PFAS Treatment
PFAS is one of the hardest streams to treat, and few operators can. Evoro treats it at its own EPA-licensed facility, from collection through to compliant discharge.
What PFAS are
A family of more than 15,000 manufactured chemicals used for over fifty years to make products non-stick, water-repellent and resistant to heat, weather and stains.
Where they were used
Everything from carpets and clothing to firefighting foams and pesticides.
Why they are a problem
The property that made them useful makes them dangerous: they resist physical, chemical and biological breakdown.
The "forever chemicals"
They do not degrade. They accumulate in the environment and the body.
Linked to serious harm
The best-known compounds, PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS, have been linked to cancer.
Now widespread, found across Australia today
Largely banned from Australian manufacturing, but they persist from decades of past use and keep arriving from countries without the same restrictions. Present in waterways, seawater and drinking water.
Why it has to be treated
Standard wastewater treatment is designed to break contaminants down or settle them out. PFAS does neither. It passes straight through. Dilution only spreads it, and containment only holds it in place. To bring PFAS-contaminated water back to a compliant standard, it has to be actively treated by a process built for the job, and very few operators have one.
That is where Evoro comes in.
Evoro's capability
Treated on site, to one of the strictest standards in the country.
Accepts contaminated water
Evoro’s EPA-licensed Laverton facility accepts water with PFAS concentrations up to 2.8 parts per million.
Treated on site
Contaminated water is treated using flocculation and absorption, down to 1 part per billion.
Meets the strictest standard
That is the Queensland discharge standard, among the strictest in the country, and Evoro treats to it as standard.
A route for higher concentrations
Where material arrives above the licensed acceptance limit, Evoro partners with a licensed high-concentration facility.
An answer at any strength
Whatever strength the water comes in at, there is a treatment path for it.
A well-established capability
This was running before the Laverton facility’s recent upgrade, and that investment expanded what the site can take on.
Where PFAS water comes from
If any of these describe your site, we can help.
Firefighting foam
For decades, aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) was the standard for fighting fuel fires, used heavily at defence bases, RAAF sites and fire-training grounds. The PFAS in that foam has since moved into soil and groundwater across those sites and the land nearby. This is legacy contamination, carried by the current site holder through no fault of their own, and it is one of the most common streams Evoro treats.
Galvanising and industrial processes
PFAS is present in some industrial inputs and concentrates through the processes that use them, arriving as an ongoing byproduct of normal operations. For these sites it is a standing stream that needs a reliable home, load after load.
Site remediation
Leachate, wash water and contaminated groundwater generated while a site is investigated or cleaned up, often under a notice with a firm timeline.
One accountable partner
Responsibility for PFAS follows the generator all the way to its final destination. That is how the regulation works, and it means the strongest position is a treatment arrangement you can see the whole way through.
Our own facility
Evoro treats PFAS at its own EPA-licensed site, so one licensed operator is accountable across collection, transport and treatment. Nothing is handed to a broker you never meet.
One chain of custody
Every consignment is manifested and tracked from your gate to final discharge, accounted for at every step.
Records you can rely on
Each job produces a complete record, classification, transport, treatment and disposal, so you can evidence compliant management whenever you need to.
