Waste haulers
Licensed haulers consolidating vacuum-truck loads at a regional facility, facing long hauls to plants that ration septage.
Commercial division
Treatment for liquid waste with nowhere to go.
We treat collected sewage and process water from mining camps, remote operations, airports and regional haulers. Starting in Northern Ontario, Brookstream designs, permits, owns and operates the treatment system, giving our clients a compliant outlet close to where the waste is collected.
Who we serve
Operators that collect wastewater and have no local treatment outlet.
Mining and camps
Mines, exploration and construction camps running 24/7 workforces with sewage and process water to dispose of every day.
Regional airports
Terminal and hangar wastewater, plus glycol-laden de-icing pad fluid that has no local disposal outlet today.
Remote communities
Municipalities and First Nations trucking septage and lagoon overflow hundreds of kilometres for disposal.
How it works
We sit at the treatment step of an existing supply chain.
Brookstream does not collect or haul. We treat what already arrives, with volume measured by calibrated meters and effluent held to the parameters in the approval.
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01 · Generation
Sites produce wastewater
Mining and exploration camps, remote work sites and unsewered communities produce sewage and process water that must be hauled away.
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02 · Collection
Haulers consolidate
Licensed haulers collect by vacuum truck and consolidate at a regional waste facility.
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03 · Treatment
Brookstream treats
Miracell units inside the facility treat the liquid to the effluent parameters set in the approval.
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04 · Discharge
Effluent is released
Treated effluent passes to the facility's receiving works; residuals are handled under the facility's own permits.
What our clients gain
- Treatment on site replaces long-haul disposal at municipal plants that may refuse or ration septage.
- No treatment plant to run and no environmental approval to hold. Brookstream carries both.
- Predictable treatment costs replace an unpredictable disposal problem.
- Dedicated treatment capacity becomes a selling point to a hauler's own mining and industrial customers.
Proven with an industry leader
Our first treatment services agreement is executed with E360.
Environmental 360 Solutions (E360) is a national environmental services company with liquid and hazardous waste, solid waste and industrial cleaning lines. Its facilities receive exactly the kind of hauled liquid waste the Commercial division was built to treat.
The agreement puts Brookstream's model to work with an established counterparty and is structured so it can be repeated at other facilities.
The problems we solve for haulers
Nowhere to take the load
Municipal plants that limit or refuse septage leave haulers driving further for fewer outlets.
A compliance burden they did not sign up for
Brookstream holds the approval and carries the monitoring and reporting, so the host does not have to become a treatment operator.
Capacity that limits growth
On-site treatment lets a hauler take on more volume and more customers without adding kilometres.
The market
The disposal route Northern Ontario relies on is closing.
Hauled sewage from camps, mines and communities has long gone to disposal trenches and municipal lagoons. That path is narrowing, and the treatment that replaces it has yet to be delivered at small scale.
Trenches are the status quo
Much of the North's septage and camp sewage goes to permitted land trenches or lagoons never designed for today's volumes.
New trenches are not being approved
In Brookstream's experience, existing sites are aging out and new trench disposal is not being granted.
Municipal plants are full
The few plants that accept septage limit or refuse it as their own capacity tightens.
The regulator wants engineered treatment
Monitored treatment with an approval behind it, delivered at camp and hauler scale in the North.
Our Northern Ontario plan
Five target sites to bring treatment to the North.
Our goal is to build all five: sites hosted at existing waste receiving facilities and on regional airports, sited where hauling distances are longest and demand is most captive. Locations, partners and timing will evolve as plans develop.
- Target site
- Reference city
- Major highway
- Ring of Fire region
| Site | Planned host | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Red Lake | Regional airport | Target |
| Dryden | Regional airport | Target |
| Geraldton | Regional airport | Target |
| Kapuskasing | Waste receiving facility | Target |
| Timmins | Waste receiving facility | Target |
Airport satellites
One facility on the airport. Four streams.
Each planned satellite sits in a building on a regional airport and treats what arrives from across its catchment, giving the airport, local operators and nearby communities a single compliant outlet.
Airport sewage
Terminal and hangar wastewater currently hauled away or held in aging on-site systems.
De-icing pad fluid
Glycol-laden runoff collected through the winter, a stream with no local disposal outlet today.
Mines and camps
Hauled sewage and process water from mining and exploration operations in the catchment: the largest stream by volume.
Communities
Septage and lagoon overflow from nearby municipalities and First Nations that currently truck it hundreds of kilometres.
Why the airport
Regional airports sit at the road hub of their catchment, so the vacuum-truck routes that serve the mines already pass the gate. The airport offers a serviced building envelope, three-phase power and staff on site, which takes the site search, servicing and staffing problems out of each satellite.
Northern Ontario is building
Every new road, camp and mine adds to the stream.
Road camps come first, then exploration camps, then mine construction camps, none of them serviced. The waste is generated today and grows with every project that breaks ground.
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Active mining operations
In Ontario today, with 6 new mines and 4 expansions under way
2026–31
Ring of Fire road build
Ground broken September 2026; network complete 2031
379,000+
Active mining claims
In Ontario at the end of 2025
~100,000L/day
From one 500-person camp
About the design volume of one Brookstream satellite
Beyond the North
A template that travels.
Host facilities
Waste receiving facilities across Canada
Wherever hauled liquid waste is consolidated and the local outlet is full or far away, a Brookstream system can be installed inside the host's existing facility.
Satellites
Regional airports and remote hubs
Any regional airport with a mining or community catchment and no local treatment outlet is a candidate for a satellite on the same template.
Hauling liquid waste further every year?
We partner with haulers, mines, camps, airports and communities that need a compliant outlet close to where the volume already arrives.