An overhaul of the Capital Regional District’s processing system for wastewater entailed the major investment of building the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant on a 3.5-acre oceanside site in Esquimalt.
There is also a new residual solids treatment facility at the Hartland landfill in Saanich, and 35 kms of piping that carries wastewater between the facilities.
McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Capital Regional District)
This wastewater treatment plant can treat 108 million litres of wastewater per day equivalent to 43 Olympic-sized swimming pools to a tertiary level, which is one of the highest levels of treatment available and exceeds regulatory requirements.
Prior to the construction of the new facilities, the release of 40 billion litres of raw sewage into the strait every month has long been a sticking point in the relations between British Columbia and Washington State, with the untreated waters flushing southwards through the strait and into Pug