June 2013 - Water Market Insights 54

Municipalities in Canada and the U.S. will construct new sewage treatment plants to supply a growing population. They will also replace and upgrade existing facilities. These projects are tracked biweekly in the McIlvaine North America Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities and People. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Sewage Treatment	U.S mgd x 1,000			Canada mgd x 1,000
Treatment Type	2014	Increase	2015	2014	Increase	2015
Transport	44	-	44	4.2	0.1	4.3
Primary	41	1	42	3.2	0.1	3.3
Secondary	39	1	40	2.5	0.1	2.6

Even though the U.S. capacity will increase by only the equivalent of twenty 50 mgd secondary treatment plants, there are hundreds of projects under way at the 4000 existing plants with more than 1 mgd of capacity and many more projects underway at the 12,000 smaller plants. This results in more than 1,900 active projects. This includes a number of membrane bioreactor systems which make small remote plants economically and environmentally attractive. Canada has a much smaller number of projects in planning and construction. However, there is substantial activity in Western Canada due to the expansion of energy related activities.

Each project is tracked on a biweekly basis. Information includes project size, timing, architect engineer and contacts at the municipality and A/E.

There is extensive contamination of water and soil throughout Asia. Remediation efforts are underway. However, in some countries the rate of new contamination is still exceeding the remediation efforts. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Site Remediation and Emergency Response Newsletter. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

China is one country which is at least pursuing a clean-up effort. The Ministry of Environmental Protection has outlined a plan for China to cut heavy metal pollution in key areas 15 percent by 2015. The plan identifies fourteen provinces and regions as major monitoring targets, along with 4,452 companies, including mines, smelters and battery manufacturers. Local officials have been made accountable for the reduction targets.

With a shortage of land for development in China’s cities, there is an urgent need to clean up brownfields sites, remediation. Contaminated brownfields are impeding urban development. Large industrial enterprises are being moved outside of cities, leaving behind highly polluted sites. Examples of the relocation of industrial enterprises from major Chinese cities include:

The most commonly used remediation approach is excavation followed by ex-situ treatment, such as disposal of contaminated soil in a landfill or incineration in a cement kiln. In-situ remediation technologies are being developed.

Vietnam has the additional challenge of cleaning up the contamination from decades long warfare. During the Vietnam War (1962-71) the U.S. military dumped an estimated 75 million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides on approximately one quarter of the territory of former South Vietnam. Agent Orange was discovered to be contaminated with 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, an extremely toxic dioxin compound. The Da Nang Airport is a dioxin hotspot because of the highly contaminated soil and sediment discovered there. Tetra Tech of Pasadena, California is carrying out a contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to remediate the Da Nang Airport site at a cost of $84 million, using in-pile thermal desorption (IPTD) technology. IPTD has been found to be the most effective method to date to destroy dioxin. Tetra Tech’s work includes construction of the IPTD treatment structure and excavation, transport and placement within the structure of dioxin-contaminated sediment and soil.

Pakistan is one of a number of Asian countries which is not curbing its soil and water contamination. One study notes that of 6,634 registered industries, 1,228 are considered highly polluting. Manufacturers of textiles, leather, food, ceramics, steel, oil refineries and oils, pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries in Lahore, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan, Hyderabad and Rawalpindi are contributing to soil and water contamination. North Korea is the worst offender in the region.

§ Court of Appeals Maintains Decision stopping 600 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Subic

§ Czech Government still supports Extension of Temelín Nuclear Power Plant

On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for non-subscribers.

	2013
DATE	SUBJECT
June 13	Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel Feed, Metering and Combustion in Boilers	Power
June 20	Dry Sorbent Injection and Material Handling for APC	Power
June 27	Power Generation Forecast for Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables	Market Intelligence
July 11	New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control	Power
July 18	Measurement and Control of HCl	Power
July 25	GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement	Power
August 1	Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards	Power
August 8	Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation	Power
August 15	Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater	Power
August 22	Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology	Power
August 29	Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications	Power
Sept. 5	Fabric Selection for Particulate Control	Power
Sept. 19	Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines	Power
Sept. 26	Multi-Pollutant Control Technology	Power

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