Municipal Wastewater Treatment

Services & Solutions

Veolia offers expertise in municipal wastewater treatment, whether the challenge relates to scarce water resources, health concerns, or meeting stringent environmental regulations.

Veolia Water Technologies is consistently developing innovative and sustainable solutions to recover and optimize useful resources. Our robust, efficient and resilient technologies have transformed vital resources into clean water, clean energy and valuable end products.

 

It's not wastewater. It's resource water.

Veolia Water Technologies is committed to resourcing the world by designing technologies that assist in resource recovery and water reuse. Our robust, cost-effective and compact technologies are suitable not only for new plants, but also for upgrades at aging existing plants. With growing demographics and changing regulations, our solutions are able to fit in existing spaces with no need for expansion and can be incorporated to existing processes.

 

 

Municipal Wastewater Treatment Capabilities

 

Efficient Pretreatment

  • Versatile coarse and fine screening equipment
  • Advanced grit removal performances with higher capture of  fine particles

Stormwater Management

  • A wide range of sustainable, efficient and high quality solutions

Smart Lagoon Upgrades

  • Total solutions to leverage existing lagoons and respect regulations
  • Robust, efficient, compact with minimum operation requirements
  • Flexible and suitable for cold weather (0.5C)

Process Intensification 

  • Increasing capacity for aging WWTP while being compliant to environmental regulations
  • Fitting in existing facilities, no need for physical expansion 

Leachate Treatment 

  • Treating leachate to protect the environment
  • Designing systems that use both conventional and proprietary technologies to meet our clients’ needs with cost-effective and sustainable solutions

Nutrient Removal

  • Filtration in a small footprint
  • High rate clarification
  • Activated sludge treatment
  • Mainstream and sidestream deammonification
  • Biological media based solutions
  • Hollow fiber and flat plate membrane filtration
  • Biologically aerated filteration

Increased Wet Weather Capacity

  • Enhance biological BOD removal
  • Stormwater flow management
  • Treatment for CSO and SSO 
  • Compliance with secondary treatment standards  

Primary Treatment

  • Filtration for carbon redirection and bio-methane production in anaerobic digestion
  • CSO/SSO treatment
  • Effluent polishing

Package Plants

  • Pre-engineered high rate clarification
  • Customized biological solution in a standardized package
  • Turnkey solutions

 Municipal Wastewater Treatment Technologies

 

Hydrotech Discfilter provides filtration in a small footprint. By employing woven cloth filter media installed on multiple discs, and utilizing an inside-out flow pattern, this versatile filter is appropriate for a variety of applications including tertiary wastewater filtration, effluent polishing, wastewater reuse and reclamation, Phosphorus removal, membrane pre-treatment, and stormwater treatment.

Hydrotech Drumfilter provides an effective filtration system for lower flows or higher solids loading conditions. The drumfilter employs woven cloth filter media installed on the periphery of the drum, and utilizes an inside-out flow pattern. This solution is ideal for effluent polishing and phosphorus removal at small plants. It is also highly effective for primary treatment or wet weather filtration.

Hydrotech Primary Filtration provides several advantages compared with conventional primary treatment and can also serve as a vital resource recovery tool for carbon redirection and bio-methane production in anaerobic digestion. Hydrotech can operate as a dual use filter, providing CSO treatment or SSO treatment while also being available for routine use for effluent polishing. 

The Dusenflo® gravity filter offers a unique, economical, adaptable and highly effective potable water filtration system that will provide consistent high quality, crystal clear potable water. From basic manual controls to the most sophisticated programmable logic controllers, Veolia provides the appropriate controls for your system.

Escalator™ is the endless mobile belt type, using multiple panels with holes. It gives highly efficient fine screening in any direction. Structural shelf on perforated panels lifts larger unmattable solids. Panels are carried on heavy duty chains. The self-adjusting system of the rotating brush provides an annual average capture rate increase of at least 20% resulting in a reduction of Work Round costs

ACTIFLO® for Wastewater Treatment is a high rate clarification process that is a proven, compact, and robust wastewater clarification system. Actiflo is an established small footprint clarifier that can be used at various stages of wastewater treatment including: primary treatment, wet weather treatment (CSO and SSO), high rate secondary clarification, and tertiary treatment for suspended solids removal, phosphorus removal and metals removal.

BIOACTIFLO for Wet Weather Treatment is a high rate biological clarification process for enhancing biological BOD removal. In a similar nature of ACTIFLO, both processes are designed to help with stormwater flow management and aid in peak weather wastewater treatment for CSO and SSO facilities. If diverting excess flow is not an option, or the TSS and particulate BOD removal with ACTIFLO® alone is not enough, BIOACTIFLO combines a biological solids contact tank with high rate wastewater treatment to improve soluble BOD removal. This ensures compliance with secondary treatment standards during an excess wet weather event. 

AnoxKaldnes™ is the global leader in Moving Bed Bioreactor (MBBR) and Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) technologies with more than 1000 references worldwide. K5 media is used to collect biofilm, reducing required footprint and allowing for future facility expansion without additional construction.

LagoonGuard has long been known for its consistent ammonia removal. Built upon the MBBR moving bed biofilm reactor platform, LagoonGuard provides robust nitrification in concert with the site’s existing lagoons. Now, LagoonGuard has just become simpler for small and medium-sized lagoon systems required to meet ammonia limits.

ANITA™ Mox is a robust, single-stage nitrogen and ammonia removal process with low carbon footprint. This activated sludge process is based on the MBBR or IFAS platform utilizing K5 media to cultivate anammox enriched biomass for mainstream and sidestream deammonification applications. The ANITA™ Mox process is specially developed for treatment of streams highly loaded in ammonia, such as effluents from anaerobic treatment, drying condensates, centrates, industrial wastewaters, and landfill leachates.

BIOSTYR® is a biological aerated filter ( BAF ) that combines biological treatment and tertiary filtration into one compact biological filter system. BIOSTYR DUO adds a second media layer for increased carbon, solids and nitrogen loading capabilities. With over 160 installations throughout the world, BIOSTYR is proven to be an exceptional technology for BOD removal, nitrification, denitrification and solids removal, with improved energy efficiency and 20% of the footprint of conventional activated sludge technologies.

NEOSEP® is a Membrane Bioreactor ( MBR ) system that offers the smallest footprint and lowest energy use on the market today with the incorporation of the FibrePlate™ membrane. FibrePlate™ is a hybrid of hollow fiber and flat plate technologies that retains the strengths while eliminating the weaknesses of conventional MBR membrane technologies. The NEOSEP membrane bioreactor can provide BOD removal, nitrification, denitrification, and enhanced phosphorus removal in many applications including industrial and municipal water reuse.

Phased Isolation Technology is a type of continuous flow activated sludge process, used in our Bio-Denitro™ Oxidation Ditch system, wherein one or more reactors alternate between oxic and anoxic phases. Alternating phases are controlled by a timed sequence or online nutrient monitoring. These systems offer very efficient enhanced nutrient removal without multiple reactor zones or MLSS recycle loops. 

Onsite Biological Solutions are packaged biological treatment solutions, including Ecosim rotating MBBR and Ecodisk (Filter, M & DL). These compact biological wastewater treatment plants have been utilized worldwide for over 20 years; providing small and medium sized solutions that integrate easily into the existing landscape with minimal odor.

Tertiary UF is a modern and elegant way to insure optimum TSS removal and Phosphorous removal after any type of Activated Sludge process’ Secondary Clarification step. The Tertiary UF receives the coagulated clarified water to perform a superior filtration step. This approach is favored on water reuse solutions where very high solids removal is required to recirculate the treated water for further use.

 

Municipal Wastewater Treatment Expertise

 

Actiflo technology helps achieve low phosphorus levels

City of Bristol, CT set out to reduce phosphorus effluent loads from their Water Pollution Control Facility. Given the high level of phosphorus removal needed, ballasted clarification was the chosen technology and four manufacturer’s were considered and evaluated.

 

 

 

 

Simple Sidestream Start Up

The sidestream process is designed to reduce the impact of nitrogen load returned back to the mainstream treatment process and ensure that the plant meets the stringent discharge TN limit of 3 mg/L.

 

 

 

 

How to get that simple retrofit?

The City of Camas, WA WWTP was faced with replacing their existing pile cloth media disk filters in the same footprint with an option that is easier to clean and maintain.

 

 

 

 

 

How the health of the Long Island Sound was improved with nutrient removal?

New SPDES limits issued in 2005 and a negotiated Order-of-Consent would require an upgrade to the New Rochelle WWTP to remove nitrogen from its discharge. On average, the mass-based nitrogen requirement would require the facility to meet a TN discharge of 4.0 mg/L or less at design flow. BIOSTYR® BAF Improves Health of the Long Island Sound with Nutrient Removal.

 

 

How to Reduce Total Nitrogen Levels

The AnoxKaldnes Hybas™ process has the advantage of accepting a significant combined sewer overflow (CSO) while maintaining a nitrifying biomass and eliminating the need to construct new aeration basins on a constrained site.

 

 

 

 

A 0.63 MGD wastewater facility in North Carolina reduced its effluent TN load by 76% following an upgrade of the system with mechanical mixing and an enhanced control system.

FAQ's

Which Municipal Wastewater Treatment process is used for Nutrient Removal?

Which Municipal Wastewater Treatment process is used for Nutrient Removal?  

ACTIFLO® for Wastewater Treatment is a high rate clarification process that is a proven, compact, and robust wastewater clarification system for tertiary treatment for suspended solids removal, phosphorus removal, and metals removal.

Hydrotech Discfilter provides filtration in a small footprint with woven cloth filter media installed on multiple discs, and utilizing an inside-out flow pattern, this versatile filter is appropriate for a variety of applications including tertiary wastewater filtration and Phosphorus removal.

 Bio-Denitro Oxidation Ditch system has one or more reactors that alternate between oxic and anoxic phases offering very efficient enhanced nutrient removal without multiple reactor zones or MLSS recycle loops.

ANITA™ Mox is a robust, single-stage nitrogen and ammonia removal process with low carbon footprint. This activated sludge process is based on the MBBR or IFAS platform utilizing K5 media to cultivate anammox enriched biomass for mainstream and sidestream deammonification applications.

BIOSTYR® is a biological aerated filter ( BAF ) that combines biological treatment and tertiary filtration into one compact biological filter system and is proven to be an exceptional technology for BOD removal, nitrification, denitrification and solids removal.

AnoxKaldnes Hybas™ is an IFAS process in which moving AnoxK™ 5 media is mixed into an activated sludge environment. The result is both fixed-film and suspended growth biomass working together and lending the strengths of each to the hybrid process, excellent for retrofitting existing activated sludge plants to improve ammonia and nitrogen removal.

How does wet weather affect municipal wastewater treatment?

How does wet weather affect municipal wastewater treatment?

In periods of heavy rainfall, water flows entering a treatment plant may may exceed its full wet weather capacity thereby preventing it from attaining the discharge quality standards required by local legislation. BIOACTIFLO™ has been specifically designed to address this issue and provide additional biological treatment when the need arises.

It involves a biological treatment - in a pre-contact tank, polluted water (BOD) is treated by activated sludge - followed by a high-performance secondary clarification: Actiflo®. 

This solution helps to cut down phosphorus, 60 to 80% of soluble BOD, and 85 to 90% of total BOD. It equally helps to maintain the integrity of the main treatment plant while avoiding sludge overflows.

What is primary treatment in wastewater treatment?

What is primary treatment in municipal wastewater treatment? 

Primary treatment: The first stage of the water treatment process focuses on separating suspended solids (SS) from wastewater. We remove 70% to 90% of these materials through our flocculation / coagulation / settling and flotation processes – with the injection of chemical reagents depending on the degree of treatment required.

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Meet Our Team

VP Municipal Sales Canada

Marc Lariviere

VP of Business Development (Canada)

Municipal Solutions

 

David Pearce

Municipal Business Development Director  - Ontario (Canada)

GTA, Golden Horseshoe, Niagara and west to Sarnia

Jason Boomhour

Municipal Business Development - Ontario & Manitoba (Canada)

Ontario: East of Hwy 400 and into Northern Ontario

Chris Howorth

Municipal Business Development (Canada)

British Columbia, Alberta & Saskatchewan 
 

Wayne Emery

Regional Sales Manager - Northeast (US)

Clarification & Filtration

Victoria Bates

Regional Sales Manager - Northeast (US)

Biological

Daniel Hurt

Regional Sales Manager - Southeast (US)

Biological

Andy Szekeress

Regional Sales Manager - Central (US)

Clarification, Filtration & Biological

Jim Georger

Regional Sales Manager - West (US)

Clarification, Filtration & Biosolids

Rodrigo Lara

Regional Sales Manager - West (US)

Biological