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Activated carbon is one of the most effective media for removing a wide range of contaminants from industrial and municipal waste waters, landfill leachate and contaminated ground. As the world’s most powerful adsorbent, it can cope with a wide range of contaminants. Different contaminants may be present in the same discharge and carbon may be used to treat the total flow, or it may be better utilized to remove specific contaminants as part of a multistage approach.

As with potable water, Chemviron Carbon has a dedicated reactivation facility that handles industrial grades of spent carbon. If required, the spent carbon can be returned and kept segregated – custom reactivation or the carbon can be taken from, and returned to, an industrial pool of carbon.

The specification and quality of this material is tightly controlled, ensuring the customer receives a reliable product. With dedicated industrial tankers and mobile equipment, Chemviron Carbon, can provide an exceptional service that helps customers meet and exceed their environmental responsibilities.

Some Michigan communities are facing the difficult task of upgrading or expanding their facultative lagoons that discharge twice a year. The upgrading or expansion is like a two-edged sword with respect to cost. The capital costs as well as the operation & maintenance costs can potentially take giant leaps into higher ground unless the project is given the closest of scrutiny.

The capital costs are high because lagoons now need to be sealed with a plastic liner placed over an impermeable clay base. Previously, either plastic or clay was required. Now both are needed. This makes the capital cost of a mechanical treatment plant competitive with the low-tech lagoons. The answer seems simple. Just build a mechanical treatment plant.

Whoa!! The operating and maintenance (O & M) costs of a mechanical treatment plant are about five times that of a lagoon. The result is not palatable. The capital costs may raise the water and sewer rates by 30% and the O & M costs may raise the rates by another 30% for a total of a whopping 60%.

Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, both runoff (effluents) and domestic. It includes physical, chemical and biological processes to remove physical, chemical and biological contaminants. Its objective is to produce a waste stream (or treated effluent) and a solid waste or sludge suitable for discharge or reuse back into the environment. This material is often inadvertently contaminated with many toxic organic and inorganic compounds.