October 13, 2017 Thestarnewspaper.Ca Greenall High School P3 Wastewater Answers
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Currently the town’s treatment service a population of 5,000. ork is progressing on Lums- process design engineer for Stantec, facility is a secondary system, the The cost of the project is about Wden’s new wastewater treat- said there are three main reasons for system removing the dissolved or- $20.3 million. ment facility — 70 per cent of the de- the new facility. The first is to meet ganic matter that escapes primary In July 2016 the federal and pro- tailed designs are complete and the increasingly stringent environmen- treatment. vincial governments announced project is expected to be tendered by tal regulation requirements. Munoz Through the new system, waste- funding for Lumsden’s new waste- the end of the year. noted the town of Lumsden is re- water will be directed to a new water facility. Lumsden residents had the chance quired to meet the same environ- main lift station. The main lift sta- Through the New Building Cana- to learn more about the progress of mental requirements as the City of tion will then pump the wastewa- da Fund’s Provincial-Territorial In- the project during an open house Regina. ter to the headworks building for frastructure Component for nation- held at the Lumsden Centennial Secondly, he recognized Lumsden screening and grit removal. The al and regional projects, both the Hall Sept. 28. Representatives from has outgrown the current system, grit will be sent to the landfill. Af- federal and provincial government engineering firm Stantec Consult- the lagoons having reached capac- ter screening, the wastewater flows are contributing about $6.8 million ing Ltd. and the Town of Lumsden, ity. to the sequencing batch reactors for each for the construction of the new including council, were on hand to “The town can no longer use [the] biological treatment, nitrogen and plant. talk the ins and outs of wastewater lagoons for treatment,” he said. phosphorous removed. Wastewater Phillips expressed gratitude for treatment. Munoz also noted the lagoon sys- will also be disinfected using a UV the funding. Councillor Rhonda Phillips ex- tem is too close to the community. reactor. While parents were learning more plained the purpose of the open Lumsden’s new treatment plant The new plant will allow the about the new treatment facility, house, which ran from 3-5 p.m. and would completely replace the la- town to meet the strict require- children also had the chance to co- 6-8p.m., was to give community goons. Munoz explained the la- ments to discharge effluent into the lour a picture created by Erin Par- members the chance to learn more goons would still be present but Qu’Appelle River. tridge, chair of the Lumsden and about the new plant and ask any no longer functional, and the new Solids that settle in the batch re- District Arts Council. 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They skip class. “If there are specific students we at Greenall High School and it has They’re scared of what people will can speak to, we do that and fol- inspired Kisis to start a movement say about them, so they’ll try to as- low up accordingly with appropri- called #wearingmyculture. similate to how everyone else acts ate consequences. We follow the During the last week of Septem- but they just can’t fit in.” mandate of Prairie Valley School ber, Haydar was sitting in his grade She said First Nations students Division (PVSD) to ensure our 9 history class. Students saw a pic- who live on a reserve and go to a learning environment is as inclu- ture of First Nations people fasting high school off a reserve find it hard sive and welcoming as possible for and his classmates laughed. Accord- to adjust. all students. Our core business is ing to Haydar, the teacher did not “We don’t know anything,” Kisis education, and while there will be stop them. said. She is from Muscowpetung consequences when necessary, we “It got me mad, angry and a little First Nation. “Everything we’ve will take a supportive, educational bit frustrated,” he said. known was on the reserve. We grew stance to ensure students under- Haydar said he was too shocked to up with welfare. We grew up with stand the effects of systemic racism, speak up in class. homes that don’t have sufficient and understand the effects of colo- This is not the only incident that supplies for a human being. In our nialism in Canada and this will be Kisis and other First Nations stu- houses, we have mould, we have addressed at the classroom level dents have experienced at school.