North Shore to get new $700 million wastewater treatment plant
Posted March 11, 2017 5:17 pm.
Last Updated March 11, 2017 6:29 pm.
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(BURNABY) NEWS 1130 – The water you flush or send down the drain will be getting a second round of treatment before it’s pumped back into the environment on the North Shore.
Multiple levels of government will put $700 million into a new Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The federal government will contribute $212.3 million.
The BC government will contribute $193 million.
Metro Vancouver is responsible for the remaining costs.
The announcement was made in Barnaby, Saturday.
Darrell Mussatto, mayor of North Vancouver, says the current plant was built in 1961 and there have been significant developments since that time.
“The new technology is out there. We can do secondary treatment, which means we treat the water to a much higher quality. The current plant is also on Squamish First Nation land so we need to be able to give their land back to them.”
The new plant will be relocated about 2 kilometers east of the current facility to a new Metro Vancouver-owned space in the District of North Vancouver.
Musssatto says construction will likely start at the end of 2017 or early 2018.
“It’s going to have the latest technology of resource recovery so we’re going to make sure that we recover the gas from that to use beneficially, the heat energy that comes from the plant, from the biosolids that can be produced.”
It’s estimated the development of the new facility will create thousands of jobs in the area.
