Problem: The Coaticook-Memphremagog region in Quebec, Canada, is a vacation destination, which makes wastewater management an important environmental challenge. The septic tanks of the dwellings must be cleaned every couple of years and the septage treated. Some 8,000 tons of septage are produced yearly.
Solution: The Intermunicipal Solid Waste Management Board of Coaticook, an organization of 22 municipalities, decided to take up the challenge. The board has built a centralized septage receiving facility. The liquid septage received at this facility first passes through a modular Claro septage screening system, which can be equipped with an independent wash press, automated rock trap,
