An oil support services company decided to build a camp for 220 workers outside Fairview, Mont., to serve oil production in the Bakken region. Officials hired Travis West, RS/REHS, of Engineering West in Columbus to design the onsite system and related infrastructure.
Winter temperatures along the Montana-North Dakota border often hover in the single digits and can fall to -40 degrees F. To handle the cold and its effect on the biological treatment process, West specified the pre-engineered fixed-film bioreactor system invented by Thomas Kallenbach, P.E., of Eliminite in Belgrade, Mont., and Justin Buchanan, owner of E-On Northwest in Bozeman, Mont.
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