Clinton News-Record, 1974-03-28, Page 17Featuring special rubber lined holding ponds, the new Ctinton sewage plant on Victoria
Terrace is nearly in full operation. An open house for the $800,000 structure will be held in
Juno. (News-Record photo)
'CONGRATULATIONS
to
Clinton
PUC
on their
60th
Anniversary'
KEARNEY4NATIONAL (CANADA) LIMITED
Subsidiary of WiE Kearney.Nationai inc.
P. SOX ILIZASETH ST., GUELPH, ONT.
CONGRATULATIONS
AND
GOOD LUCK
IN THE FUTURE
TO THE
CLINTON P C
2A-01100N NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1974
Sewage :system newest of utilities
OY 4Apoz RANDS
The youngest of. Clinton's
three utilities managed by the '
Clinton Public Utilities Cont-
Mission is, the sewage system,
It is a very important utility in'
that it makes for a better town
and it gives a builder a good
reason for building in the town,
The Town Council in 1946
decided to have a sewer system
built in Clinton and engaged an
engineer to make a set of plans
and specifications for a system
to suit the needs of the town.
This done, tenders were
called and in 1947, a sewer
,system was installed in Clin-',
ton.
The sewage system is like a
waterworks system, in that a
very large part of it is buried
underground. At the present
time there -is around 14 or 15
miles of sewer mains and some
1,100 laterals or services of
varying lengths, none of which
can be seen.
In 1948, ,the Public Utilities
was given the job of managing
this system and also the job of
collecting part of the sewer,
money on the water accounts.
The good town people were
very lucky in getting a sewer
system installed at that time
because a large amount of the
debentures money was
borrowed at 2 1/2 per cent in-
terest, a great difference to the
present days as we are finding
out. These debentures were all
paid off in 1966.
By this time also in 1967 and
1968, the Ontario Water
Resources Commission was
writing some very "infor-
mative" letters to the town
Council about increasing the
size of the treatment plant and
sewage pump house,
By the ,spring of 1969, the
Council was beginning to get
some action and the engineer
started to draw up some ideas,
and by 1970, had some
proposed plans before the
Council.
This Seemed to drag on bet-
ween Water Resources,
engineers ' and Town Council,
but in 1972, some very good
plans were set up on a complete
new sewage pump house and
sewage treatment plant.
These plans were followed
and the Town now has a com.
pletely new sewage pump house
and sewage treatment plant
which at the present time is
operating in the stages of get-
ting all the bugs out of the
equipment,
The Clinton sewage system
consists of (as mentioned
before) a large amount of sewer
pipes buried in the streets from
five to 20 feet deep. There is
the pumphouse in the westerly
part of the Town on Osborne
Street which is, now all new,
with much larger pumps than
the original pumphouse had.
About half of the sewage
from the Town flows by gravity
to this pumphouse and is pum-
ped by automatically controlled
pumps through a force main on
North Street to Dunlop Street,
along Dunlop Street to King
Street and along,King Street to
a short distance south of the
Canadian National Railway
track, from there it flows by
gravity to the sewage treatment
plant.
The pumphouse was
, necessary because of the dif-
ferent levels or falls in' the
Town of Clinton. One part of
Clinton falls to the west and
the other part falls to the
south. Therefore, a sewer
could not be designed
economically to flow by gravity
from all parts of the town to
one point.
The sewage treatment plant
is situated near the south boun-
dary of Clinton on Victoria
Terrace. This is where all the
sewage is received eventually.
This new treatment plant is a
very large, sophisticated com-
plex of tanks, control rooms,
pipes, valves, pumps and elec-
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The new treatment plant is a
very much larger complex than
the old plant was but it does
the same thing in a much more
thorough way and it has a
much larger capacity.
,The sewage is made up of
over, 90 per cent water and a
large part of this water is
cleared of all waste material
and purified by the plant action
till it looks like spring water.
It is then chlorinated before it
leaves the plant, All the soli
waste is digested or broke
down as it passes through the
plant and is called sludge whe
it is ready to be taken out a
the end of the process, This
a fairly thick, black substanc
that contains enough wale
that it can be pumped readily,
It is pumped into a large tank
on a truck and taken out to far-
mland where it -is spread over
the land as a very good fer-
tilizer.
If it were processed and dried
as it is in some of the large
plants, you would be buying it
from the stores in fancy paper
bags with a fancy name on
them and you would be using it
as fertilizer for your flower
beds and garden,
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