Toronto 2025: Upgrades needed at water treatment plant as city grows
The Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant is Toronto's largest sewage treatment site, but the mega-facility will need improvements to keep up with population growth.
Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant currently serves some 1.5 million people
About 10 swimming pools worth of wastewater pass through the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant every hour.
While that’s a lot of sewage, that number could be far higher by 2025, when the city’s population could exceeed 6.5 million.
Frank Quarisa, Toronto’s wastewater director, said the city knows there will be a lot more toilets flushing in its future, and so almost every part of the Beaches-area mega-facility is set to be improved in the coming years.
The CBC’s Natalie Kalata got a tour of the plant, the city’s largest, to learn more about the city’s plans.
For more on the challenges that facility, and the city is facing when it comes to increased growth, check out the video above.