2025 Top 50 Water Projects Report - Report - Page 18
TOP 50 WATER PROJECTS 2025
WASTEWATER
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Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment
Plant Expansion • $2 billion
THERE ARE over 20 projects planned as part of the onsite improvements of
the Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. Key improvement projects
include new trickling filters, secondary clarifiers, and a co-generation
facility to make better use of green energy captured on site. Detailed
design of the remaining Phase 2 Final Works is underway with construction
anticipated to commence in 2026. A new digester and biosolids dryer have
been added to the expansion program. •
2024 Rank: 7
Location: Delta, B.C.
Owner: Metro Vancouver
Construction Manager: Hatch (outfall
project); CDM Smith (Overall Construction
Coordination)
Contractors: Phase 1 Substantially Complete;
Maple Reinders Inc. (Phase 2 Gravity Thickeners and Aeration Tanks Retro昀椀t); Bennett
Mechanical Installations (Phase 2 Digester
Heat Exchangers Upgrade); Pomerleau-Bessac
General Partnership (outfall pipeline); Graham
Engineers: Brown and Caldwell, Klohn Crippen
Berger, CDM Smith, WSP (Stage 5 expansion);
CDM Smith, WSP (materials engineering and
testing); Golder (WSP) (outfall); Wood (WSP)
(consulting engineer/geotechnical studies
& materials tester); McMillen Jacobs, Arup
(design architect); EXP (geotechnical); Hatch
(tunnel design review and outfall construction
management); Colliers Project Leaders; Jacobs;
CDM Smith; Associated Engineering (project and
construction management/sta昀昀 augmentation);
Envirowest (environmental); McElhanney
(consulting); Victaulic (supplier); E.S. Fox
Legal: Norton Rose Fulbright (for Metro
Vancouver)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: (Phase 2 Early
Works) 2025; (Outfall) 2025; (Phase 2 Final
Works) 2032
DRINKING WATER
8
Coquitlam Water Main Project
$1.66 billion
2024 Rank: 10
Location: Cities of Coquitlam and Port
Coquitlam, BC
Owner: Metro Vancouver
Construction Manager: Stantec
Contractors: Michels Canada
Engineers: Jacobs-WSP
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2026 pre-build,
early 2030s overall water main
METRO VANCOUVER is constructing a new water main in the City of
Coquitlam to optimize the capacity of the existing Coquitlam water supply
system and to meet the growing demand for drinking water in the region
with the eventual expansion of the source supply under the Coquitlam
Lake Water Supply Project. The Coquitlam Water Main is approximately 12
kilometres long, and ranges in diameter from 2.2 to 3.2 metres. The water
main is being constructed in four sections. Construction of the first prebuild section is underway. This water main is one of a number of drinking
water infrastructure projects Metro Vancouver is constructing in the City of
Coquitlam over the next two decades. •
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WATER C AN ADA’S TOP 50 WATER PRO JEC T S
WAT E R C A N A D A . N E T
