Canadian regional district adds residuals treatment to wastewater process

Maple Reinders, an engineering construction company that specializes in industrial, commercial, institutional, civil and environmental construction projects headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, has announced that Hartland Resource Management Group (HRMG), a special purpose company of which Maple Reinders is a partner, has been named preferred proponent for the Capital Regional District (CRD) Residuals Treatment Facility in Victoria, British Columbia.

The project will be delivered under a design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) public-private partnership (P3) model, with a 20-year operate and maintain period. The facility will incorporate the very latest and most reliable processes for stabilizing and drying biosolids, Maple Reinders says. It comes as the result of a rigorous evaluation process led by the CRD and represents its final step in attaining advanced wastewater treatment.

The CRD Residuals Treatment Facility will treat residual solids from the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in Victoria and turn them into Class A biosolids, a byproduct suitable for beneficial reuse, including as a source of renewable energy.

"Maple Reinders has been following the development of the CRD's wastewater treatment strategy and is particularly enthused with this opportunity to play a role in its further realization,” Reuben Scholtens, Maple Reinders' director of infrastructure development, says. "We are Canada's most experienced water/wastewater contractor and the CRD Residuals Treatment Facility represents a major achievement for us and is our fourth environmental DBFOM P3 project in as many years. As the established national leader in this space, we will continue to focus on bringing value to municipalities through the shared risk approach enabled by the alternative project delivery model."

The Residuals Treatment Facility is part of the CRD's larger Wastewater Treatment Project and is being built to meet both the federal and provincial governments' Dec. 31, 2020, requirement for secondary wastewater treatment. HRMG plans to start construction in the spring of 2018, with the project slated for completion at the end of 2020.