As most Cranbrook residents are aware, an upgrade ($15,000000.00 +) to Cranbrook's waste water disposal system is in progress. Part of the upgrades include a plan to increase capacity. The system has been unable for quite some time to deal with the volume of Cranbrook's effluent. Conclusions of an Environmental Hearing dictated that improvements had to be made and a cost sharing agreement was put in place between federal, provincial and the local municipality. We do not know the cost of the Environmental Hearing to Cranbrook. Not all necessary upgrades will be achievable with the presently allocated funds.
A report on this project's progress is scheduled for the Administration Update at November 22nd at Monday's Council Meeting.
The system currently has settling ponds on the edge of town from where the effluent is pumped out to two storage ponds near Fort Steele before being sprayed on to the irrigation fields or in time of excess pumped into the Kootenay River. The irrigation fields can be seen on your left when driving towards Fernie. Part of the new plan required an additional third storage pond to be built with the ability to pump into the Kootenay River.
The system currently has settling ponds on the edge of town from where the effluent is pumped out to two storage ponds near Fort Steele before being sprayed on to the irrigation fields or in time of excess pumped into the Kootenay River. The irrigation fields can be seen on your left when driving towards Fernie. Part of the new plan required an additional third storage pond to be built with the ability to pump into the Kootenay River.
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| new effluent storage pond 3 in preparation, November 2010 |
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| effluent pipe to feed into pond 3, November 2010 |
Rolls of geomembrane which will be used to line the new storage pond. November 2010.The contents of storage pond 3 will be pumped into the Kootenay River via a buried pipeline.
A vent or vacuum break to the
underground pipe leading down to the Kootenay River, November 2010
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