When the rotating biological contactors at Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in northwestern Ontario experienced “catastrophic failures” and the existing RBCs couldn’t be replaced (because the building had been built around them), a new solution was going to be required.
J.R. Cousins Engineering turned to Nexom transform the remote first nation’s RBC basins—complete with challenging sloping sidewalls—into an easy-to-operate, efficient, reliable BioPorts™ moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR). This cost-effective system retrofit charts a course for future RBC sites to meet future treatment needs.
Read the full story published as a featured piece in the February 2026 issue of Environmental Science & Engineering (ES&E) magazine: Retrofitting the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations’ WWTP from a RBC to a MBBR.
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Cyclor® Turbo Featured In Water Daily
The article features Cyclor® Turbo—“an AGS process designed to help utilities increase treatment capacity and improve nutrient removal within existing infrastructure”—and the full-scale demonstration site in East St. Paul, Manitoba, which the article says is “helping answer questions utilities commonly raise when evaluating AGS technologies.”