Facility Locations & Information

In Partnership Since: October 1998 Location: City of Medicine Hat Facility Type: AENV Class II Facility Owner: City of Medicine Hat Operator: City of Medicine Hat Facility Contact: Reid McDougall - (403) 297-0444 Acceptable Waste Types: Non-haz Industrial and MSW

Permit Number: 78246-01-00

Facility information:
• LSD: Sections 3 & 4 -13-5 W4M
• Industrial and oilfield waste management, marketing, and facility development: WasteWorks Ltd.
• Solid non-hazardous industrial and solid non-dangerous oilfield waste streams accepted for disposal.

Common waste streams accepted include:

• Contaminated soils from spills and site remediation projects
• Produced water and chlorides contaminated soil
• Fly ash
• Hydrocarbon, salt, or other contaminated soils
• Drilling waste (cuttings)
• Asbestos

All disposal projects are subject to a waste approval procedure involving an evaluation of the physical and chemical characteristics of the waste. Generators will be required to provide representative third-party analysis for each new waste stream and for each new location.

Design information
The design of the cell complies with the criteria outlined in EUB ID 99-04 and the Draft Standards and Guidelines for Landfills in Alberta for no limits on total petroleum hydrocarbons or chlorides for disposal. The industrial and oilfield waste disposal cell is designed with:

• A leachate collection and removal system (perforated pipe system graded to drain to a main sump in the center of the cell).
• A one (1) meter thick compacted clay and a partial high-density polyethylene (HDPE) liner.