Items tagged: Metro Vancouver

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Another Milestone for Seymour-Cap Project

April 20, 2011 - 9:08 am

Metro Vancouver’s contractor completed tunnel boring work last week on the twin tunnels that will convey Capilano source water to and from the regional district’s new Seymour-Capilano Filtration Plant. Last fall, two rock-slicing tunnel boring machines finished work on two parallel tunnels. The...

Categories: News, Western Canada

Team Wins Synergy Award for Phosphorus Recovery

November 3, 2010 - 9:03 am

Donald Mavinic of the University of British Columbia, and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., Stantec Consulting Ltd., Metro Vancouver, EPCOR Water Service Inc., and Clean Water Services Ltd., have won a 2010 Synergy Award for developing an efficient phosphorus recovery technology. Awarded...

Categories: National, News

Tap Rap

June 18, 2010 - 8:57 am

Expect more later, but here's a quick gem from yesterday's Canadian Water Summit: Jane Comeault, sustainability strategist for Metro Vancouver, spoke as part of the day's final panel entitled Half-Full: Our Water Future. Regarding stakeholder engagement and public education, she said: "We need to...

Categories: Blog

Seymour-Cap Plant Now Open

May 12, 2010 - 6:19 am

The largest water filtration plant in Canada has officially opened in Metro Vancouver. “This project has not only made metro Vancouver a leader in water filtration technology, it has created an estimated 800 jobs during the construction process," said Naomi Yamamoto, B.C.’s Minister of State...