City of Regina 150 Million WWT Project

By: PETER KENTER -- Daily Commercial News.

Feb. 2010 - The City of ty of Regina, Canada  has issued an RFP for engineering services to support an upgrade to its wastewater treatment plant. Until now, the city had been working up to the major plant improvement in stages, concentrating on such smaller projects as a new forcemain and pumping station retrofits. With a construction budget estimated at $120 to $130 million, this project would represent the most significant investment in wastewater infrastructure in the citys history.

"The mechanical wastewater treatment plant was built 50 years ago, but isn't up to the standards of the new federal wastewater guidelines," says Vicki Campbell, Manager of Wastewater Treatment, City of Regina. "The mechanical plant does a good job of removing solids, biological waste and some nutrients. What we need is a different process to remove more of the nutrients from the wastewater. Nitrogen is the challenge for us with the current technology. We'll need a massive expansion of some sort, hopefully using the existing facilities as much as possible." Go go full article.