WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

PLANT OVERVIEW LOOKING EAST

Nagi Rizk, Manager Engineering, City of Powell River, Wastewater Treatment Plant, gave a detailed progress report through a Power Point presentation to a recent February meeting.

This is the largest project ever undertaken in the history of the community, costing some $99,000,000. 

For many years the city has been out of compliance with its current wastewater treatment plant located near the ferry terminal in Westview.

The new plant will consolidate the three current ones including Townsite and Wildwood. 

Nagi shared some facts including that 4,000 loads of soil were removed from the new building site located in proximity of the old golf course. Some 7,000 cubic metres of concrete were used for the foundations. And a situation with a nesting bird caused construction to halt for three months. 

The plant is now 90% complete and testing with fresh water is taking place.

More information is available from a recent story in The Peak. https://www.prpeak.com/local-news/wastewater-plant-update-provided-to-city-of-powell-river-council-6463991

Nagi grew up in Cairo and became a Canadian landed immigrant in 1988.

He is married to Nancy (Ogden) from Powell River who he met in Toronto.

After challenging his P. Eng exams here in 1995, he started his own consulting company. He and his family have lived in California, in the San Juaquin Valley and Bay area specialising in FEMA projects. They also lived in Cranbrook and Lake Cowichan before moving back to Powell River in 2018 to accept a position with the city.