Commercial Sewage Treatment

The oil, mining, and tourism industries in the United States and Canada face intense levels of public and regulatory scrutiny. Lifewater’s ExtremeSTP® wastewater treatment plants provide consistently high effluent quality and satisfy all discharge requirements while also meeting your needs for mobility and expandability.

Our commercial systems include a SCADA system for remote monitoring and control via the Internet. If Internet access is not available, we can provide it via a satellite dish mounted on the treatment plant. Internet access enables us to provide real-time operational assistance, troubleshooting, and training to the operator without our staff having to travel to the field. This saves you time and money and gives regulators a high level of assurance that your system is operating properly.

We offer remote supervision by certified operator. With approval of a written plan by the State of Alaska this may allow your system to be officially under the supervision of an offsite certified operator without requiring you to hire a certified operator.

Portable Systems (seasonal or year-around)

Lifewater’s portable systems are suitable for camps including those used for mineral exploration, ice road construction, oil/gas exploration drilling, road construction or maintenance, spill cleanup, environmental remediation, etc.

Our portable sewage treatment plants use sidestream, tubular, cross-flow, polymeric, membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment technology, which offers the following advantages:

small footprint
the membranes are resistant to damage by the vibrations and shocks that sometimes happen during transit
the membranes are inside pipes rather than tanks so there is no need to handle dirty membranes
winterization for storage in freezing temperatures is easy and requires very little antifreeze
startup and shutdown are simple
all operation and service activities can be performed within the protection of the enclosure (typically a standard height, 20 or 40-foot long shipping container). No through-the-roof access is required. No double-stacking of containers is required

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Non-portable Systems

For non-portable treatment plants we use the best treatment technology for your application whether it is an oil production facility, operating mine, tourist accommodation, fishing lodge, church, village, subdivision, apartment building, etc. Many technologies are possible but the ones that we typically choose from include:

Submerged fixed film activated sludge (sometimes followed by a polishing filter)
- low energy use
- very simple technology to operate and maintain

Immersed, ceramic flat plate MBRs
- 20-year life (projected)
- low energy use
- not damaged by drying out after use
- once dry they can be allowed to freeze without damage, hence winterization and long term storage are simple
- can withstand backpressure for cleaning

Immersed, polymeric flat plate MBRs
- low energy use
- relatively lightweight

Sidestream, cross-flow, polymeric tubular MBRs
- small footprint
- the membranes are resistant to damage by the vibrations and shocks that sometimes happen during transit
- the membranes are inside pipes rather than tanks so there is no need to handle dirty membranes
- winterization for storage in freezing temperatures is easy and requires very little antifreeze
- startup and shutdown are simple
- all operation and service activities can be performed within the protection of the enclosure (typically a standard height, 20 or 40-foot long shipping container). No through-the-roof access is required. No double-stacking of containers is required.

All of these technologies can be manufactured in various configurations, including inside shipping containers to facilitate transport to a site. Larger systems (tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or several million gallons per day) can be placed inside a heated building. Summer use only systems can be used outdoors in uninsulated configurations.

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