Metro Vancouver · Critical water infrastructure
Metro Vancouver's regional drinking water system runs on hydraulic equipment at dams, filtration plants, pump stations and reservoirs. BNAC supplies the long-life, biodegradable Panolin fluids that keep that equipment moving — without putting the water it protects at risk.
See the full regional water system on metrovancouver.org ↗Metro Vancouver delivers about one billion litres of drinking water every day to member jurisdictions, rising past 1.5 billion litres in summer. That water comes from rainfall and snowmelt in three protected water supply areas — Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam — and is moved, stored and treated across a regional network.
Five dams hold the region's source water in place. The hydraulic equipment that operates them has to be dependable, because a failure is not an inconvenience — it is a regional risk. Biodegradable fluid means a leak is not a water-quality event.
The Seymour Capilano Filtration Plant is the largest drinking water filtration plant in Canada, and the Coquitlam Water Treatment Plant serves the eastern part of the region. Both run hydraulic equipment day in and day out, close to the water they protect.
Nineteen pump stations, eight re-chlorination facilities and twenty-eight in-system storage reservoirs and tanks move water across the region. Long-life fluid keeps maintenance intervals long and keeps fewer people on site.
Hydraulic equipment leaks. On ordinary ground that is a maintenance item. On a dam, at a filtration plant, or beside a reservoir, a leak is a water-quality event — so the fluid is part of the risk picture, not just a consumable.
Panolin is readily biodegradable and lasts far longer than conventional oils when it is kept properly filtered, which means fewer drain-downs, fewer people working on the equipment, and fluid that breaks down rather than persists if it ever reaches the water.
Reliability you can schedule around. Chemistry you can trust near drinking water.
Tell us what is operating, where it is, and what a leak would cost you. We will tell you honestly whether Panolin is the right fit.