Industrial wastewater treatment equipment in Burnaby

Burnaby's industry concentrates in the Big Bend flats along the Fraser and the Still Creek corridor, some of the last close-in industrial land in Metro Vancouver. Food and beverage plants, metal fabricators, biotech firms and electronics manufacturers share those zones in a city of 249,000, and every significant discharger holds a waste discharge permit under GVS&DD Bylaw 299.

Still Creek runs through the middle of it

Still Creek is the detail that changes behaviour here. A salmon-bearing urban stream flowing directly through the industrial corridor means a spill or a cross-connection is visible within hours, in a region where stream stewardship groups are organized and vocal. Plants in the corridor invest in secondary containment, drain mapping and stormwater segregation beyond the letter of their permits because the reputational cost of a creek incident dwarfs the capital saved. On the process side the work is standard Metro Vancouver fare, DAF for food plants, oil-water separation and metals treatment for fabricators, batch neutralization for biotech, delivered into buildings where floor space is the scarcest input.