Following EPCOR’s annual Community Day event on September 7 in Edmonton, Alberta, the general public will have access to three guided tours inside the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant. But it’s the self-guided tour signage added to the facility’s perimeter fencing last fall that continues to attract attention as an educational hike.
The walking trail around the facility now has eight detailed graphical signs, each one featuring a specific process within the wastewater treatment facility. The eight educational stops include: 1. What is wastewater? 2. What causes odour at Gold Bar? 3. How do we measure air quality? 4. What is in these basins? 5. What happens to solids in wastewater? 6. Protecting the Watershed. 7. What’s coming out of this outfall? 8. Adapting to Climate Change.
QR codes on the self-guided tour’s signage allow curious walkers to scan the signs to learn even more about the wastewater treatment process at the plant, which opened in 1956.
“The interpretive signage was installed last year in September and set up as a self-guided tour that enables folks to explore the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant’s innovative processes at their own time and pace,” explained a spokesperson for EPCOR.
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At the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant Community Day event, tours inside the facility are available at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m.
The Community Day event at Gold Bar Park will also feature family-friendly games and snack bags filled with local goodies from Good Goods Co.
The wastewater treated at the facility is released into the North Saskatchewan River.
The facility is currently rehabilitating and upgrading digester #4, used to treat the solids from the primary treatment process.
