Items tagged: Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant

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World Wide Water

November 7, 2011 - 11:32 am

In 2010, Suncor Energy’s Edmonton refinery drew 50 per cent of its water from the City’s Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant, significantly reducing the amount of fresh water withdrawn from the North Saskatchewan River. When the arrangement was first made a few years prior, the case was largely an...

Categories: Features

Edmonton's Gold Bar Selects Houston Company for Upgrades

October 7, 2011 - 9:10 am

Edmonton's Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant has selected Houston-based Headworks Inc., a wastewater screening manufacturing, to replace some of its existing equipment. Located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, the EPCOR-owned Gold Bar plant handles the wastewater requirements for over...

Categories: News, Western Canada

Full Cycle

May 12, 2010 - 9:20 am

It may come as a surprise to some within the water industry, but the practice of water reuse and recycling has been around for about a century. Reclaimed water is former effluent water such as stormwater, greywater, and domestic wastewater that would have traditionally been disposed of, but instead...

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EPCOR Supports Decade of Action

March 19, 2010 - 10:54 am

As part of its effort to increase the public's understanding of water scarcity issues in Canada, EPCOR Utilities Inc. is supporting the United Nations' Water for Life program. For the next three years, the Canadian arm of the program will be called the EPCOR Chair in support of the United Nations'...

Categories: International, National, News, Western Canada

Gold Bar Now Owned and Operated by EPCOR

April 1, 2009 - 1:58 pm

EPCOR Utilities Inc. (EPCOR) officially became the owner and operator of the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant today. Edmonton City Council authorized the transfer of Gold Bar to EPCOR on January 21, 2009. The staff at Gold Bar (approx. 140 people) joins more than 600 other water professionals within...