Wastewater treatment is the process of removing or stabilizing elevated levels of nutrients and contaminants from wastewater. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove physical, chemical and biological nutrients/contaminants. It's objective is to produce an environmentally safe liquid (treated effluent) suitable for discharge to the natural environment and a solid waste (biosolids) suitable for reuse, typically as farm fertilizer.
The County of Brant operates four wastewater treatment facilities. The facilities are located in the communities of Paris, Cainsville and St. George and on Greens Road near the Brantford Airport.
Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Paris Water Pollution Control Plant - 120 Race Street
Rated Capacity = 7,056 m3/day
St. George Water Pollution Control Plant - 43 Victor Boulevard
Rated Capacity = 1,300 m3/day
Cainsville Lagoons - 30 Shaver Street
Rated Capacity = 250 m3/day
Airport Sanitary Treatment System - 36 Greens Road
Rated Capacity = 60 m3/day
Annual Reports
Below are the latest Wastewater Facility Annual Monitoring Reports for the 4 wastewater treatment facilities owned by the County of Brant.
Airport Sewage Treatment System 2021 Annual Report
Cainsville Lagoon System 2021 Annual Report
Paris Water Pollution Control Plant 2021 Annual Report
St. George Water Pollution Control Plant 2021 Annual Report
Pumping Stations
A pumping station is a component of the wastewater sewage collection system that conveys domestic and other suitable wastewater to a wastewater treatment facility. Wastewater flows through the sanitary sewers to the pumping stations by gravity and is collected in tanks. The wastewater fills the tank to a predetermined level, once the level is reached a pump(s) turns on to pump down the tank and convey the wastewater via a pressurized pipe (forcemain) to the downstream gravity sanitary sewer ultimately conveying the wastewater to the wastewater treatment facility.
The need for pumping sewage arises in the following situations:
- The existing topography causes sewers to become deep, a pumping station will allow to shallow the downstream sewers
- Sewage must be conveyed over a ridge (high point)
- Sewers are below the level of the receiving body of water
The County of Brant Paris sanitary sewer system consists of six sanitary sewage pumping stations. All stations are equipped with standby generators in case of power interruption.
Willow Street Sanitary Pumping Station
The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) is currently contracted by the County of Brant to operate the County-owned wastewater facilities.
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