{"id":5248,"date":"2021-01-05T23:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?page_id=5248"},"modified":"2021-01-05T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:47:08","slug":"uplands-park-wwtf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/wwtf\/uplands-park-wwtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Uplands Park WWTF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uplands Park Wastewater Treatment Facility – here the effluent enters an open, fenced wetland.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the sampling run on oct 2, 2020, I visited the area of the Uplands Park Waste Water Treatment Facility<\/a> (UPWWTF). I was impressed with what I saw, especially that it had tertiary treatment. (Sewage going into Bedford Basin\/Halifax Harbour gets secondary treatment at best<\/a>.) After the crud is removed (primary treatment)\u00a0 and a lot of the organic matter is broken down (secondary treatment), and the water goes through a UV system to kill pathogens, there is still a step to remove nutrients: it goes through a fenced off marsh (it could be a “constructed wetland” or partially constructed wetland, or totally natural marsh, I am not sure which) to remove nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.\u00a0 That’s important because\u00a0 there are very high levels of nutrients in sewage effluent that could make a downstream lake\u00a0 – in this case Sandy Lake – go ‘skunky’ with algal blooms and the like.<\/p>\n

View Photo Album: Sandy Lake: Wetlands and Riparian areas to W & SW Oct 2, 2020 PART III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the sampling run on oct 2, 2020, I visited the area of the Uplands Park Waste Water Treatment Facility (UPWWTF). I was impressed with what I saw, especially that it had tertiary treatment. (Sewage going into Bedford Basin\/Halifax Harbour … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5244,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5248\/revisions\/5254"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}