2025 Top 50 Water Projects Report - Report - Page 12
TOP 50 WATER PROJECTS 2025
WASTEWATER
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North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant Program
$3.86 billion
2024 Rank: 3
Location: District of North Vancouver, BC
Owner: Metro Vancouver
Program Management Consultant: Stantec
(Owner’s Engineer)
Engineer: AECOM (Design Consultant)
Contractor: PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc.
Architect: AECOM
Other Key Players: McElhanney (site surveyor);
Aon, INTECH (risk advisor); Hanscomb (independent certi昀椀er); Golder (WSP) (geotechnical
evaluations); Wood (WSP) (consulting and
environmental engineer, geotechnical studies/
materials tester); WSP (concrete evaluations)
Legal: Norton Rose Fulbright (counsel for
Metro Vancouver); Borden Ladner Gervais (legal
advisor for contractor); Stikeman Elliott LLP
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2030
THE NEW North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant will serve over
300,000 residents and businesses in the Districts of North and West
Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, and Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw
(Squamish Nation), and s lilw tał (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). It will
replace the existing Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant on the
North Shore, one of the last plants on the west coast of Canada and
the United States to provide only primary level wastewater treatment.
Building a new wastewater treatment plant that provides a higher level
of treatment is essential to comply with mandatory federal regulations.
It will also ensure the treated wastewater released into the marine
environment of the Burrard Inlet is much cleaner. •
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