Fleming College is proud to announce that its Centre for Advancement of Water and Wastewater Technologies (CAWT) has been renewed as a Technology Access Centre (TAC) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for an additional five years. This renewal was part of an announcement made today by Yasir Naqvi, Parliamentary
The CAWT’s Manager, Jennifer Andersen, is the featured member in the Ontario Onsite Wastewater Association’s (OOWA) Summer 2022 newsletter! Thanks to OOWA for featuring Jenn and the CAWT – we are proud to continue to be a part of OOWA. You can see more of OOWA’s Summer 2022 newsletter on their website.
The CAWT was proud to participate in Fleming College’s first annual Applied Research Showcase this week. During the Showcase, the CAWT debuted two new videos, which are linked below. Have a look! The first video features the CAWT’s Manager, Jennifer Andersen, as well as Nate, a CAWT Student Lab Assistant. See the video here: The second
Peterborough, ON – (November 9, 2020) Fleming College’s Centre for Advancement of Water and Wastewater Technologies (CAWT) has been awarded $50,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for research infrastructure related to the CAWT’s COVID-19 research. The funding announcement was made earlier by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. The
Peterborough ON – (October 1, 2020) – Researchers from Fleming College and QuantWave Technologies Inc. are working together to investigate the capability of QuantWave’s intelligent sensing system to provide an early warning of COVID-19 outbreaks when monitoring wastewater. Fleming College was awarded $75,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) College
The second edition of the Environmental Management Handbook has been released, featuring research completed by the CAWT. The chapter, authored by Colin Yates, Brent Wootton, and Stephen Murphy, is titled ‘Wastewater Treatment Wetlands: Use in Arctic Regions 5-Year Update”. It appears in the handbook’s volume IV, ‘Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems’. From the
The CAWT’s Dr. Gordon Balch is retiring this summer. Gord has been a wonderful colleague and an integral part of the team at the CAWT and at Fleming College’s School of Environmental and Natural Resources Sciences (SENRS). Gord started in 2009 in a temporary position as Research Scientist and Manager for the CAWT. In 2010
Important COVID-19 Updates Fleming College (and the CAWT) is following best practices for social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic; accordingly, we are currently operating with reduced staff. We are monitoring email for urgent issues, but responses will likely be delayed. Thank you for your patience. As a public educational institution, our primary focus during
We are thrilled at the progress of the creation of our new Onsite Wastewater Research & Testing facility located about an hour north from our main Lindsay, Ontario location. The new facility is nearly ready and we can’t wait to show you inside. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek. Our new facility will be
Fleming College will receive $2,899,974 in research funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) College and Community Innovation (CCI) Program. The majority of this funding was awarded to the Centre for Advancement of Water and Wastewater Technologies (CAWT), which became an NSERC Technology Access Centre (TAC) in 2014. “We are proud
The Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) has released its Impact Report, highlighting the successful Advancing Water Technologies (AWT) program. The Report is impressive, outlining the innovative achievements of the Consortium and its industry partners. AWT funding also helped several companies advance solutions for treating biosolids from municipal wastewater plants. For example, Walker Environmental worked with Fleming College’s CAWT to
CAWT Manager and Senior Scientist Dr. Barbara Siembida-Losch was presented her Professional Engineers of Ontario licence last week. Congratulations! Barbara is now the second Professional Engineer that the CAWT currently has on staff.
The public review of the standard W203 Municipal Wastewater Treatment in Northern Communities using Lagoon and Wetland Systems has begun. The CAWT’s Dr. Gordon Balch is a member of the Technical Subcommittee that was responsible for writing most of the draft standard. Dr. Balch has extensive knowledge and experience in cold temperature and tundra wastewater