Water Treatment Plant
Upgrade & Systems Integration

To provide clean drinking water and meet the needs of a growing population, the City of Laval, Quebec upgraded its three water plants as part of a life cycle project.

Improvements were made to the filtration and disinfection efficiency and to the pumping and automation systems to ensure greater control over the water treatment processes.

Project

Filtrum Construction was awarded the $9 million contract for upgrades to one of the three facilities, the Sainte-Rose water treatment plant (110 000 m3 /day). As specialists in mechanical process, electricity and process control systems, Filtrum was tasked with the complex integration of systems over the 22-month project. One of the biggest challenges during the planning and execution was to keep the plant running, which was particularly crucial given that it supplies a local hospital.

SCOPE

The scope of Filtrum’s work was extensive and included: installation of an advanced ozone generator, a new electrical service entrance (4 000 amps), an upgrade to a more sophisticated SCADA system with a thin client architecture and reinforcing structures to house new equipment. Most of the mechanical engineering, automation and electrical work was completed by Filtrum’s in-house staff of engineers, technicians, programmers, pipe fitters and electricians. Download PDF (293 KB)