Biological Treatment System
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Oland Brewery Will Improve Waste Water Quality and Reduce Energy Costs with $13 Million Biological Treatment Plant
The Agricola Street brewery, owned byLabatt Breweries of Canada, a division ofAnheuser-Busch InBev, is breaking ground this weekend on a biological treatment system that will improve the quality of its waste water and reduce energy costs.
"The catalyst was we were facing a significant increase in our extra-strength waste water surcharge," Labatt spokesman Wade Keller said in an interview Thursday.
Oland paid a $200,000 a year surcharge to Halifax Water before a 2013 rate increase and was facing a $600,000 surcharge bill in 2016, Keller said.
Even if the company paid the surcharge to the utility, its waste water would only get the primary treatment Halifax Water provides and not the secondary treatment the brewery's waste water requires, he said.
"We'd be paying the fee but not improving the environment. This project will improve the quality of our effluent flowing into the city system."
The company considered several options, including trucking its waste water elsewhere, before deciding to invest in its own treatment system, Keller said.
"We only had one option — build the treatment plant or not operate."
Oland isn't building the treatment system to save money, noting it would take 21 years, at an annual surcharge payment of $600,000, to cover the costs of building it, he said.
"It's doing the right thing and improving the quality of our waste water," he said.
Keller called the investment an endorsement of one of Labatt's smaller breweries and its staff.
The treatment system contract was awarded toADI Systems Inc.of New Brunswick after a competitive process that attracted attention from around the world.
"ADI Systems Inc., anADI Group Inc.company, has been offering waste-water treatment, anaerobic digestion, and biogas treatment solutions to industrial customers for over 30 years," Scott Christian, ADI's vice-president of business development, said in a news release.
"We are proud to have been chosen to design and build this project."
Stantec Consulting of Dartmouth is providing project development approval, environmental permitting and engineering support.
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