The Regional Municipality of Durham has completed a study which was conducted to identify a preferred site for a new Employment Area Sanitary Sewage Pumping Station (SSPS) in Port Perry.
The Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) was undertaken to meet the sanitary sewage servicing needs of the Port Perry Employment Area.
Its ambit was to:
- Assess the potential to service a portion of the Employment Area through existing infrastructure
- Identifying a preferred site for a new Employment Area SSPS
- Potential forcemain routes to convey wastewater to the Nonquon Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP), and
- Sanitary sewer routes for expansion of the existing Reach Street SSPS catchment area, to allow for existing non-serviced areas to be serviced and allow future growth of the Port Perry community
The study’s recommendation includes the following Schedule ‘B’ undertakings:
- Connect the eastern portion of the Employment Area to the existing Reach Street SSPS catchment area across Cawker’s Creek at either the southwest corner of Roseborough Drive or at Fifeshire Court, with the final location to be confirmed during detailed design;
- Construct a new Employment Lands SSPS (as shown on the map) on either the northwest corner of 1520 Reach Street or immediately west on 181 North Port Road, with the final location to be confirmed during detailed design;
- Establish a dual forcemain system along the eastern property line of 1595 Reach Street from Reach Street to the Nonquon WPCP.
The region said the new works will also include some undertakings that are exempt under the Environmental Assessment Act and were not part of this study, specifically: Reach Street SSPS upgrade and rerouting of the Reach Street SSPS forcemain system to connect into the new dual forcemain system.
