| 1972 |
Alberta
Environment commissioned a study and an action plan was prepared to
develop a provincial hazardous waste management system. |
| 1972-82 |
A
series of public hearings and workshops were held province wide to
decide how best to proceed. |
| 1982 |
Chem-Security
Ltd. was selected to design, build and operate the Alberta Special Waste
Treatment Centre |
| 1983 |
Swan
Hills plebiscite indicated that 79% of the voters were in favor of
hosting the hazardous waste facility. |
| 1985 |
Construction
of the plant started and baseline environmental monitoring commenced. |
| 1987 |
Alberta
Special Waste Treatment Centre officially opened and commenced
operation. |
| 1988 |
The
Facility was licensed to incinerate PCBs on a commercial basis. |
| 1989 |
Plant
was expanded by adding a rotary kiln incinerator to compliment the
rocking kiln incinerator facility. |
| 1990 |
Transformer
furnace facility added to the rotary kiln incinerator. |
| 1993 |
Plant
expanded again by adding large rotary kiln incinerator and
decommissioned the rocking kilns. |
| 1994 |
Large
rotary kiln was licensed to process waste. A new
Stabilization/Solidification Plant was commissioned. |
| 1995 |
Bovar
Waste Management took over as owner/operator. The plant was
renamed "Swan Hills Treatment Centre". A new water
treatment plant was commissioned. |
| 1996 |
The
small rotary kiln and the transformer furnace was removed from service. |
| 2001 |
Sensor
Environmental Services acquired interim contract to operate the Swan
Hills Treatment Centre for Alberta Infrastructure. |
| 2003 |
Earth
Tech (Canada) Inc. acquired long term contract to operate the Swan Hills
Treatment Centre for Alberta Infrastructure. |
| 2008 |
Earth Tech
joined AECOM, a leading global provider of professional technical
services |
