This is a great website and helps to put the credentials of D & K into a clearer perspective. If you click on each of the different WTP in different parts of the province there is a wide ranging scatter of technology that a layperson can acquire some understanding.
Look at the Salmon Arm plant write-up, for example - updated in 2005 and an award in 2006. There is a description of all sorts of sophisticated techie stuff. Note near the bottom of the write up there is a paragraph entitled Previous Stages of the Plant that begins in 1973 - which looks almost like what is planned for us now - an activated sludge plant using aerobic digestion and aerated lagoons for sludge storage. This was replaced in 1978 - and further revisions added in 1987, then again in 1995 and finally the award winning current plant completed in 2005.
The info gleaned from looking at each of the different communities serviced by D&K emphasizes Noel Hopkins' point that the technology planned for PR must be discussed and understood before deciding where the plant is to be situated. Looking at the pictures and reading the data of each of the communities gives some idea of the standards of treatment available and the footprint the plant will create. I really wonder what D&K thinks of PR's city administration and governance on the topic of WW treatment planning - given the company's track record as reflected on their website - and hearing Al Gibbs repeat 3X the other evening - "I'm just giving (telling) you what I was told to".
Look at the Salmon Arm plant write-up, for example - updated in 2005 and an award in 2006. There is a description of all sorts of sophisticated techie stuff. Note near the bottom of the write up there is a paragraph entitled Previous Stages of the Plant that begins in 1973 - which looks almost like what is planned for us now - an activated sludge plant using aerobic digestion and aerated lagoons for sludge storage. This was replaced in 1978 - and further revisions added in 1987, then again in 1995 and finally the award winning current plant completed in 2005.The info gleaned from looking at each of the different communities serviced by D&K emphasizes Noel Hopkins' point that the technology planned for PR must be discussed and understood before deciding where the plant is to be situated. Looking at the pictures and reading the data of each of the communities gives some idea of the standards of treatment available and the footprint the plant will create. I really wonder what D&K thinks of PR's city administration and governance on the topic of WW treatment planning - given the company's track record as reflected on their website - and hearing Al Gibbs repeat 3X the other evening - "I'm just giving (telling) you what I was told to".
Another interesting point Susan and I learned when we went over to CR to visit their plant was the poplar tree farm that has a satellite position to the WTP. The biosolid treatment basin is connected to the tree farm and is pumped over and distributed. This plan coincided with the Catalyst mills planning to use poplar trees - of course, that's caput. What has been discovered iin the meantime and isn't new info is that the biosolids contain a high copper content so natural forests cannot be grown. One idea the mgr told us about was the consideration of growing a rapeseed crop for biosolid fuel use - altho they are still studying what contributes to the copper content and how to resolve the problem.Andy Davis
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