$1 Billion Wastewater Plant Upgrade Leverages Modern Solutions David Horton | Victaulic Across North America, population booms are putting pressure on the capacity limitations of aging municipal wastewater treatment plants. Local municipalities must decide to either build additional facilities or expand existing ones to address growing demand for wastewater services and clean water. As the largest city in Alberta, Canada, Calgary is home to 1.3 million residents 16 JUNE 2022 | UCONonline.com and is considered one of Canada's fastest-growing municipalities. Originally built in the 1930s, Calgary's Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant is one of the largest biological nutrial removal plants in Canada and the largest wastewater treatment plant serving the area. Despite efforts over the years to increase treatment capacity through upgrades, Bonnybrook's existing infrastructure was under-equipped to meet the needs of Calgary's rapidly expanding population. In 2014, the local municipal government committed to investing more than $1 billion to renovate and expand Bonnybrook's capacity to approximately 1.4 million citizens by 2024. Work on phase 1 of the Plant D expansion, the largest component of the Bonnybrook Expansion Program, beganhttp://www.UCONonline.com