Upgrade work to Sparwood’s secondary treatment plant is coming soon after a contract worth over $17,500,000 was awarded.
Work will include new influent feed pumps, grit removal channel, duty/standby sequencing batch reactors, effluent flow equalization tank, sludge holding and associated piping and aeration systems.
A new control building will also be constructed along with a standby generator.
Sparwood’s wastewater treatment plant is well past its prime.
“The existing wastewater treatment plant we have now was built in 1967, and it is reaching its end-of-life. When it was built, it was a one-of-a-kind, so all of the parts we need have to be machined,” Mayor David Wilks said.
The total contract is worth $17,553,794 and will be funded through capital sewer reserves, the carbon neutral reserve fund, Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program grant, Strategic Priorities Fund grant, developer contribution and borrowing.
Wilks says the upgrades will help limit inadequate effluent from entering the river.
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