Britannia Water Treatment Plant by the Numbers: Annually, the plant is designed to: Treat four billion litres of mine water. Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant Project Details. The Britannia Mine water treatment plant will be designed, built, financed and operated as a partnership, and is part of a larger clean up effort being managed by the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management (MSRM). Britannia Beach is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 55 kilometres north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound.It has a population of about 300. 2 Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Whistler Vancouver Britannia Beach Britannia Mine. The end-result has been a successful turnaround. 61 p. Prepared for the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection. Prepared for the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection. This set of source documents covers the period from compliance to being a significant pollution point in North America. MASc. Life has returned to the waters surrounding the mine, including Howe Sound. It collects all water coming from the mine.

Water Treatment Plant ¾Treat mine water and groundwater ¾Design capacity - 1,050m3/hr Hydraulic capacity - 1,400m3/hr ¾Province opted for a Design-Build-Finance-Operate (DBFO) contract in a Public Private Partnership: Single entity responsible to design, build, operate and finance plant Lastly, the EPCOR Water Treatment Plant was constructed in 2005 – a plant that uses the same treatment principles as the original proposal made by Anaconda before the Mine closed. Britannia Mine Remediation Project Assessment of Costs and Liabilities at Beginning of Project and at Current Time Barry Azevedo, PEng. Remove approximately 600,000 kilograms of heavy metal contaminants such as aluminum, zinc and cadmium – including enough copper to make 70 million pennies.

Figure 3 – Britannia Mine Post-Mining Conditions; Figure 4 – Britannia Mine Necessary Pollution Prevention Measures; The Britannia Mine site is being remediated by the provincial government. Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant Feasibility Study. It includes the nearby Britannia Creek, a small to mid-sized stream that flows into Howe Sound that was historically one of North … Remediation efforts are on the site’s water treatment plant for treating the acid mine drainage to remove metals before discharging into the environment. November, 2002. The private partner is EPCOR Water Services Inc (EPCOR). Environmental Remediation A further step was taken with EPCOR's water treatment plant in 2005. Britannia, British Columbia 2005 Agreement for developing a treatment plant to treat contaminated water flowing from the Britannia Mine site with a new acid rock drainage treatment plant. Government to clean up the mine water.

EPCOR Suite 215 10451 Shellbridge Way Richmond, BC, V6X 2W8 INTRODUCTION EPCOR began construction of the Britannia Mine high density lime sludge plant in February 2005, and the plant was treating Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) by October 21, 2005, beginning a twenty-year design build finance … Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant: Environmental Compliance and Risk Transfer in a Collaborative Partnership Brian Clarke, Director Crown Contaminated Sites Program Ministry of Agriculture and Lands David Rector General Manager, Operations EPCOR BC/Pacific Northwest. Project Description: Clean up the contaminated water flowing from the Britannia Mine site with a new acid rock drainage treatment plant. Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant Discovery Center Partnerships British Columbia—Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant In March 2005, along with our partners, we signed an agreement with the B.C. Britannia Mine was once the largest producer of copper in the British Empire. BRITANNIA MINE WATER TREATMENT PLANT: THE FIRST YEAR OF OPERATIONS C. Madsen, M.Sc. For a more in-depth look at Britannia's environmental story, see "The Facts About Britannia's Environment".