Coaldale celebrates upgrades to Wastewater Treatment Facility

Oct 14, 2022 | 10:41 AM

COALDALE, AB – The Town of Coaldale celebrated a significant infrastructure upgrade this week.

On Thursday, October 13, 2022, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held in the town to mark the grand re-opening of the updated wastewater treatment facility.

The facility was initially built in 1970 as a conventional lagoon and then upgraded to an aerated lagoon in 1984. It was last updated in 2005, when it received substantial aeration and liner enhancements.

The town stated that with the adoption of new wastewater effluent regulations by the federal government over the last decade, combined with the need to expand Coaldale’s current facility to accommodate future growth, upgrading the site was a high priority.

Jason Siemens, Manager of Development Engineering for the Town of Coaldale said, “In the Town’s 2019 Infrastructure Master Plan, wastewater treatment upgrades were identified as essential not only for satisfying the latest provincial and federal regulations and legislation, but also, for accommodating future residential, commercial, and industrial growth.”

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Siemens added that in 2020, Coaldale secured about $4.4 million of provincial grant funding from the Alberta Water/Wastewater Partnership. That helped officials break ground on the facility upgrades in August of 2021.

Coaldale Mayor Jack Van Rijn said the upgrading project had two primary objectives.

He stated, “The first was to meet the latest wastewater effluent regulations adopted by both federal and provincial governments, and the second was to accommodate the next 20 years of residential and commercial growth in Coaldale.”

Van Rijn continued, “With both objectives now met, we can officially declare the project a success and Coaldale a place with the wastewater treatment infrastructure necessary to facilitate development, including continued growth in our industrial sector, for decades to come.”

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by Justin Goulet

Coaldale celebrates upgrades to Wastewater Treatment Facility

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