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Assessing the performance of cold climate natural wetlands in the treatment of
domestic wastewater effluents in northern Canada
Gordon Balch‡, Brent Wootton‡, Colin Yates†, Sven Jørgensen¥ and Annie Chouinard§ ‡Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment, Fleming College, Lindsay †Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Waterloo
¥ Water Research Laboratories, ASP, Væløse, Denmark § Civil Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston
Arctic Change Conference: T39-Planning, Design & Assessment of Water Resource Systems in Northern CommunitiesThursday, December 11th, 2014, Ottawa, Ontario
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Focus• Wetlands are providing a
treatment benefit• Assessment tools are available• Wetlands could be part of a
hybridized wastewater treatment strategy
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Background• CCME guidelines• Present and future
challenges for lagoon systems
• Tundra wetlands exist downstream of lagoons
Pond Inlet – sewage lagoon
Paulatuk– sewage lagoon
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Question: do wetlands provide treatment?
• Anecdotal evidence• Answer hampered by– Lack of knowledge – Lack of standardized testing– Inability to predict response
to changing conditionsUlukhaktuk
Wetland Surveysi. Arctic Summer (inlet, outlet)– Seasonal trend–No pretreatment or pretreatment (facultative
lakes or lagoons)– Lagoon decants / exfiltration– Performance (BOD5, TAN, TSS, microbial,
etc.)– Calibration of SubWet 2.0 rate coefficients for
Northern conditions
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Wetland Surveysii. Intensive Sampling– Rapid, intensive testing (2-4 days)– Sampling stations along transects
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Predictive tools – SubWet 2.0
• 16 rate coefficients• 25 differential equations• Easily obtained input parameters• Ability to calibrate to site conditions• Models BOD5, Ammonium, Organic Nitrogen,
Nitrate and Total Phosphorus• Easy to use• Available as free-ware
• Calibrated to 11 individual tundra treatment wetlands
Nunavut: Arviat, Coral Harbour, Gjoa Haven, Pond Inlet, Repulse Bay, Whale CoveNTW: Edzo, Fort Providence, Paulatuk, Taloyoak, Ulukhaktuk
% Derivation of Simulation from Measured
Nunavut NTWBOD5 Ammonium Total
PhosphorusBOD5 Ammonium Total
Phosphorus
Arviat 18 7 2 Edzo 8 15 9
Coral Harbour 5 14 8 Fort Providence 79 57 56
Gjoa Haven 2 3 12 Paulatuk 30 10 1
Pond Inlet 5 4 4 Taloyoak 15 2 9
Repusle Bay 5 4 4 Ulukhaktuk 5 16 11
Whale Cove 64 10 34
• Provides the lagoon operator the ability to forecast how the wetland will respond
• Forecast future capacities and needs
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Coral Harbour
Northern Wastewater Strategy
Hybridized approach (lagoons + wetlands)
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Concluding Remarks• Wetlands do provide treatment
benefit • Sampling protocols and predictive
tools exist• Consideration of a hybridized
approach should be considered
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Concluding Remarks• Demand for decentralized treatment likely to
increase• Demand for specialized treatment to off-load
burden to centralized systems may increase• May see greater need for advanced treatment
systems for Nitrate and Phosphorous in relationship to source water protection
Acknowledgements