Located one hour south/west of Edmonton, A.B.

Cold Climate

Context

As existing infrastructure fails, many western Canadian cities, towns and hamlets are looking at investing into treatment of their sewage in new ways that are more environmentally sensitive.

Brazeau County, which oversees a town, a village, and a number of hamlets, is replacing their aging lagoon in Cynthia with a state-of-the-art Solar Aquatics system, complete with high efficiency building, heat recovery, and solar hot water.

Initially water will be re-used on site to start fruit trees and to supplement the fish pond. Future plans include a) selling reclaimed water to the oil and gas industries as frac water and b) accepting sludge and sewage from portable washrooms.

Potnetially, the sales of frac water and tipping fees could repay the cost of the SA facility in under ten years.

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