Water Pollution Control Plant #2

In the early 1980's, an Engineer's report for Cobourg projected significant residential and industrial development in the east end of town.  In anticipation of this robust growth, the Town created the Lucas Point Industrial Park and constructed a new Sewage Treatment Plant within it in 1984.  In 1992, the capacity of the Lucas Point Plant (i.e. Plant #2) was doubled and a Sequence Batch Reactor (SBR) was added.  The SBR was installed to pre-treat leachate from the Town's Eagleson Landfill site.  The SBR was the first of its kind in Ontario at the time.  It was capable of treating 227 m³of leachate per day.  The pre-treatment was required to reduce the strength to the leachate and allow it to comply with the Town's Sewer Use Bylaw limits.

By comparison, even after the 1992 expansion, Plant #2 is much smaller than Plant #1.

Lucas Point Sewage Treatment Plant (Plant #2) specifications:

• Average hydraulic flows of 11,729 m³/day (2.6 MIG/day)
• Peak hydraulic flows of 36,364 m³/day (7.5 MIG/day)
 

General Information for Septic Waste Haulers

For a tour of our Water Pollution Control Plant #2,

Call Lori Depaepe at
905-372-7332.
Email: ldepaepe@cobourg.ca