CA (BC): Wastewater treatment in a greenhouse
"It has now won two awards," said Maple Reinders Inc. (MRI) project director Andrew Ambrozy, P.Eng., as the wastewater centre, completed in 2015, has garnered both 2016 Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Canadian Construction Association awards.
The design-build project was completed by a MRI-led consortium which also consisted of Urban Systems Ltd. and Veolia Water Technologies Canada that had access to the Organica technology, and whose research arm is based in Budapest. The system is common in parts of Europe and Asia.
"We wanted to turn a wastewater treatment facility into a resource facility," said District of Sechelt mayor Bruce Milne, who credits the previous mayor John R. Henderson's role in initiating and bringing forward the project that is now attracting national attention.
The discharged water that emerges from the new facility is clear as tap water and the city is determine to find revenue-generating uses for it, albeit to irrigate agriculture, wash gravel, water golf courses, landscaping or utilizing it at a district level for irrigation when stringent water restrictions emerge during the drier summer months.
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