A Land Reclamation Project in Ontario Involves a City Utility in a Three-Way Partnership

An award-winning project in Greater Sudbury puts Class A biosolids to work restoring vegetation and wildlife to mine tailings areas.

A Land Reclamation Project in Ontario Involves a City Utility in a Three-Way Partnership

The biosolids facility transforms solids from all wastewater treatment plants in Greater Sudbury into Class A biosolids. The facility is owned by the city but operated by N-Viro and uses a patented N-Viro process. The final product is used in mine reclamation.

In a mining district of northeastern Ontario, biosolids from wastewater treatment plants are being used to revegetate land that had been covered with mine tailings.

The mining reclamation is the result of a public-private partnership between the City of Greater Sudbury and N-Viro...

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