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Two Minutes in the Box
with the City:
The Importance of having a
Secondary Water Intake
After that, there wouldn’t be
anything left for the hospital,
schools, stores, or even your
house. Not only that, but it would
also mean that there wouldn’t be
By Francis Racine
any way of fighting fires either.
That is why the City of
Cornwall is currently working
on building a secondary water
n today’s world we can often intake for the water treatment
Itake certain important things plant.
for granted. Such is the case with
water. As you may have guessed,
it’s a pretty daunting task — so
We simply turn the tap and much so that it’s estimated that Rotary unites problem solvers around the globe behind one goal: to do more good. Our members are
driven to bring communities together to create lasting change. Connecting to make things better—
out comes water — hot or cold. the project might take about 10 that’s what people of action do. Contact Rotary Club of Cornwall at rotaryclubofcornwall@gmail.com
.
Yet it’s not by some miracle that years to complete.
we all have access to water. It’s
all thanks to the city’s intricate That’s because there needs to
water work system. be several steps undertaken to
make sure we get it right.
It all starts at a water intake
pipe that’s located next to the First and foremost are
R.H. Saunders Power Dam. Geotechnical, Natural Heritage
Water travels from Lake St. and Archaeological studies that
Lawrence through the pipe to the need to be undertaken on two
city’s water treatment plant. It sites that are being eyed — the
should be noted that it’s all done former Domtar site or an area
through gravity! near King Street.
From there it’s treated and then Regardless of which spot
distributed throughout the whole is chosen, the city will need Contact Lynn
city. to build a deep pumping
station of approximately 16 m to design your ads
There’s only one little issue — underground. That’s to make
this same intake pipe is 65 years sure that we minimize harm to
old!
aquatic plants and species as
You’ve read that right. The well as make sure that there is
issue at hand, as you may have always enough water to pump
guessed, is that if this same even at the St. Lawrence River’s
613-349-4694
intake pipe was to break or even lowest water level.
become clogged with ice, it To find more information
would leave our city with about about the project, visit cornwall. dillydesigns@eastlink.ca
six hours of water.
ca/water.
