Sewage Treatment Plant

• Contractor seems to have ‘abandoned’ North Shore wastewater plant, says Metro Vancouver

  The new billion-dollar sewage treatment plant has already faced cost overruns and delays.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2021
  
• Winnipeg sewage treatment plant upgrades to be funded by all levels of government

  A major funding announcement for Winnipeg's North End Sewage Treatment plant was made Friday, with contributions from all three levels of government.

  Health

  Jul 23, 2021
  
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• Winnipeg sewage treatment plant upgrades to cost $80 million more than expected

  Massive upgrades planned for Winnipeg's sewage treatment plants will be coming in at a much bigger price tag than originally expected -- to the tune of more than $80 million.

  Politics

  Apr 21, 2021
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• Vernon to resume discharging treated water from sewage treatment plant into Okanagan Lake

  Typically almost all of the treated water from the sewage treatment plant would go to a reservoir for use in irrigation.

  Feb 11, 2021
• $29-million lawsuit filed against Utilities Kingston over cancelled sewage plant contract

  Utilities Kingston faces a multi-million dollar lawsuit after breaking with a contractor charged with building the city's new sewage treatment plant last summer.

  Canada

  Jan 28, 2021
• Victoria no longer flushes raw sewage into ocean after area opens treatment plant

  The opening of the system was recently celebrated online by political and environmental leaders after decades of effort to get a sewage treatment plant.

  Jan 9, 2021
• Environmental group urging Vernon not to discharge treated effluent into Okanagan Lake

  The Sustainable Environmental Network Society is opposing the discharge, concerned it could impact both humans and aquatic life.

  Environment

  Jan 22, 2020
• B.C. mayor among leaders hoping wastewater management becomes election issue

  While climate change is dominating the environmental conversations leading into the federal vote, politicians who show plans to stop the dumping of sewage into Canada's waterways will be welcomed by municipal governments grappling with the issue.

  Canada

  Sep 1, 2019
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• New biolfilter clearing up sewage stink plaguing Lunenburg, N.S.

  Lunenburg town engineer Lee Fougere says a biofilter installed at the sewage treatment plant last winter at a cost of more than $1.1 million is now taking care of the foul odour that had become more noticeable during recent dry summers.

  Environment

  Aug 5, 2019
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• Lake Winnipeg algae blooms could be tackled with change at city sewage plant, say experts

  Reports of algae blooms on the lake, particularly in the Victoria Beach area, have been rampant this summer, and conservation groups are looking to the City of Winnipeg to help solve the problem.

  Environment

  Aug 2, 2019