Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant

The Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant is located approximately thirty kilometres northeast of the City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on Highway No. 301, seventeen kilometres north of the intersection with Highway No. 1. The Plant was commissioned in 1955 and provides safe, high quality drinking water to its customers. The Plant has undergone three major capacity and process improvements since its original construction and now has a rated production capacity of 205 Million Litres per Day. The Plant was one of the pioneers in the use of the GAC (Granular Activated Carbon) filtration process for the removal of algae-produced taste and odour.

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Buffalo Pound: Two thumbs up

Buffalo Pound Water Treatment assures safe, clean drinking water

By MARTIN CHARLTON COMMUNICATIONS 

Water is a crucial element for all living things.

The majority of Canadians have access to clean and safe drinking water, made possible by water treatment plants where raw water is made safe to drink through a series of specialized processes before made available to the public.

But what happens if that water supply is contaminated, say, by a potentially lethal virus like COVID-19?

The buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant, commissioned in 1955, is one of the largest, most important and most sensitive components of the province’s water infrastructure.

With a rated capacity of 205 million litres per day and supplying safe drinking water to approximately 260,000 customers in Regina and Moose Jaw, the plant is too big to fail.

“We’re not only critical, but we’re also an essential service. We cannot fail,” said Ryan Johnson, P.Eng., general manager at the buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant. “We cannot be in a position where we cannot supply water to one quarter of the provincial population.”

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Plant Renewal Project

The Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Corporation is pleased to announce the awarding of the design services for the Plant Renewal Project to a Joint Venture consisting of Graham Infrastructure Inc. and AECON Water Infrastructure Inc.

Three consortia were short-listed to prepare proposals in response to the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant Renewal Request for Proposals.

The process used to select the winning consortium, which began with the issuance of the Request for Qualifications in October of 2018, was rigorous and detailed, enabling the Corporation to select the consortia most aligned with the project goals.