Sanitary Sewage Treatment System Upgrades & Improvements

Type of initiative FCM Green Municipal Fund - Plans, Studies, Pilots
Sector Water
Project value$80,000
Project Type Feasibility Study
Sub Sector Wastewater Management and Treatment
Grant amount$37,375
Program type GMF
Municipality Township of Stirling-Rawdon, ON
Status Fully Disbursed
Population 5,015
Project timeline 2001 - 2009
Project number 2548

Description

This project would investigate innovative technologies to treat sewage. Those technologies include "snowfluent" (thecommercial name for a technology that uses natural freezing of atomized effluent for disinfection and treatment) andwetland treatment systems, as well as conventional sewage treatment technologies. The study will assess the feasibilityof upgrading and expanding the treatment facilities located just south of the former village limits. Any upgrade wouldimprove the effectiveness and efficiency of the treatment process, while balancing the need to improve the quality ofRawdon Creek and other bodies of water that currently receive effluent from the treated waste. The study will set a goalof removing 30 to 40 per cent more pollutants than required by existing provincial limits.

Applicant

Township of Stirling-Rawdon, ON