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Regional Co-Composting Facility
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Morrison Hershfield as part of a team of engineers provided engineering services for the design and construction of a new state-of-the-art $100 million regional co-composting facility that was the largest of its kind in North America.  The Edmonton AB region facility has the capacity to process approximately 1,100 tons per day of municipal solid waste (MSW) and up to 85 dry tons of municipal biosolids waste (MSS).

The complex is a stand-alone facility located at the City's Clover Bar Waste Management Site.  It includes a 5000 square metre Tipping Building, complete with a tipping floor, sorting floor and a lower service tunnel to house storage tanks and ram feeder equipment.  A two-storey, 18 meter high Dewatering Building is complete with a 640 cubic metre sludge tank, pumping equipment, centrifuge units and lab facilities.  A 25,000 square metre stainless steel Aeration Building contains complex aeration turning equipment and load-out facilities.  The complex also includes five 5000 mm diameter by 75 metre long steel rotating digesters, complete with foundation systems; a Digester Discharge Building complete with conveyor systems; a 2,000 square metre, two-storey, 15 metre high combined Trommel and Rejects Load-out Building; a Biofilter complex; and an Administration Building for plant personnel and administrative staff.

The new co-composting facility is designed to handle approximately 70% of the municipal waste generated in the Edmonton Region, as well as the majority of the sludge from the Gold Bar and Clover Bar sewage treatment plants. The facility provides an environmentally sound solution to the region's waste, converting it into a rich soil amendment used primarily for forest recovery and industrial land reclamation.

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