Sewage Treament Plant

The sewage generated at Silver Star Mountain Resort is processed by a private company, Silverhawk Utilties Inc, a subsidiary of Waterworks Technologies. The plant screens and filters the incoming watewater, and processes it in a series of aerated lagoons and an exfiltration pond.

In essence, the sewage lagoons are the headwaters of both Vance Creek and Coldstream Creek. Both of these creeks are in community watersheds which supply drinking water to Vernon and rural Lumby.

 

Sewage treatment plant at Silver Star Mountain Resort

 

         Aerial view of sewage treatment plant and lagoons

 

                Chlorination unit for treating effluent for irrigation

 

 

                                 Aeration Pond #3

 

                         Aeration ponds #1 and #2

 

Pallets of Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) used for disinfecting effluent before irrigating Phase 1 and Phase 2 effluent irrigation areas

 

Exfiltration pond #4 at the start of excavation. Notice the excavator scraping the sides of the lagoon.

 

Exfiltration pond #4 being excavated. To see a video of the excavation, click here.