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2010 RDNO Environmental Leadership Award Winner for Sustainability

Landfill Leachate Remediation Project 5 Year Review

Phyto installation project in Armstrong: 2007 overview 2006 overview

Spallumcheen solar powered installation update.

Congratulations to the City of Armstrong on winning a Communities in Bloom National Award.

Passive Remediation Systems Ltd. (PRS) was formed in 2004 in response to the growing need for disposal of landfill leachate in today's communities and the need to create buffers for farms and streams. By applying the emerging Phytoremediation Technology to landfill leachate utilization by way of irrigating hybrid poplar orchards in the landfill buffer zones, we can offer a cost effective and environmentally sound means of leachate management. In the farming communities we can mitigate the flow of nutrients downstream with planted buffer zones, as well as create visually esthetic barriers. As the poplar plantations mature an ideal source of wood fibre becomes available for harvesting. 

This technology is being utilized in the USA and other parts of the world, but here in Canada the practice is not well used. In doing research we have determined that there is a need for our company to offer this technology. As a result PRS was started to promote the following forms of alternative remediation:

• Uptake of bio-hazards such as leachate from landfill sites
• Remediation of old mine sites (Phytoremediation)
• Sound and odor buffers
• Stream side remediation
• Factory farm buffers.

Poplars are used world wide as landfill caps and on hydrocarbon polluted lands. The poplar is an excellent carbon fixer, and soil and water filter. This technology fits the parameters as set out in the Kyoto Protocol ratified by the federal government in 2002.

Wood fiber uses in the future include a renewable energy source (pellets for heating), plywood veneer, board lumber, pulp, and other uses. This can now become a new industry with new opportunities for the next generation.

PRS is poised to work closely with local government, and private industry, to provide solutions for development of alternative means of soil and water remediation.