Envirogen Technologies and Suez Environnement have formed a collaborative alliance to deliver comprehensive, cost-effective water and wastewater treatment to the power industry in North America.

The alliance will combine Suez Environnement’s capabilities in physical/chemical treatment technologies with Envirogen’s expertise in biological treatment, but can extend to include the breadth of the technology portfolios of both companies.

Near-term project targets for the alliance include groundwater and landfill leachate treatment related to coal combustion residuals (CCRs), and flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater treatment. Both of these areas will be governed by new US federal regulations coming online in the next 48 months.

In February Suez Environnement won a €84 million ($95 million) contract to operate and maintain two wastewater treatment plants at Gabal El Asfar in Cairo, Egypt.