Vancouver Picks AECOM-Jacobs JV for Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades

The Metro Vancouver Regional District chosen Fraser Delta Group, a three way partnership of AECOM Canada Ltd. and Jacobs Consultancy Canada Inc., to supply design and engineering providers for its $7-billion Iona Island Wastewater Remedy Plant improve undertaking in British Columbia, the contractors introduced Nov. 25.

Metro Vancouver plans to improve and develop its current plant, which was inbuilt 1963. It presently processes about 200 billion liters of wastewater annually and serves about 750,000 individuals. Native officers have projected that it’ll serve greater than 950,000 individuals by 2051. 

“Within the midst of elevated demand fueled by inhabitants progress, extra stringent regulatory discharge necessities and the necessity for operational efficiencies, new and progressive methods of increasing wastewater system capability proceed to emerge,” mentioned Katus Watson, senior vice chairman at Jacobs, in a press release. 

The undertaking would rework the Canadian plant from a main to a tertiary remedy facility with the aim of bettering the standard of water within the surrounding Salish Sea and close by Fraser River, which has the most important salmon inhabitants in British Columbia. 

The upgrades are additionally deliberate to permit the plant to get better reclaimed water for non-potable makes use of, and to seize biogas to make use of for producing warmth on the plant and supplying pure fuel for utility FortisBC’s distribution system. Enhancements on the plant web site would additionally present safety from earthquakes and sea stage rise. 

The JV group beforehand accomplished a report on the undertaking for Metro Vancouver and is presently main a pilot program testing new applied sciences for the primary part of upgrades. That first part is deliberate to be full by 2027.

“All water has worth and will be recovered and revitalized,” Watson mentioned. “That is crucial to delivering this transformational improve to Metro Vancouver’s wastewater remedy and retaining native communities and coastal waters wholesome for years to come back.”

Metro Vancouver can be planning some associated work, together with building of a barge berth to remove the necessity for building materials supply by truck. Officers haven’t but chosen a location for the berth. Metro Vancouver can be planning upgrades to the causeway linking Iona to Sea Island, resembling shoreline restoration, highway enhancements and building of a greenway path for cyclists and pedestrians. 

The plant is scheduled to turn out to be operational in 2035, and officers plan to finish different related building and ecological restoration by 2038.