In it he warned that "the operator can only be sure of the safety ofthe water his plant treats by doing sufficient laboratory

aeration". This became known as the

activated sludge process and is proba bly still the most important develop ment in sewage treatment. Messrs. Ardern and Lockett had a

large bottle full of sewage, through which air was blown for about five

tests." He added that "the more tests

weeks, resulting in the complete nitri fication of the sewage. The super

employed, the greater should be the assurance of the quality." A 1929 edi torial tragically emphasized Dr. Berry's message regarding the respon sibility for pure water after a Kingswell, Ontario, man successfully sued the municipality for the death of his wife from typhoid. Dr. Berry submitted articles to the magazine on a regular basis, ranging from sewage disposal in Canada to vegetable growth in water supplies. In 1940, the magazine, which had just changed its name to Water & Sewage, asked "who is the most widely known

natant water was decanted and an

equal amount of fresh sewage was added and air blown in, resulting in nitrification in much less time. The

The late Sid Dutton, when head of Proctor &

Redern's Wastewater Department, with George Crawford, then President of Gore & Storrie Ltd.

procedure was repeated many times, until there was enough activated sludge to inoculate fresh sewage in the proportion of one to four, or one to three, and an entirely satisfactory effluent was obtained after a few

hours' aeration. The experiment was then made in casks placed outside and air was distributed through porous tiles, and, after four hours blowing in contact with activated sludge, 90 per cent purification was effected, based on oxygen consumption and albumenoid ammonia or, after six hours, 92 percent, whilst the dissolved oxy gen absorbed by shaken effluent in five days at 65 degrees Fahr. was only 0.80 parts per 100,000 compared with two parts proposed under the British Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal report. It was during this time period that work began on the $13 million Winnipeg Aqueduct which was designed to carry 80 million gallons per day of water from Shoal Lake to the Winnipeg area, a distance of over 95 miles. The magazine gave regular coverage of the construction and of the problems encountered.

waterworks man?" It then stated: "The

answer is easy; Dr. Albert Edward Berry, Chief Engineer of the Ontario Department of Health, wins in a walk. Secretary of the Canadian section AWWA; founder and secretary of the Canadian Institute on Sewage and Dr. Kenneth Hare enjoyed an international repu tation in climate change. He ivas the first Director of the U of T's institute for Environ mental Studies.

drop was as near to the average as pos

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the first municipality supplied with water from the aqueduct on March 28, 1919.

difference

In 1917, the magazine noted that Henderson, Kentucky, became one of the first cities to incorporate a pressure type ultraviolet sterilizer which had a 3 million gallon per day capacity in its water treatment plant. By the early

between Winnipeg and Shoal Lake is

twenties, a social-economic shift was

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total

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need for sanitary landfill started to evolve. In 1949, the magazine pub

for their removal."

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ments of a Canadian public that was fast becoming environmentally aware. "Canada is in the midst of a major pro gram of activity in the sewage field. There is an increasing interest in this country in the prevention of stream pollution and the maintenance of the country's greatest natural resources, its water supplies. It is the engineer's responsibility to design and construct suitable sewage systems." The magazine changed its name from Canadian Municipal Utilities to

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Water supply was also a major con cern for military engineers during World War II who were responsible for meeting the huge water requirements of their respective armed forces. The headline on one wartime feature by Major Peter W. Rainier, officer respon sible for water supply, was "Water for Monty's Men - the exciting story ofthe indispensable part played by water supply in the triumph of the British 8th Army in North Africa." Interestingly, the late Sid Dutton, former head of Proctor and Redfern's environmental

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Army. In the late 1940s, early 1950s, issues such as industrial waste and the

meeting the huge water require ments of their respective armed forces.

"The disposal of refuse in landfills is gaining the increasing favour of the municipal engineers, many of whom are being pressed by the growing con sciousness of the taxpayers in the pub lic significance of refuge disposal. Open dumping, burning dumps and other assorted methods which give rise to nuisances from odours and smoke, provide harbourage and food for rats

Water & Pollution Control in the mid

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example, an editorial by Editor Tom Davey, in 1968, warned about global warming. Topics such as eutrophication, heavy metals, acid rain, and the mutagenic

funeral, called "Death of the Don

published in W&PC.The magazine also became a vigorous forum of debate on many con

River". But the new awareness caused

problems for the engineering fraterni ty. Engineering proposals, which earli er had been routinely rubber stamped by governments at all levels, now faced a barrage of questions by concerned and often irate citizens' groups before any of the projects could be imple mented. Many worthwhile projects were abandoned or delayed by this new sociological phenomenon. A larger, sometimes planetary viewpoint emerged as society realized that there were few pollution problems which operated in isolation from the rest of the ecosystems. W&PC responded to the new challenge with articles, which were written on a much

broader philosophical plane.

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1988, Tom and

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Steve Davey launched Environmental Science & Engine ering Magazine. The first issue, a mere 40 pages, with 9,000 copies printed, rolled off

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cle by Ontario Environment Minister Jim Bradley as he launched the Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abatement (MISA) program. The objective was the virtual elimination of persistent toxic substances entering the environment. It called for strict moni

toring and testing programs and resulted in a surge of spending in the environmental industry. Unfortunately, government emphasis on the MISA program was short-lived. Many analyt ical laboratories, which had geared up for the anticipated demand for their services, went out of business or aban

million in studies, the OWMC was abandoned, without ever treating as much as a handful of waste.

In the late 1980s, ES&E carried

articles on using PCB contaminated wastes as fuel for cement kilns. The

articles stressed that the rotary kilns were a good idea because they could harness the thermal properties of the wastes while making cement; that the PCBs had a long residence time in the flame, leading to almost total destruc

tion; and that there was a saving in valuable fuel used in conventional

incineration. However, public opinion was against the use of PCB wastes as fuel and this option was abandoned. Much of Canada's PCB wastes ulti

doned the environmental market.

mately were directed to the United

One key component of the Ontario government's plan to deal with toxic

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incineration facility and disposal site. Ultimately, after spending some $120

Leak detection from underground storage tanks also became an impor tant issue in the late 1980s. In the July 1991 issue of ES&E, an article by Richard Rush and Keith Metzer, of XCG Consultants, reported that there were approximately 70,000 retail gaso line storage tanks in Canada. Studies had shown that 20-25% of these were found to be or

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FEEDBACK Tom;

However, I and others argue that

RE: "Ontario Engineers Support Kyoto Accord" (ES&E Magazine, November 2002). I commend the Ontario Society of

Professional Engineers for supporting the Kyoto Accord. However, the com ment that engineers were the original environmentalists is inaccurate.

The

original

environmentalists

(persons concerned with protection of the environment) were those that applied scientific principles to the study of nature and discovered the existence of natural systems and described the factors that affect the

structure and function of these sys tems. The original environmentalists were biologists who sounded the alarm that human activities were affecting these systems and advocated for change. Some argue that the work of the biologist, Rachel Carson in the 1940s, 1950s and culminating in her book "Silent Spring" (1962) marked the beginning of modern environmentalism (advocacy for environmental pro tection).

modern environmentalism has its roots

Professional Engineers. 1 am very pleased with the success

in the works of early naturalists and

we have had on the SWDA and the

conservationists, such as John Muir (1838-1914) and the members that founded the Sierra Club in 1892, who

Sustainable Water and Sewage Systems Act. It reminds me ofsome of your writings about the demise of the professional in his/her influence on the laws of the land relating to environ ment.We have made the point to the government and to the judge that there are many cases in other Acts that require an engineer's signing off when public health and safety is involved why not for water/sewage works. Rambling here - did you know there is NO mention of Professional engineer

advocated for the establishment of

national parks in the U.S. to protect natural areas from development. Their advocacy was based in part on research by Charles Darwin (18091882), Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), and a growing number of other biologists in the late nineteenth century, whose works began to piece together the interrelationships of biological sys tems, and raise the idea of human

influences on natural systems. It wasn't until after the alarm was

sounded that engineers got involved to find solutions.

Don McCabe,P. Biol. Calgary,Alberta Tom

in the OWR Act or the OWP Act!

Also pleased to see the 10,000 members in our society - must be doing things right. Keep up your good work AND your health. Always looking forward to reading ES&E. Robert Goodings, P.Eng. ES&E welcomes comments and

Re: New Issue of The Voice

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Site Remediation

A Brownfield clean-up in a residential neighbourhood By Robert Fedy,Peter Gray,Ruth Barnes and James Witmer

The Ralgreen Community is a

residential neighbourhood in Kitchener, Ontario. In the late 1940s, prior to residential development, the owner of the lands entered into an agreement with the City of Kitchener to fill in a pond to gain additional farmland. From 1948 1950, the pond was used as a munici pal waste disposal site. The site was then re-graded and put back into agri cultural production. In the late 1960s, the property was sold to a developer, who serviced it for development as the Ralgreen community, with semi detached homes and townhouses.

Evidence of environmental impacts from waste disposal activities arose shortly after construction activities began. In 1996, a number of residents of Ralgreen Crescent notified the City about concerns of excessive building settlement, seepage of liquids into basements and indoor odours. In 1997, the issues raised by the residents - and the $65-million lawsuit they filed against the City - received national media coverage as the focus of a CBC Fifth Estate episode. After a series of environmental

investigations, the City reached a mediated settlement in the lawsuit that

included an agreement to undertake an enviromnental restoration process in accordance with the Ministry of Environment's "Guideline for Use at

and the waste disposal limits. A hydrogeological assessment of the shallow groundwater system was undertaken to identify groundwater quality and movement. Homes in the area were also structurally assessed. Results for soil quality determined that several chemical compounds were present at levels above the MOE Table

Contaminated Sites in Ontario"(MOE 1997 Guideline). Under this agree ment, the City retained Frontline Enviromnental as a remediation spe cialist and purchased a total of 27 homes; most of the affected homes were situated immediately over the for mer pond. Frontline's work on the Ralgreen Restoration Program included: • Delineation of the former pond and

the waste matrix, including petroleum hydrocarbons, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, and polynuclear aro matic hydrocarbons (PAHs). A soil excavation and separation/disposal program was initiated to manage approximately 70,000 m^ of impacted

waste;

materials.

• Characterization of the types of

A Residential/Parkland Criteria within

Groundwater in the study area was

waste;

located

• Determination of soil and groundwater quality characteristics; and • Assessment of geological and hydrogeological environment in the study

ground surface and easterly flowing. Groundwater impacts included tetrachloroethene, petroleum hydrocarbons and PAHs. Impacted groundwater was managed during the soil excavation and replacement program. There was no evidence of affected groundwater migrating from the source area. With waste layers reaching depths of 7.9 metres below ground surface and extending beneath homes and roadway, beyond the confines of the original pond. Frontline recommended

area.

Past studies were reviewed and

assessed for historical, geological and chemistry data. A drilling and soil sampling program was undertaken to delineate the limits of the former pond

within five

metres below

the demolition of 20 homes in order to clear the environmental work area for excavation and remediation. With site remediation activities

complete and a Record of Site Con dition submitted to the MOE, services have been re-installed for the new

dwelling units to be constructed and re-landscaped, thus revitalizing a com munity in the City of Kitchener.

Robert Fedy, F.Eng., Partner and Senior Engineer, Peter Gray, PGeo., Managing Partner and Senior Hydrogeologist, and Ruth Barnes, M.Sc., Environmental Geoscientist, are

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Guest Comment

The facts behind the"Zero AOX"goals In pulp and paper mills By Doug Christie,P. Eng., Process Engineer,Hornby Island, B.C.

Responding to the article "Pulp

Mill regulation threatened, says BC Law Association" published in the June 2002

issue of Environmental Science &

Engine-ering, I wrote complaining that it was a sad misrepresentation of the technology and the facts, and was pleased to be invited to respond. At issue is the "Zero AOX" regula tion, which was to have come into

effect in BC at the end of this year. It has been known for ten years that this goal was not possible, and would even tually have to be rescinded. Now that the inevitable is occurring, there is a chorus of complaint from environmen tal groups that the provincial govern ment - they stress Liberal government - is making a gift to industry. There has been no discussion of the feasibility or the desirability of achieving zero AOX; it is the process which is being attacked. The plain fact is that zero AOX in effluent is not possible. The only way in which a mill can meet this target is to shut down. The regulation was a political statement when it was put into place in 1992, knowing that 2003 was a long way off. The environment min ister of the day, whose expertise is in religion, admitted he had no idea how it would be accomplished, but he "had faith". This regulation was doomed the day it was proclaimed. What is AOX? Absorbable organic halides, in effect chlorinated organics

uble lignin, and reducing the X com ponent, oxidative chlorine compounds. Both of these have been done, with the result that AOX in BC mills now aver

government as only engineers and a chemist. My first thought on reading the panel report was to wonder who in the environmental groups was fit to make this judgement. My explicit request for the names and qualifications of their experts has gone unanswered.

ages 0.47 kg/t, a reduction of 93% in the last 15 years. Less than half of the remaining AOX is derived from the bleaching chemicals. The incentives to bring this about have been firstly process changes to eliminate TCDD and TCDF (tetrachloro dibenzyl dioxins and furans), and secondly the insistence of mainly the Alberta government on the absolute best technology for new mills

to be based on a snapshot of the tech nology in 1998. It lacks the perspective of those who have lived through the development of effluent regulations and bleaching technology for the last 30 years, and can distinguish between facts and advertising fluff disguised as

there in the late 1980s.

technical articles.

AOX as a goal has appealed prima rily to governments because it is a sim ple number and has a nicer ring than tetrachloro dibenzyl-p-dioxin. A implies progress and X implies sinister mystery. However both Environment Canada and the US EPA have declined to set an AOX standard on the basis

that it is not specific to any definable environmental problem. The basic arguments of the environ mental groups are that BC mills are backward in pollution prevention, that only a zero AOX regulation is holding their feet to the fire, that an attractive market for TCP pulp is being ignored and that zero AOX could be achieved

by TCP bleaching and/or full mill clo sure. They also criticise the make-up of the Review Panel appointed by the BC

Their technical information seems

The fact is that the newer mills and the recent rebuilds in BC and Alberta

represent, and to some degree define, the new world standard. The average performance of older mills is at a high standard. TCDD/P has been eliminat

ed, AOX, for what it is worth, is reduced 93%, and all mills have spill control and secondary treatment. Those who have been to court over

alleged infractions do not feel that the enforcement is lax.

Furthermore, we have in Vancouver

a large infrastructure of pulp mill expertise, operating, engineering, research and academic, and we do not need to be lectured by amateurs. As one who has been responsible for defining the process for a new mill overseas, I can say that information on

in solution. AOX is a broadband test

procedure. It is not a narrow chemical group with a definable environmental impact. Many foodstuffs, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals test positively for AOX. The human body generates AOX. Unbleached pulp mills produce AOX. Pristine streams contain AOX. What is the source of AOX in kraft effluent? A small amount comes from the trees themselves. Chloride

essential to life, as witness the histori cal role of salt in trade. The rest comes

from bleaching with chlorine com pounds. There are two ways to reduce AOX: reducing the O component, sol

Norske Canada s Elk Falls mill, in Campbell River, British Columbia.

30 Environmental Science & Engineering, March 2003

Guest Comment new technologies lands on your desk from all over the world. We have

applied the new mill design to new projects all over the world, from Indonesia to Brazil. I have even seen documentation for a new standard mill

design for China, which has the same specifications. TCP (totally chlorine free) bleach ing uses oxygen, peroxide, ozone, enzymes or peracetic acid, anything but chlorine or chlorine dioxide. TCP

was heavily promoted at one time in Sweden to meet a market in Germany which proclaimed itself ready to pay more for an inferior pulp which reduced pollution somewhere else. Worldwide production of TCP pulp peaked in 1998. The one mill in North America using the TCP process is unable to sell more than 5% of its

potential production of TCP. Nearly every mill in Canada has made TCP pulp, and stands ready to make TCP pulp, but there simply is no market. In any case it turns out this does not pro

that in the interests of protecting banks who financed the project, and the mill's customers, the mill must be defendable as having the best technol ogy. A survey of world class pulp mills led us to specify ECP bleaching. AOX was not a factor in defining the process. Best Available Technology was the basis.

Trashing the pulp industry for fun and profit is an Olympic sport in BC. Whether the distorted facts are being

presented innocently or knowingly is not clear. However, they should be flagged as distortions which are haz ardous to your political judgement. Who am I? A process engineer who has been involved in mill design and upgrading on three continents.(Pour, if Australia is a continent.) My pulp bleaching experience started in the Chemical Engineering laboratory at the University of Toronto in 1953 and has continued ever since. ■

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duce zero AOX in effluent.

The alternative technology is ECP, elemental chlorine free, where chlo rine dioxide is used, but not chlorine. It was in fact developed (largely in Canada) after TCP was first promoted, but became commercial much more

quickly. It is now the de facto world standard. There is no definable differ

ence in the environmental impact between the two processes, although there is some worry about the fate of incidental chemicals, such as chelating agents, used in TCP. Total recycle of bleach plant efflu ent is an appealing concept, but has many hazards in terms of corrosion and build-up of non-process chemi cals, such as potassium, chlorides and

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Canada,

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Environmental Protection Act (Health Canada, 2001).

Health Canada's two-year research project is half over, and calls for con crete regulatory action are likely as advoeates of the precautionary princi ple team up with planners of the "we must act even in uncertainty" mindset. But like other low-concentration, poor

ly understood environmental contami nation issues, managing the risk of PPCPs poses several challenges, that, if not handled carefully, could ulti

mately result in less safety and less environmental quality for Canadians. Policy challenges

PPCPs pose several policy chal lenges common to managing uncer tain, low-level environmental risks. First, there is the challenge of deter

mining whether or not PPCPs actually pose a risk to plant, animal, or human health. Though unpleasant to contem

plate, all of Earth's organisms evolved and spend their lives being exposed to very low concentrations of thousands of potentially harmful chemicals, both natural and artificial. Preventing all

such exposures would be impossible, even if society had unlimited resources to throw at the problem. Thus, one

question that must be answered with PPCPs is; "Does the dose make a poi son?" On this front, expert opinion

suggests that the dosages are too low to be considered risky, but some theories suggest that even very low exposure

ticals are intended to exert their effects at

levels could ultimately cause harm,

very low concentra

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Drinking Water without shifting resources away from the management of older, bigger, bet ter established risks. As public health researchers at Harvard University have shown, there is a real cost to be paid when management of lower-level,

would ensure their environmentally safe disposal, but such a system would also address only a small fraction of the problem. All of these approaches would address only a portion ofthe sources of

more uncertain risk is allowed to con

PPCP contamination, but each would

sume resources that could be used to

impose significant costs, draining resources away from the health-protec tive productive economy. Which takes us to the last question: Who should pay for PPCP management? Ideally, to create the right incentives for reducing pollution, the cost of remediation should rest on the polluter, but this straightforward approach has problems. Under this principle, con sumers would be responsible for the

address higher-level, more certain risks. As researchers Tammy Tengs and John D. Graham observe, the United

States spent about S21.4 (US) billion in 1994 on 185 life-saving interven tions, averting about 57,000 deaths. But spending that same amount of money, prioritized to produce maxi mum return on investment, would have saved an additional 60,000 people {Tengs and Graham, 1996). And one cannot forget that the sin gle biggest protector of safety, health, and environmental quality is societal and individual wealth {Bloom and Canning. 2000). Resources taken out of the productive economy and shifted into the regulatory economy are not risk-neutral. Indeed, by reducing eco nomic growth, regulatory diversion of resources constitutes a risk-increasing factor that may offset the perceived benefit of regulating a low-level risk such as PPCP exposure. Third, there is the challenge of fig uring out the proper point at which the problem can best be managed. Without eliminating the use of pharmaceuticals and chemicals altogether, one cannot prevent the release of PPCPs into the environment through the diverse set of waste streams discussed above. That

means that management of PPCP con tamination and exposure has to be han dled downstream, at the point of drink ing water and wastewater treatment. But even that would only be a par tial solution as water treatment does not account for PPCPs that find their

way into surface and subsurface sources through landfill leaching, ani mal feedlots, or pet wastes, which con tain veterinary PPCPs with similar characteristics to PPCPs of human ori

gin. Water purification at the point of consumption could remove PPCPs from the tap entirely, but this would not address potential impacts of PPCPs on wildlife, or on people who periodically consume the wildlife, such as hunters or fishers.

Additionally, one could envision a system in which all unused PPCPs were returned to pharmacies, which

added costs of downstream

populations, a phenomenon that clear ly puts those populations at greater risk from a broad range of adverse health consequences. Individuals who are highly risk-averse might choose to limit water intake to only purified sources, but this addresses only a small part of the overall policy challenge. Policymakers are likely to be pres sured to act to somehow ensure that PPCPs do not cause environmental

harm, or pose a hazard to the health of even sensitive individuals in the popu lation.

But in circumstances such as these,

where risks are poorly defined and interventions likely to be costly and only marginally effective, policymak

waste

ers would do well to consider the work

water remediation, and the costs allo cated according to use, perhaps col lected as a fee attached to drugs and personal care products. But this is problematic in terms of ability to pay,

of policy analyst Aaron Wildavsky, who showed that such high-uncertainty/low-level risk situations lend them

and fundamental ethics.

The basic ethic of the "polluter pays" principle presumes that the pol luter has a meaningful ability to change his or her behavior in response to the incentives, which is unlikely in the case of many medicines. Shifting the fee up the ladder of production to the producers of PPCPs wouldn't real ly circumvent this dilemma, as such costs will ultimately be passed onto the already cost-burdened pharmaceutical user as well, or, in the case of insured pharmaceuticals, onto the general tax payer.

The costs of additional drinking water or wastewater purification would ultimately be paid by consumers, but this diffuse cost recovery would not give incentives to some of the larger PPCP releasers (landfills and feedlots) to institute technological controls that might prevent the entry of PPCPs into the environment.

selves to watchfulness and research,

but not interceptive action {Wildavsky. 1991). They should pay particular attention to the work of Harvard's

Tammy Tengs and John Graham, who point out that prioritization is key to maximizing public safety {Tengs and Graham, 1996). And they should study the work of toxicologist Bruce Ames and others who point out that truly, it's the dose that makes the poison {Ames and Gold, 1998). Scrutiny of the work of these well-respected students of health, safety, and environmental qual ity would suggest that at present, the best response to the PPCP situation, as with many other environmental prob lems, is to watch and wait until one can see the whites of its eyes.

By Kenneth Green

Conclusion

PPCPs are a newly-discovered form of pollution that poses several difficult challenges to policymakers, but one is paramount: while the risk is known to be low-level and is still highly uncer

Kenneth Green, D. Env. (keng(g fraserinstitute.ca) is Chief Scientist

tain, remedies have known drawbacks

and Director of the Centre for Studies

that can easily make the public, or subpopulations, less well off. Such draw backs include the potential for divert ing resources from more certain risks of higher magnitudes, or for redueing after-tax income of the general popula tion, or already-cash-strapped sub-

in Risk, Regulation and Environment

34 Environmental Science & Engineering, March 2003

at The Eraser Institute. He most recent

ly wrote Global Warming: Under standing the Debate. This article first appeared in Fraser Forum (www. fraserinstitute.ca) and is reprinted here with permission.

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with the slow progress in cleaning up

Biermial Report to the two govern ments, the International Joint Com

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to restore this world-class ecosystem: cleaning up sediment contaminated

the Great Lakes in an editorial for the

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"In 1972 Canada and the United

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species, and improving the monitoring and reporting of ecosystem health,

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future generations. This Agreement demonstrates that two neighbouring nations could make a visionary com mitment. Progress has been made;

ecosystem, threaten human health, particularly that of children exposed in

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Water Pollution before remedial action is taken, even

while research showing subtle but per sistent human health injuries from eat ing contaminated fish, as well as impacts on fish, wildlife, and the ecosystem continue. Fifteen years of experience has proven that the current regulatory focus and funding is inade quate, and that the governments need to do far more.

and they are only one of 160 nonindigenous species now inhabiting the

"Fishability," it becomes clear that while the Great Lakes remain a good source of treatable drinking water,

system. A real risk remains that the

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"In light of the high risk, we believe our two national governments must urgently take more aggressive steps to prevent future alien species introduc tions, including new rules and pro grams to assure that "no ballast on board" ships do not contaminate our waters.

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Stormwater Management

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ment to estimate flows in

another. Similar challenges exist for stormwater quality treatment designers when using historical monitoring data to estimate future pollutant loads and per

of the pollutant measured during the test because a similar name might exist for a different pollutant or test proce dure. For example, sediment removal efficiency is highly dependent on sediment size. High removal efficiencies can occur at a test site dominated by coarse sediment. If these results

formance of stormwater best

are used to size a unit on a site

management practices (BMPs). Unfortunately, measured per formance (the efficiency of pol lutant removal) cannot be easily compared between different monitoring sites or used to size future systems.

with very fine sediment the design will fail because the same level of performance will not be achieved. Other

considerations

exist

such as the method of calculating performance and the meteorolog

the

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effectiveness of BMPs are often

monitoring data. To obtain approval in many jurisdictions,

performance data were collected. Before using performance data or sizing methods based on these performance data to design

structural BMPs must achieve

future BMPs, the conditions

sediment removal efficiency tar gets of 80% or more for sensitive sites (see references). When monitoring data are reviewed and

under which the measurements

Generalizations

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results show removal efficiencies

were less than 80%, designers and reviewers often incorrectly

similarities between test sites and

design sites and use some method for normalizing the variations,

conclude that the BMP is not

capable of achieving the efficiency tar

number of factors that need to be nor

such as a calibrated and validated com

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malized and considered when using test data to estimate future perform

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ance include:

measured efficiency. These factors can increase or decrease perceived per

Design - compare the expected per formance to the measured perform ance. How well was the measured per formance predicted?

References Calgary, City of, Stormwater Management c& Design Manual, Draft 2000, p 4-14, 2000. MDE, Maryland Department of Environment, Maryland Stormwater Design Manual Volumes I & II, September 1998 Review Draft, pi.13,

Consideration must be given to

formance.

One factor that is most

often ignored is the designed removal efficiency. If the BMP was designed to achieve an efficiency of 70%, a measured efficiency of less than 80% can still support the conclusion that the BMP is very effective. Conversely, in some instances where minimal effort

has been expended to obtain data of only poor quality, positive conclusions are erroneously drawn. For example, grab samples taken upstream and

Site and Land Use - consider the

land use at the test site compared to the design site. The performance of a unit tested in a public works yard or con struction site will differ from a shop ping mall parking lot, just as the hydrology and runoff coefficients/ characteristics will differ.

BMPs. To use field data as a tool for

Configuration - consider variations caused by hydraulic structures, flow confrols, upstream storage or pre-treatment, use of bypasses (internal or external), and the use of oil absorbents in the test unit. The design unit must have the same configuration as the test unit to have similar performance. Monitoring Protocol and Test

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1998.

MA DER Massachusetts Department

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Oil Spills

Russian roulette in the Gulf of Finland

The World Wildlife Fund, has

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the Prestige disaster," said Anita

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Wastewater

Sutton water pollution control plant underway

The design-build team at AWS

Engineers & Planners awarded Kenaidan Contracting Ltd., of Mississauga, with the civil

contract for the Sutton Water Pollution Control Plant in Ontario.

Sutton is located just south of Lake Simcoe in The Region of York, one of the fastest growing regions in Canada. Since the existing plant was at capaci ty with some operating limitations on the quality of effluent it could produce, it was necessary to construct an entire ly new WPCP using current technolo gies with better treatment capabilities. The Sutton WPCP is designed for a rated capacity of 3.4 MLd (0.9 MOD)

for a population of 7,500 people. The plant is designed to accommodate expansion for a population of 16,500 people. Kenaidan's contract began in May of 2002. The scope of work includes the excavation of5,000m^(6,500 cubic

Sequencing batch reactor(SBR) No. 2.

yards) of earth, 5,700m2 (61,300 square feet) offormwork, and 2,100m3

(2,700 cubic yards) of concrete includ ing the erection of a control building

(45m X 10m) to accommodate the plant's operating equipment. Kenaidan crews self-performed the concrete divisions of the work.

Every project has its particular challenge, and, at Sutton, the challenge was building a concrete structure on a narrow strip of land located between a huge pond to the south and a swamp to the north. Not only were the soil con ditions unsuitable for a well point sys tem but also the entire concrete struc

ture of tanks and chambers was below

the elevation of the pond surface. To do the excavation it was neces

sary to install a perimeter weeper sys tem with five pumping wells and, once down to founding grade, another weeper was required under the base slab to keep the water from welling up. As happens in construction, this activity took place during the wettest June and July we have seen in a long time. Kenaidan's site supervisor Fred Ogden was like a modern day Hans Christian Anderson character, holding back the water while getting the stmcture built, backfilled and enclosed before winter.

The project is now well underway with completion scheduled for June of 2003.

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Wastewater

Hydroxyl Systems awarded contract for Lakeview WWTP

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Aerial view of the Lakeview WWTP site.

Hydroxyl Systems will retrofit the activated sludge aeration basin dur ing the first stage of the Lakeview WWTP IFAS upgrade project.

The Region ofPeel,Ontario,has awarded a contract to Hydro xyl Systems Inc. for the supply of key equipment for the first phase of a major project at the 103

MGD Lakeview Wastewater Treatment

Plant. The overall project will upgrade the capacity of the plant to 118 MGD and enhance treatment performance.

Start-up of this project is scheduled for June 2003. Following a period of operation of the Hydroxyl-F^RAS process at Lakeview, the Regional Municipality of Peel intends to pro ceed with a full-scale hybrid retrofit of the entire wastewater treatment plant. The full-scale implementation of F^RAS technology at Lakeview would make it the largest facility utilizing the

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board can cut manufacturing input costs by reducing the need for more expensive vir gin gypsum in new wallboard. But can waste gypsum really be recycled? A Canadian company says yes. New West Gypsum Recycling Inc. (NWGR) of Vancouver, British Columbia, has built a thriving business recycling gypsum wallboard waste and providing this to manufacturers. It is then combined with virgin gypsum to make new wallboard containing up to 25 percent recycled content â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with no loss in quality. The company's process and technology is proprietary and an economic and value-added component of the gypsum wallboard industry. Having established three plants in the U.S. and Canada and having processed 1.7 million tonnes of waste gypsum wallboard over the past 17

years, the company's technical prowess and longevity in the marketplace is starting to catch the eye of manufactur ers, governments and environmental groups.

"We've had more inquiries about our technology from governmental groups and environmental interests worldwide in the last twelve months

than ever before," notes Tony McCamley, president of NWGR. The company was founded in 1985 after a regional government authority in British

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"Moisture content was a big chal lenge, which we solved with our patented grinding technology. The equipment has been designed to han dle high-moisture-content scrap. Moisture content and removing the impurities from the end products(gyp sum and paper) are the main sticking points in recycling gypsum," adds McCamley. The GVRD,charged with providing services such as garbage disposal, water and sewer for the cities and

Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) - banned the placement of gypsum

towns surrounding Vancouver, was

waste in its landfills.

its landfills. It was also trying to con tend with the leachate and hydrogen sulphide gas created when gypsum wallboard met with groundwater and moisture in the disposal sites. Studies were commissioned, and the findings became the catalyst for banning the dumping of gypsum waste into land

McCamley cites rapidly rising drywall waste disposal "tipping" fees and landfill issues as key drivers of the trend.

"While the price of drywall contin ues to decline, the total cost of drywall products to society - including the cost of disposing of the waste properly - continues to rise dra matically, especially in compari son to alternative wall systems," says McCamley. "Plus, there just isn't room in the landfills, and the

health concerns from leachate are

becoming more public, all issues that are potential problems for the global gypsum industry." A technically complex process The foundation of the NWGR

process is being able to process wet gypsum waste. Most wallboard scraps are not bone dry, having either come off the 'wet' end ofthe manufacturing process, been stored outside or left out to face the elements after the con

struction or renovation project has been completed. The critical factor in recycling is to reduce the moisture content, so that the recy cled gypsum will meet the requirements of wallboard manu facturers.

Once separated from the gypsum, the paper backing can be recycled by paper manufacturers into a wide variety of paper products.

To develop a process that would he reliable under many conditions, McCamley realized he needed a new technology and process. The result was innova tive machinery modified specifi cally for the processing of waste

44 Environmental Science & Engineering, March 2003

having a problem with limited space in

fills.

Once the ban was in place, McCamley and employees at NWGR

developed a process that pulverizes the gypsum core and removes nearly all the backing paper, leaving recycled granulated gypsum ready for use. But that was only one part of the solution. The recycled material still had to be accepted by manufacturers and incor porated back into the drywall manu facturing process. To test the recycled product, Vancouver gypsum board plant execu tives initiated a pilot program to deter mine the effects of mixing recycled and virgin gypsum, with NWGR sup plying the recycled material. They found that the NWGR product and process provided an efficient means of handling both plant production and market waste. The recycled product became an immediate, readily avail able source of raw material for use in

the manufacture of new drywall prod ucts. With the success of the pilot pro gram, NWGR received contracts to recycle tens of thousands of tons of scrap wallboard back to a number of manufacturers each year. Their quality concerns were addressed as well. "Our wallboard

plant has been producing all gypsum

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experimented with a variety of recy cling methods before developing a process that eventually created a prod

manufacturer at a price below that of virgin gjqjsum. The two major limiting factors affecting the economics of setting up a recycling system in a particular city or region are the per-tonne fees currently charged to take drywall scrap from a job site and the cost of transporting the waste gypsum to the recycling plant

uct that met the standards of local

versus the local landfill. Success

paper manufacturers. Recycling in major metropolitan areas: the Vancouver example The NWGR process is most effi cient in larger metropolitan areas where there are consistently large vol umes of gypsum wallboard waste and

depends on the recycling costs being

gypsum without detrimental effects on quality," noted Andreas Wicht of man ufacturer BPB Westroc, of Vancouver. Recycling of the wallboard paper pre sented another challenge. NWGR

where one or more wallboard manu

facturers are located within easy truck ing distance to receive the recycled product. NWGR's Vancouver-area recycling facility is located in the industrial sec tion of New Westminster (near the geographic centre of the 1.8 million people living in the Greater Vancouver area). This plant accepts waste materi al from as far away as 250 miles(about four hours' driving time) and operates 16 hours a day, six days a week. An estimated sixty trucks and semi-trail ers carrying construction scraps and manufacturer's waste arrive each day, and the plant processes approximately 70,000 tormes of gypsum wallboard

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processing speed, almost any accumu lated gypsum waste and/or any gyp sum waste stream could be recycled. After cleaning up the waste at one site,

gypsum used in the wallboard market is potentially available to be recycled. Based on the annual production esti

the unit can then be rotated to other

be equivalent to a range of 4 to 5 mil lion tonnes available to be recycled each year in the US alone.

facilities to repeat the process. The recycling potential: the US example It is estimated that the United States

Wheel loaders break up the drywall waste before it is processed.

Warehouse full of recycled gypsum.

and set up at any site. This product is most usefol at multi-material recycling facilities and wallboard manufacturing plants. The portable unit can process up to 25 tonnes of waste per hour. At this

produces 30 million tormes of drywall annually. According to NWGR's analy sis, 3 to 5 percent of the gypsum used in the wallboard manufacturing process emerges as waste at the wallboard plant. In construction and reno vation, when drywall is cut and placed into position, a further 10 to 12 percent ends up as scrap. This is not an insignificant amount. In house con struction, the industry rule of thumb is that wallboard scrap will equal one pound per square foot of floor area — or about one ton for the average house. Multiplying that figure by the number of houses built each year indicates the magnitude of scrap available just in the new home construction market.

Combining the above information, an estimated 13 to 17 percent of the

mate of 30 million tonnes, this would

Given that NWGR has found that

new drywall can incorporate more than 25 percent recycled gypsum, and that the total projected waste is approxi

mately 17 percent at best, it is obvious that all recyclable gypsum could be incorporated easily into the manufac ture of new wallboard. Conclusion

Of course, a certain amount of

waste gypsum will always be found outside the geographic range of the recycling plants and the lower disposal tipping fees found in some jurisdic tions may render recycling uneconom ical. Overall, however, based on NWGR's experience in the Vancouver, Seattle and Toronto markets, there is

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Climate Change

Ancient logbooks provide new insight on climate change

The five-hundred year old log

books of long-dead arctic explorers are helping to reveal the impact of climate change

on arctic sea ice, the World Wildlife Fund and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) announced on February 21.

Entries from the explorers' log books, which record where they encountered sea ice, as well as the weather they sailed through and even the whales they caught, have been used to produce historical sea-ice charts. These now form part of a series of 6,000 charts which run from the mid1500s up to the present day and will allow scientists to improve understand ing of climate variability and changes in north-west Europe and the Arctic over the last five hundred years. Changes in sea ice impact many species such as polar bears and seals, which hunt and breed on the ice. "Much has been made in recent

years of the connection between glob al warming and sea ice extent," said Lynn Rosentrater, WWF's Internat ional Arctic Programme climate change scientist. "But, prior to the development of satellites, few direct

observations of sea ice were made in

any systematic manner. This new dataset will make it easier to identify the impacts of climate change in the Arctic." Studies have shown that the extent

northeast sea route to China. The expe dition was the first of the delightfully named Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown to find

of sea ice, an indicator of climate vari

new trade routes with the rich Orient.

ability and change, has decreased in the Arctic Ocean in the past 30 years in line with global warming trends. Existing analysis of the new charts shows that this is a trend which goes back at least 150 years. The new

It was also the last. Although second-

archive will allow scientists to investi

gate variations in ice extent as far back as the 16th Century. The Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) Historical Ice Chart Archive - created by NPI and the Noi-wegian Meteorological Institute, and pub lished with funding from WWF - pro vide some of the oldest records of cli

mate change observations in existence, covering an area from Greenland in the west to Novaya Zemlya in the east from as early as 1553 to 2002. The earliest records used in the

archive come from Sir Hugh Willoughby, an Englishman with no nautical experience whatsoever, who set sail from London in 1553 to find a

in-command Richard Chancellor sur vived to establish new trade deals with

Russia, Willoughby's ship became trapped in sea ice near Murmansk and he and his crew perished. "This archive is one of the longest directly-observed records of any cli mate variable in existence, and repre sents the culmination of 15 years of work, initiated by renowned Nor wegian sea-ice scientist, Torgny Vinje," said Chad Dick, Director of the International Arctic Climate System Study Project Office at NPI. "But we are also indebted to the captains and sailors who braved the Arctic condi

tions hundreds of years ago and who kept such careful note of their observa tions. Because of their efforts, scien tists will be able to assess the current

retreat of sea ice in the light of varia tions over several centuries."

Contact: jwoolford@wwf.no.

Marie Meunier and Robert Landine newest members of ES&E's

technical advisory board Marie Meunier - graduated from the University of Montreal with a degree in Biological Sciences (1978) and from Laval University with a Masters degree in Biological Sciences (1982). Marie has been with John

Meunier since 1984, first as the Instrumentation Division

Manager, then as General Sales Manager (1996Marie Meunier 2000) and now as Marketing and Business Development Manager.

She has been President of AQTE (1991-92), the Quebec Waters Waste Water Association (now RESEAU environnement), member of the board of CWWA (1995-97) and WEE director (1998-2001).

Dr. Robert C. Landine - received

his Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering and his Master's Degree in Sanitary Engineering from the University of Saskatch ewan, Saskatoon, Canada, in 1960 and 1962, respectively. He went on to study in England under an Athlone Fellowship and received the Diploma of the Imperial College of Science and Technology In London in Public Health Engineering. After a

few years in the working world, he Dr. Robert C. Landine returned to obtain his Doctorate in Environmental Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in 1970. Dr. Landine has been actively involved with anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewaters for over twenty years and has seen his group design and/or build approximately a hundred anaerobic reactors.

March 2003, Environmental Science & Engineering 47

Automated Disinfection

Automation of disinfection process using ORP reduces chlorine by 32% By Max Rao,P.Eng., Indachem lnc.&

Christine Thibeauit,

City of Greater Sudbury

The City of Greater Sudbury, with a population of 155,000,

is located 390 kilometres north

of Toronto. At 3,627 square kilometres including water bodies, it is the largest municipality in Ontario. The main Sudbury Wastewater Treatment Plant is an 80,000 mVday high rate activated sludge facility, serving a community of over 85,000 residents and over 4,600 local busi nesses. A future plant expansion will see the plant capacity increase to 102,375 mVday. Chlorination is the final stage of the treatment train before the effluent is

discharged into Junction Creek, which is immediately upstream of Kelly Lake. In order to achieve an E-Coli

discharge limit set in the facility's Certificate of Approval, year-round chlorination is required. Manual con trol of chlorine feed to the contact

chamber produced good results with respect to E-Coli discharge compli ance.

However, it was hypothesized that chlorine was being overfed to ensure compliance since the manual chlorine feed adjustments could not keep up with the frequent changes in demand associated with a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The City Plants Engineer and staff at the Sudbury facility decided to investigate methods to automate chlorine feed to the con

tact chamber to get better control of the disinfection process. Using a gas chlorinator, chlorine gas is fed from tonne cylinders into a wetwell directly upstream of the con tact chamber.

Two 2150 m^ contact

chambers provide an average and min imum detention time of60 and 15 min

utes, respectively. In order to ensure disinfection to the required level, his toric measurements have shown that

maintaining a total chlorine residual between 0.5 and 1.0 mg/L at the outlet of the contact chamber, prior to dis-

Operator accesses the control system at the Sudbury Wastewater Treatment Plant(below). charge to Kelly Lake was adequate. Effluent samples were taken three times per week for total chlorine analy sis. Depending on the results meas ured, the output from the chlorinator was either increased, or decreased, to bring the chlorine residual number to within the acceptable range. Since manual adjustments were only per formed a few times per week, adjust ments were not able to account for

changes in oxidant demand that con tinually occured throughout the day. In order to ensure proper disinfection during peak demand, chlorine was overfed. This resulted in proper disin fection but high chlorine residuals dis charging into the receiving water body during periods of low demand. Flow Pacing The first attempt to automate the chlorination process was with flow pacing. A 4-20 mA signal from the plant flow meter was used to pace the output from the gas chlorinator to the effluent flow through the contact chamber. It was quickly determined that automatic chlorination control by flow pacing was inadequate and often resulted in chlorine overfeed and

underfeed. Although hydraulic loads can increase significantly, coliform

48 Environmental Science & Engineering, March 2003

levels do not increase proportionately. Conversely, low plant flows do not necessarily reflect low coliform levels. Amperometric Chlorine Analyzer An amperometric analyzer was installed to automatically measure the total chlorine residual in the effluent

exiting the contact chamber and adjust the chlorinator output to maintain a residual setpoint. Operators found that the sensing electrode fouled very quickly, which resulted in inaccurate residual readings, and required fre quent cleaning. Furthermore, the ana lyzers required a steady supply of reagents to function properly and were dependent on proper calibration proce dures being followed. Operators at the Sudbury facility found that the amper ometric analyzer was too maintenance

Automated Disinfection intensive to automate their disinfection process.

Research also indicated that chlo rine residual measurement is not a

good predictor of disinfection. Measuring residual only tells how much chlorine is left at a given point in

mately 100 feet from the chlorine injection point, measures the ORP (oxidant demand) of the effluent. The unique probe design, which comes with a two year warranty, incorporates a 99.999% pure platinum sensing elec trode and a porous Teflon liquid junc

time. Chlorine residual is not a meas

tion.

ure of the work value of the chlorine or

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a measure of the chlorine demand, which is continually changing. Controlling with residual measure ment can, therefore, result in variable E-Coli levels discharging to the envi

wastewater environment and measure

ronment.

High Resolution Redox(HRR) Research by Danish virologist Dr. Ebba Lund (^"Oxidation Inactivation of Poliovirus Copenhagen, 1963) indicated

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The Strantrol 890 combines plant flow and oxidative requirements to match chlorine feed rate to the chang ing oxidant demand in the system and to maintain a predetermined ORP setpoint (mV). The SloLogic control algorithm used by the Strantrol 890 was developed to mimic the actions of an operator. Utilizing the flow signal continued overleaf...

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Plant management decided to inves tigate the use of ORP as the control basis for the disinfection process. ORP (also referred to as redox) is a measurement of the electromotive

force (emf) generated when an oxidant is present in an aqueous solution. Measurable in millivolts (mV), the strength of this force is directly pro portional to the oxidative strength of the treated system. The higher the concentration of the oxidant, the high er the voltage. Conversely, the higher the concentration of the reductant (i.e. E-Coli, organic material, etc.), the lower the voltage. A redox sensing instrument, which detects this voltage,

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oxidant demand of the system. A Strantrol® Model 890 High Resolution Redox (HRR) controller, manufactured by USFilter/Stranco from Bradley, Illinois, was installed by Indachem Inc. at the Sudbury WWTP as part of a trial to determine if the unit could effectively automate the disin fection process. A heavy-duty sub mersible electrode assembly, installed within the contact chamber approxi

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Automated Disinfection to calculate changes in lag time between the chemical injection point and the sensor location, the controller looks at deviations from ORP setpoint at a 10:2:1 time ratio. For example, if

and then executes the change on the 10

the lag time is 10 minutes, the con

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change output and in which direction.

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contact chamber using the Strantrol 890 FIRR unit, the amount of chlorine

fed and ultimately discharged to Kelly Lake was significantly reduced. During the three and a half month trial period (May 15 to August 31, 2002), 4040 kg less chlorine was used com pared to the same period in 2001, a 32% decrease, adjusted for flow. Furthermore, the average chlorine residual measured over the same peri od was reduced from 0.82 mg/L to

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Invasive Species

Greater selenium threat accompanies exotic bivalve species

Biological invasions of estuar

column and thus shifted the communi

ies have become an increasing problem worldwide and are known to change community structure and function. For example, beginning in the mid-1980s, an invad ing species of the bivalve Potomocorbula amurensis became the

predominant benthic macroinvertebrate in San Francisco Bay. One conse quence of this has been the essential elimination by this voracious feeder of the standing stock of phytoplankton from the water column of Suisun Bay, in northern San Francisco Bay. A paper in Aquatic Toxicology shows another apparent result of the invasion: an increase in selenium con

centrations in the biota of the bay. Bivalves are frequently particularly prone to bioaccumulate selenium in their tissues. It is possible that P. amurensis may have a greater bioaccumulation ability than other bivalves, because it is an unusually voracious filter feeder and utilizes a variety of food sources. However, say the study's authors, direct comparison with other bivalve species in the Bay was difficult because P. amurensis has essentially displaced them all. However, they note that, whether or not it bioaccumulates selenium to a

greater extent than other bivalve species, the fact that P. amurensis has decimated the food web of the water

ty structure toward benthic organisms can in itself "enhance adverse effects

of selenium in the system, by expand ing the availability of a contaminated food supply." The highest concentrations of sele nium in P amurensis, say the study's authors, "exceed values that other studies have shown reduce growth or cause reproductive damage when ingested in experiments by birds and fish." Indeed, they exceed values at which "a high frequency of adverse effects is found" by two-fold. Earlier studies showed selenium concentra

tions in the livers of surf scoters (a species of diving duck) seven to four teen times higher than those from ducks at a reference site. Similar high levels were found in other benthivores, such as sturgeon and Dungeness crab. Predators that fed from the water col

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strated that growth of an intact Eastern Cottonwood plantation under increased COj (800 and 1200 parts per million) reduced ecosystem isoprene production by 21% and 41% respec tively. Biosphere 2's agriforest is a halfacre space that has been divided into three separate chambers for a multiyear study of Eastern Cottonwoods (Populus deltoides) response to three levels of CO2 (400, 800 and 1200 ppm).

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Biosphere 2 Commercial agriforests made up of trees including poplars, Eucalyptus and Acacia emit high levels of isoprene, a highly reactive chemical species believed to contribute heavily to ground-based ozone, Rosenstiel said. Ozone maintains its chemical struc ture whether it occurs miles above the

earth or at ground level, and can be "good" or "bad," depending on its loca tion in the atmosphere. "Good" ozone occurs naturally in the stratosphere, forming a layer that protects life on earth from the sun's harmful rays. In the lower atmosphere, ground-level ozone is considered "bad."

When inhaling ozone, the gas trav els throughout the respiratory tract, damaging the bronchioles and alveoli in the lungs, air sacs that are important for gas exchange. Repeated ozone exposure can inflame lung tissues and cause respiratory infections, according

mercial agriforest species emit high levels of isoprene, proliferation of agriforest plantations has significant

ty inside the Biosphere 2 Lab, suggests it may be possible to genetically engi neer environmentally friendly poplar trees by lessening their isoprene out

potential to increase regional ozone pollution and enhance the lifetime of methane, an important determinant of global climate." "As agriforests replace natural forests, the potential for producing hydrocarbons like isoprene will

put.

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increase. The news here is that we have discovered a situation in which elevat

ed CO2 concentrations work in a posi tive way to reduce pollution that is caused by iso prene. In the pres ence of sunlight and nitrogen oxide pollution from

to the US Environmental Protection

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Saskatchewan. Uranium City is north of Lake Athabasca, 30 miles south of the North West Territories border. The

city was developed and named as a result of a significant uranium deposit that was first explored in 1946. At one point, the highway crosses the Fredette River. The wood bridge deck and abutments that had been in

service some 40 years were in serious distress. The North abutment was slid

ing to the south and the deck required complete replacement. Ground access

Both the steel arch and the headwall components were light in weight compared to alternative solutions. struction equipment, such as pile driv ers, would need to remain on site for twelve months. This requirement made that option prohibitively expensive. The Saskatoon branch of Armtec

Construction Products was approached regarding an alternative solution. The company's Jim McGeary was invited to visit the site, along with Department of Highways personnel to discuss pos sible corrugated steel pipe solutions. Due to environmental and hydraulic concerns, a full periphery corrugated steel structure was ruled out.

Following a comprehensive site meeting, it was determined that a sin gle radius arch manufactured from structural plate corrugated steel pipe seated on footings would be a viable solution. Existing three-foot square concrete pilasters that capped wooden piles would serve as the footings. A Geoweb® retaining wall rein forced with T C Mirafi uni-axial poly ester geogrids would be employed for the headwalls.

Project nearing completion.

to Uranium City is limited and very expensive, as there are no permanent roads linking the city with the rest of Canada. Ice roads are available during winter, or materials may be hauled via barge in the early summer. A number of replacement options were considered for the bridge. A con ventional girder-on-abutment bridge would have required that heavy con

Tenders were called requesting the supply and installation of a 5180 mm span structural plate arch, mounted to the existing pilasters, and associated retaining walls. Normally a supplier, Armtec chose to bid the project as a contractor. The scope included: • Demolition, detours, temporary crossing and environmental protection. • Supply and assembly of the arch. • Supply and installation of the retain ing walls. • Backfilling and compaction of the

54 Environmental Sdence & Engineering, March 2003

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the existing bridge started the follow ing June. The project was completed in early August, 2001. The success of this project was due to a number of factors. Two of those

factors stood out in particular. Both the steel arch and the headwall compo nents were light in weight compared to alternative solutions. The arch was

shipped as a series of nested plates, while the cellular Geoweb® fascia

material was shipped in a collapsed and folded form on pallets. The geogrid was provided in roll form. The compact shipping volume, and the rel atively low weight of the primary bridge and wall components, translat ed into significant savings in the cost of freight. Both the corrugated steel arch and the geocell/geogrid retaining walls were constructed using simple con struction techniques. This feature allowed local labour, inexperienced with these products, to complete the project on time and under budget with out the use of large, expensive and spe cialised construction equipment. Circle reply card No. 162

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Product and Service Showcase Chemical tank cleaning

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The JetMix Vortex Mixing System can be used in biosolids storage where solids suspension is important. Benefits of using the JetMix system include: Intermittent operation saves 60-90% in power consumption; expen sive tank cleanout and scheduled main

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Portable Suspended Solids Analyzer

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Environmental NEWS

Paper mill company fined $30,000 for failing to comply with water regulations

Protection Act.

Interlake Acquisition Corporation Ltd.

Three of these charges relate to the failure to report test results to the Ministry of the Environment indicat ing that process effluents from the plant had been acutely lethal to rain

has been fined $30,000 after pleading

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guilty to six charges of failing to com ply with Ontario's Municipal and

paper sector. Interlake operates a fine paper mill located in St. Catharines. The company was fined $5,000 for

Two other charges related to the failure to control the quality of the company's process effluent to avoid such acute lethality. The final count related to the failure to file a quarterly report on effluent quality within the prescribed time.

each of six counts under Regulation 760/93, made under the Environmental

February 21, 2000 and May 28, 2001.

Industrial Strategy for Abatement (MISA) Regulation for the pulp and

These offences occurred between

Township and chief operator fined for water quality reporting offence The Ontario Township of SmithEnnismore-Lakefield, and chief opera

tor Christopher Norman, have been fined a total of $8,100, after pleading

guilty to failing to meet a reporting requirement of Ontario's Drinking Water Protection Regulation 459/00. The Court heard that the Township failed to notify the Ministry of the Environment and the Medical Officer

of Health of test results indicating low chlorine residual levels in the water

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Environmental NEWS found in at least 38 states, and is rated

by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Category 1 pesticide with "extremely high acute toxicity." The results of this work suggest these novel strains of microorganisms are a valuable source of endosulfan

degrading enzymes and may be used

Process turns

wastewater into H2 fuel Penn State environmental engineers have shown that wastewater from a

confectioner, apple processor, and potato chip maker can produce hydro gen gas worth (US)$80,000 a year, or more.

for the detoxification of endosulfan in

contaminated soils, wastedumps, water bodies, industrial effluents and unused or expired stockpiles of the pesticide. BC animal waste firm fined for odours An Okanagan animal waste processor

In addition to hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel and industrial feed

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has been ordered to pay a total of $46,000 after pleading guilty to a pol lution-related charge stemming from its operation near Armstrong, BC. McLeods By-Products was fined $1,000, and ordered to pay $39,000 to

which intensified the odours. The

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Environmental NEWS BC expands its oil

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the Water, Land and Air Protection Minister Joyce Murray. Product stew

British Columbia's lubricating oil recycling program is being expanded to include used oil filters and empty oil containers, which will protect the envi

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Environmental NEWS

Environmental charges laid against the City of Edmonton The City ofEdmonton faces nine envi

ronmental charges stemming from the release of polychlorinated biphenyls

tivity to pesticides. The World Wildlife Fund had also

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Environmental NEWS The WWF and

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ADI-SBR technology In September 2002, the Foshan Hua Feng Paper Co. in Foshan, Guandong Province, signed a contract with ADl Systems Inc. for an ADI-SBR (sequen cing batch reactor system). This recy cle paper mill has an existing primary treatment system but required a sec ondary treatment system to meet the following final effluent limits:

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