Wastewater Treatment ProjectUpdate

May 15, 2013

Status

• Preliminary design complete

• Detailed design being finalised

• Public works relocated

• Site prep to begin late May

• Construction proper in June

• Completion for October 2014

PROJECT COSTS & FINANCING - Baseline Position -

Project Costs

2011-2012 Costs $1.0m

Contract price $21.3

PST $0.8

2013 -14 costs $1.3

Contingency $0.5

TOTAL COSTS $ 25.0

Funding AvailableSechelt Funding $ 8.9Sewer Treatment Reserves $4.9Sewer Treatment DCCs 1.5 Unrestricted Operating Surplus 2.5

Other governments $11.2Gas Tax Funding $8.0Building Canada Funding 3.2

Other sources $2.5Loan $2.5 Repay over 5 years using sewer reserve surpluses

FUNDING AVAILABLE $25.1

Why is it “so expensive”

• Because we are doing high level (“tertiary”) treatment

• This added about $5m to the cost

. . . However . . .

Why are we doing high level treatment?

• Enables widest range of options for reuse of water.

• 90% reduction in contaminant load to Trail Bay

• Avoids $3m outfall expansion

• In keeping with Federal and Provincial policies which encourage the use of reclaimed water

• Goal was set in Sechelt’s 2011 Sustainability Action Plan

Sustainability Action Plan

Other goals of the Plan;

• Reduce noise and smell to the greatest extent possible

• Pursue opportunities to recover resources from treated effluent

• Maximise energy efficiency, reduce water consumption

• Base infrastructure decisions on full life cycle costs

• Ensure that municipal infrastructure is integrated and energy efficient and has the lowest environmental impact possible.

Liquid Waste : “to treat effluent to the highest levels”

Proposal EvaluationProponent Location Tanks Operating

Cost (ranking)

Capital Cost*

Overall Ranking

Maple Reinders

Ebbtide Covered (greenhouse)

2 $21.3m 1

B Lot L Uncovered 3 $22.1** 2

C Lot L Covered 4 $26.8** 3

D Lot L Uncovered 5(highest cost)

$18.1** 4

E Ebbtide Enclosed in building

1(lowest cost)

>$30 5

* For comparison, all capital costs assume biosolids composting by Salish Soils

Need to add $3.2m of DoS costs to all bid prices to get the “Project Cost”

**Base bid, Lot L projects include new, relocated, odour controlled pump station at Ebbtide

Location of Ganges WWTP, Salt Spring Island

Questions?