Expansion a priority as Lethbridge wastewater treatment plant nears capacity

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The City of Lethbridge’s wastewater treatment plant is nearly at capacity as close to 30 million litres of water is treated every day.

The City of Lethbridge's wastewater treatment plant is seen in this photo taken on June 4, 2024.

“We have plans to expand to 40 million litres a day and higher strength wastewater and that's going to tens of millions of dollars.”Kaupp says the process is all natural and the water is cleaned to regulation before being released into the Oldman River. “If it’s low enough then our impact on the environment increases and it’s harder on the fish if the river was half or a third of the flow that we expect.”“One of the things the wastewater industry as a whole is frustrated with is our wipes with the word ‘flushable’ on the container,” he said.

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