Our Projects
At MS Filter Systems we make it our business to solve the drinking water challenges unique to small and remote communities. Everything we do is in service of the end user, ensuring a sustainable system that is robust and resilient. With over 40 projects in operation across North America, we have the experience and the expertise to deliver a time tested solution to ensure the highest quality drinking water for your community.
MS Filter Systems is simply a better solution.
Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek
Gull Bay First Nation
Commissioned 2021
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 600 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Gull Bay off Lake Nipigon
72% Reduction in Turbidity
61% Reduction in DOC
85% Reduction in Colour
30% Improvement in UVT
Nigigoonsiminikaaning
Red Gut First Nation
Commissioned 2004, Upgraded 2020
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 188 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Rainy Lake
84% Reduction in Turbidity
86% Reduction in DOC
88% Reduction in Colour
30% Improvement in UVT
Canisbay (2003), Lake of Two Rivers (2003), Pog Lake (2003), Samuel de Champlain (2005), Portage Store (2003)
Unit Processes: Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter
Design Capacity: Between 100 and 218 cubic meters/day
These 4, compact water treatment plants serving campgrounds in Algonquin Park are taken out of commission every winter and recommissioned every spring. These small, simple plants have been successfully providing safe drinking water to park guests with minimal maintenance for more than 20 years.
Algonquin Park
Multiple Campground Sites
Cowan Point
Bowen Island, BC
Commissioned 2007
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 640 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Josephine Lake
85% Reduction in Iron
47% Reduction in TOC
75% Reduction in Colour
Cowan Point is a private development on the picturesque shores of Bowen Island. This plant illustrates beautifully the power of simple design. The water treatment plant is housed in a simple prefabricated steel building that is practical and unassuming, receding into the surrounding hills. The source water at Cowan Point has relatively low TOC but has the added challenge of iron levels at 0.35mg/L, which we have successfully reduced down to 0.02mg/L - well below the federal guidelines.
Naicatchewenin
First Nation
Commissioned 2022
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 523.5 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Rainy Lake
The Naicatchewenin community is home to one of the province’s first slow sand filtration systems. The original plant was built in 1985, drawing surface water from the Footprint River. In 2001 a site inspection by the OCWA reported the plant to be serving 47 homes and identified several problems with the plant facility that included a lack of ventilation, a lack of backup power and a marked lack of working space and facilities. MS Filter conducted an 11-month pilot study from November 2012 to October 2013 to evaluate the performance of the MSF technology. The equipment used for this study included ozonation, roughing filtration and slow sand filtration with two trains each with identical filter columns. The pilot study demonstrated that the MS Filter process is capable of meeting effluent turbidity regulations, and of providing enhanced removals of DOC and colour (and related precursors) once the filter has been acclimatized. Construction commenced in April 2020 on the new water treatment plant that would draw directly from Rainy Lake, just downstream from the original plant.
Chippewas of Georgina Island
First Nation
Commissioned 2019
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 400 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Lake Simcoe
80% Reduction in Turbidity
50% Reduction in DOC
63% Reduction in Colour
30% Improvement in UVT
Mitaanjigamiing
First Nation
Commissioned 2021
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 300 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Rainy Lake
The Mitaanjigamiing First Nation water treatment plant was a third party plant upgrade completed by MS Filter in 2021. The existing concrete tanks were viable so we upgraded the underdrain system, supplied new filter media, and added an ozone pre-treatment. Mitaanjigamiing is now the temporary home of the MSF Pilot Trailer, as we study some exciting new technology that has the potential to becoming a new modular enhancement to our system.
Shoal Lake 40
First Nation
Commissioned 2021
Unit Processes: Ozone, Roughing Filter, Slow Sand Filter, GAC Contactor
Design Capacity: 570.2 cubic meters/day
Source Water: Shaol Lake
After being on a boil water advisory since 1997, this project began with a 3-month pilot study in 2010. In 2019, a 24 kms stretch of road connecting Shoal Lake 40 to the mainland was completed and named Freedom Road, allowing building materials to be brought in, and construction on their long-awaited water treatment plant commenced in 2020. Not only does the community now have safe drinking water, but the funds that had been earmarked for importing bottled water (approximately $150,000 per year) are now being allocated to building housing, as band members are more likely to stay on, or move back to their home community. This includes the Operator of the Water Treatment Plant, who was able to move back to his home community to run the plant.