Here’s a Quick Way to Improve Vancouver’s Water Quality
by Maggie Chandler on March 24, 2008
in Uncategorized
North Vancouver’s Capilano Creek was dammed in 1888.
This was two years after Vancouver was founded. “Former CPR surveyor George Alexander Keefer (1836-1912) (Keefer Street in Tinseltown) and his partners incorporated the Vancouver Waterworks Company. His nephew, George Henry Keefer, hiked up into the mountains of the North Shore looking for a suitable water source. He found is in a creek named Capilano, after the famous Squamish warrior.
Read the full story about Vancouver’s Waterworks Company.
The Seymour-Capilano Filtration Plant is slated to begin operating in late October and is costing $320 million. The water will be stripped of clay, silt and find organic debris that clouds our drinking water during the wettest days of the years. Click here for a map of the area.
The plant will treat water from the Seymour and the Capilano watersheds and will be Canada’s largest and will include the world’s largest ultraviolet disinfection works Our tap water isn’t filtered but is disinfected with chlorine.
John Meunier, a leader in water and waste-water treatment solutions has been hired by the GVRD.
Here is an overview of the City’s capital plan.
There are 1,450 kilometers of water mains in Vancouver and the City has a policy of replacing l% of its water system yearly, costing $11-12 million.
Looking forward to better quality drinking water.
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