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The Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre is a waste water treatment facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It provides secondary treatment to about 720,000 people.
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It is located at 800 Green Creek Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, and discharges to the Ottawa River. It was built in 1963 as a primary treatment plant, it was then later uprated to secondary treatment between 1988 and 1993.[1] At the time of the upgrade, the site was named after the then Commissioner of Works.
It is also one of Canada's largest wastewater treatment facilities.[2]
References
edit- ^ "City of Ottawa - Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre - Wastewater Treatment Plant". Ottawa.ca. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
- ^ "FCM - Study Tour: Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre". Fcm.ca. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
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