Water upgrades near completion at Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant [Video]

Residents in Regina and Moose Jaw will soon have better tasting water.

Renovations at the Buffalo Water Treatment Plant are almost complete.

“Part of the plant renewal project was to replace aging infrastructure, add resiliency, be more energy efficient. We want taste and odour control year round,” said Ryan Johnson, the President and CEO of the plant.

“We were changing how our gasses work and compared to a biological process. So during the construction commissioning stages, that’s where we are at right now is, they changed how they work. We’re just right now commissioning the gasses to be biological,” he added.

The not so pleasant taste and odour usually happens once a year during the summer months. It also happens during peak season of blue-green algae.

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The Buffalo Water Treatment Plant renovations are nearing completion. (Angela Stewart …