Ravensview Wastewater Treatment Plant - Kingston, Ontario
Posted by: mTn_biKer65
N 44° 14.682 W 076° 25.236
18T E 386573 N 4900032
Ravensview Water Treatment Plant is located south of Highway 2, along the St. Lawrence River, approximately 4.5 km east of the Cataraqui River.
Waymark Code: WMDKD2
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 01/25/2012
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Originally constructed in 1957, and upgraded in the mid '70s and early '90s, and the most recent upgrades below completed in 2009.
The facility upgrades include:
Modifications to the existing screening, degritting, and primary settling facilities to improve performance and enhance plant automation.
New primary effluent pumping station to pump the primary effluent to a new secondary treatment process.
New 11-cell Biological Aerated Filter (BAF) facility for secondary treatment.
New primary digester operating at 55C (thermophilic) and an enclosed digester gallery to service the digester complex.
New cogeneration facility which will utilize biogas to produce electricity and heat.
New sludge dewatering facility with two new large-capacity centrifuges.
New indoor sludge storage facility operating under negative pressure and equipped with an odour treatment system.
Modifications to the existing administration building to incorporate a new control centre, boiler room and related facilities.
New 44 kV high-voltage feed to site and site wide electrical upgrades.
Various upgrades to the plant's automation and control system to improve operation interface and facilitate process optimization.