Bishop’s Christine Gan wins Award of Excellence from Algonquin College
DATE POSTED: June 25, 2020
Bishop Water Engineer, Christine Gan, was recently honoured with an Award of Excellence from Algonquin College for her role as a supervisor and mentor for co-op student Breanna Foster.
Breanna joined Bishop Water in May 2019 to complete the co-op component of her Environmental Technician Program and worked closely with Christine over the next three months. Breanna credits Christine with creating a great environment to apply the skills she learned at Algonquin and to learn new skills while working on a challenging BioCord project to study and optimize total nitrogen removal.
Christine’s efforts helped Breanna to expand her capabilities and interest in a dynamic and rapidly growing industry — one that she’s become very involved in. Once her co-op placement was complete, we were so impressed with Breanna’s performance and enthusiasm, we offered her a job. Breanna’s now a permanent part of the Bishop Water team as an Environmental Technician and is involved in many aspects of product research and development, project delivery and business operations.
And Breanna was so impressed with Christine’s support, that she nominated her for the Outstanding Contribution to Algonquin College Cooperative Education Award.
Congratulations to both Christine and Breanna!
Watch a video about their experience together in the Algonquin College Co-op Program.
Bishop Water wins 2020 Water’s Next Award
DATE POSTED: June 19, 2020
We are honored and excited to receive the 2020 Water’s Next award in the category of Projects and Technology: Early Adoption. The award recognizes the use of Bishop BioCord reactors and the benefits of this simple, low-energy system to upgrade the treatment and performance of the wastewater lagoons at the Limoges WWTF.
This project enables the Nation Municipality to extend the life of its existing wastewater treatment lagoon system and avoid the need to replace it with a costly mechanical treatment plant. Enhanced ammonia removal with BioCord Reactors, in combination with other facility upgrades including screening, grit removal, disk filtration and UV disinfection, allows the Limoges WWTF to alter its operation from intermittent discharge to continuous discharge. With these treatment improvements, the community will be better able to service residential and commercial growth and ensure compliance with treatment regulations.
BioCord is a simple, easy-to-operate fixed-film treatment process. The BioCord system uses strands of densely arranged loops of polymer fibers suspended from free-standing frames to provide a massive surface area on which preferred, naturally occurring bacteria can grow.
With an optimized BioCord system, wastewater lagoons can accept greater nutrient loading, decrease retention times and improve effluent quality—especially in cold-weather conditions, when treatment typically becomes more difficult for conventional lagoon systems.
Bishop Water CEO Kevin Bossy accepted the award during the Canadian Water Summit, which was presented virtually on June 11.
Many thanks to the following:
We are extremely grateful to RV Anderson and Trish Johnson for seeing the benefits of BioCord Reactors for this project, and for working with us to show that this fixed-film treatment technology offers the best technical solution and the best economic value, both on capital and operating costs, to the Nation Municipality.
Thank you to the Nation Municipality for their vision and leadership in choosing BioCord Reactors and for trusting Bishop Water to deliver the biological treatment portion of this plant upgrade. We won’t let you down.
Thank you to Water Canada, The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association and to the selection committee. We are also grateful to the category sponsors, Peterborough and Kawarthas Economic Development and Cleantech Commons at Trent University and to Martin Yuill for presenting the award.
Most of all, thank you to the team at Bishop Water for their outstanding dedication, commitment and hard work — not just for this project — but throughout the entire journey of developing and commercializing BioCord Reactors.
Learn more about BioCord Reactors.
Read the official award announcement from Water Canada
Bishop Water nominated for 2020 Water’s Next award
DATE POSTED: May 22, 2020
Bishop Water has been selected as a finalist for a 2020 Water’s Next Award in the category of Projects and Technology: Early Adoption.
The nomination recognizes the use of Bishop BioCord™ Reactors to cost-effectively extend the life of the Limoges Wastewater Treatment Facility in the Nation Municipality near Ottawa, ON.
This simple, low-energy process enabled the Nation Municipality to avoid the high cost of replacing the lagoons with a complex mechanical treatment plant.
Sixty BioCord reactors will be installed directly into two new lagoon cells that will be created by dividing a large existing cell. Baffle curtains will also be added into the new cells to direct the flow of wastewater through a channel of BioCord Reactors, increase the retention time and prevent short-circuiting.
This configuration provides significant reductions in capital costs since no increase in lagoon footprint or addition of sidestream process tanks are needed for the BioCord system to enhance the secondary treatment process. BioCord’s modular, scalable design also enables secondary treatment capacity to be easily expanded by simply installing additional reactors to achieve the required performance.
With an optimized BioCord system, wastewater lagoons can accept greater nutrient loading, decrease retention times and improve effluent quality—especially in cold-weather conditions, when treatment typically becomes more difficult for conventional lagoon systems.
Winners will be announced during the Canadian Water Summit virtual event on June 11, 2020 by Water Canada and the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA). More information and tickets are available here.
Wish us luck!
Read our press release about the BioCord project at Limoges WWTF.
Learn more about Bishop BioCord reactors