Expanded Emergency Overflow Ponds Now Functional

The new, expanded Emergency Overflow Pond is now functional, doubling our storage capacity of waste from 7,000 cubic meters to 14,000 cubic meters. The new Overflow Pond is just South of the existing pond and acts as another layer of protection to our water way.

The Emergency Overflow Pond reduces the risk of untreated waste flowing into the Stoney Creek during a major storm event.

Our South Lift Station is a small building but major player in our waste water treatment system. It breaks down and then pumps waste water from the City up to the lagoons to be treated. A major storm may cause flow rates that are faster than the South Lift Station can pump, so the Overflow Ponds capture that flow until a time that the water can be processed and pumped through the South Lift Station.

The Ponds may contain waste water during or following a major storm event so we ask the public to avoid the ponds and to not let pets drink from the ponds. This is just one way our new Waste Water Treatment Plant upgrade is protecting the Stoney Creek, and the overall Battle River Watershed, today and how we are doing our part to ensure we have clean drinking water for future generations.