City Wins Award

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City Chief Engineer, Dave Dyer, receives plaque from Mayor Colin Kinsley (Opinion250 photo)

Prince George, B.C. -  The City of Prince George is the recipient of an award for the environmental design aspects of the recent Hart/Nechako water supply improvement, from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C..

In announcing the award, Mayor Colin Kinsley says the project at Fishtrap Island involved the placement of the largest collector well in B.C. on the banks of the Nechako River, in addition to a new pump station and distribution line.

In the November/December issue of APEGBC'S Innovation magazine (click here for link), highlighted the City's award and noted that the project included the most exhaustive and comprehensive environmental review and planning process ever performed in Prince George.  There were 12 different government agencies that had to be satisfied with over 18 months of environmental assessment work.

Kinsley says the system has the capacity to withdraw 12-hundred-litres of sub-service water per second, or 20.5-million gallons per day.  The station delivers water to a reservoir for use in the city’s Nechako bench and Hart areas and serves approximately 15-thousand city residents.  "It currently draws only half its capacity, allowing the City redundancy to facilitate maintenance on two existing 30-year-old wells and, also, provides the City with population growth capacity well into the future."

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