Clarkson Wastewater Treatment Plant Print


March 27, 2009 - Daily Commercial News

Outfall tunnel makes way for more housing in Mississauga and Peel Region

DAN O’REILLY

A $23.5-million, 2.2-kilometre-long outfall tunnel is being installed deep below the waters of Lake Ontario at the Clarkson Wastewater Treatment Plant in Mississauga, so that houses and apartments can be built in the city and other parts of Peel Region.

 

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Belle River Print

September 17, 2009 - Daily Commercial News

RON STANG

Gleaming new PVC watermains should spell the end of rust-coloured water in the Windsor, Ont.-area municipality of Lakeshore.

FOCUS: Sewer and watermain

Lakeshore, Ontario trades in cast iron for PVC watermains

LAKESHORE, Ont.

Lakeshore Mayor Tom Bain smiles when he recalls showing taxpayers a cutaway from an old cast iron pipe — part of the town’s aged water system — thick with encrusted rust.

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Burloak Raw Water Intake Print

Canadian Consulting Engineer. January/February 2010

Burloak Raw Water Intake

By combining marine pipeline with a tunnel, the design-build team for an intake from Lake Ontario to Oakville made construction easier and faster.

By: R.V. Anderson Associates


Originally, plans for a new water intake to feed the Burloak Water Purification Plant in Oakville, west of Toronto, called for a tunnel to be excavated for the entire distance between the intake site and the plant.

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