Sustainable Plant Reuses Lagoon To Reduce Footprint

Ontario’s Grand Bend treatment facility earns top recognition for sustainability based on environmental, economic and community benefits.

Jan 19, 2016 | by Doug Day |

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Sustainable Plant Reuses Lagoon To Reduce Footprint — The site includes a chemical storage retaining curb with headworks process piping roughed-in behind. The blue handle valves show where multiple force mains come into the headworks and where the force mains head out to lagoons for flow equalization.

Sustainable Plant Reuses Lagoon To Reduce Footprint — The new process building stands next to the two circular bioreactors. The prepackaged modular building simplified construction. The new administration building is attached to the front of the process building.

Sustainable Plant Reuses Lagoon To Reduce Footprint — The start of excavation for the polishing pond, an important component of Envision certification for the upgrade project at the Grand Bend Area Wastewater Treatment Facility.

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A clean-water plant upgrade in Ontario is setting a new standard for sustainable design and construction. With modularity and a focus on complete sustainability, the Grand Bend Area Wastewater Treatment Facility has earned the Platinum Award — the highest honor — from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI).Grand Bend is a small regional plant built in 1980 under the co-ownership of Lambton Shores and South Huron and operated by CH2M HILL. It needed to upgrade its capacity and its treatment process to serve a tourist area on Lake Huron in southern Ontario, just northeast of Detroit, Michigan.The old facultative lagoon

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