As municipalities across Canada and around the world face ever-stricter wastewater treatment standards, an Ottawa Valley firm with big international expansion plans is seeing demand grow for its technology that helps customers retrofit and upgrade their existing facilities.
Renfrew-based Bishop Water Technologies sells a variety of water and wastewater treatment solutions including its BioCord Reactors, which remove nutrients from water by allowing symbiotic layers of different bacteria to develop on densely arranged loops of polymer fibres – mirroring the process that occurs in nature.
It’s a solution that can extend the life of existing wastewater treatment infrastructure with a relatively low capital investment. That makes it particularly appealing to municipalities such as The Nation east of Ottawa, which avoided the costly expense of constructing a new mechanical treatment plant by installing BioCord Reactors in its current lagoon system in Limoges.