Hart Now Has Best Air and Best Water

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New state of the art pumps that will provide fresh clean soft water to the Hart

The tests are over, the new Fish Trap pumping station is up and running. 

Pulling water from an aquifer under the Nechako River, this pumping station is proving the Hart region with water of superior quality.  "There is no iron, no manganese, and  it is so pure there is absolute minimum chlorination needd" says Bob Radloff, head of   With the City of Prince George.

The new system took two years to build at an overall cost of $15.5 million dollars.  That includes the boost station half way  up Foothills Boulevard.

Radloff says while residents may notice the odd time of silt or dark colored water, that type of occurance will happen less and less as the entire system is flushed out with the new water.

The two pumps can  pump a total of 65 hundredgallons of wter per minute.  If two more pumps are added ( there is room) the entire system is capable of pumping  20 million gallons of water per day.

That, says Radloff, makes it one of the largest wells in North America.  "It could produce enough water to look after the entire city 2 and half times over" says Radloff.

Hart residents  will not only notice softer, clearer, better tasting water,  come next spring they won’t have to go the route of the"enhanced sprinkling restrictions".  There will be enough water to sprinkle on the same schedule as other city residents.

"This is not just great news for the City" said Mayor Colin Kinsley "Its especially good news for the people of the Hart who have waited since amalgamation for improvements to their water supply."

The aquifer is about 100 feet below the river bottom. Water goes through a natural cleansing process as it goes through a hundred feet of gravel.  "We have already had some interest from the City of Kamloops which would like to install something similar" says Radloff.  Kamloops cost though would be  more than three times higher as there are bacterial challenges in the Thompson River.

The old pump station, in the North Meadows subdivision, will be moth-balled and used as a back up.

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