Hi Guy McGowen. In Australia, the disposal of the ice pigging waste is never put back into the potable water system. Instead it is carried out in the following ways: 1. In areas where there is an, ocean outfall sewer treatment plant, we are able to put the ice waste through the sewer system. 2. For inland areas where the sewer treatment plant outlet is directed to a river the salt content of the ice makes it unwise to dispose through the plant. 3. In these areas we use the drying beds of a water treatment plant. These drying beds collect the filtered products from treating the water, it is dried out and disposed of in a number of ways, sometimes in land remediation or landfilled. For a more comprehensive overview of SUEZ’s use of ice pigging technology, read more here: http://bit.ly/2iVddK7

Published November 15, 2017 06:10 by Olivia Burke, Communications Coordinator at SUEZ

Hi Guy McGowen. In Australia, the disposal of the ice pigging waste is never put back into the potable water system. Instead it is carried out in the following ways:

1. In areas where there is an, ocean outfall sewer treatment plant, we are able to put the ice waste through the sewer system.

2. For inland areas where the sewer treatment plant outlet is directed to a river the salt content of the ice makes it unwise to dispose through the plant.

3. In these areas we use the drying beds of a water treatment plant. These drying beds collect the filtered products from treating the water, it is dried out and disposed of in a number of ways, sometimes in land remediation or landfilled.

For a more comprehensive overview of SUEZ’s use of ice pigging technology, read more here: http://bit.ly/2iVddK7