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The final phase of Flin Flon's new multimillion-dollar sewage treatment plant has taken a big step forward with the pouring of concrete. The $9.4-million state-of-the-art treatment system adjacent to Boundary Ave. is expected to be operational in just over a year. This week, in the centre of a magnificent rock gorge behind the headworks building, workers are pouring concrete for the plant's UV Channel, which will utilize ultraviolet light to disinfect the sewage. By September 2005, a treatment plant will be erected within the canyon, which took a blasting crew a full month to create. The new plant is believed to be the only one in Western Canada that will utilize sequential batch reactors, which aerate the incoming waste. A modern sewage treatment plant had already spent years on the City's wish list when the first phase of the project, the installation of outflow piping, was completed in 1999. The second phase, the new headworks building, was realized in 2001. The project comes with a price tag of $9.4 million, with the City providing $3.76 million and the province the remainder. Flin Flon Director of Works and Operations Kevin Komarnicki said the new plant will be an "enormous step up" from its predecessor, as it will provide secondary treatment of sewage before it is released into the south end of Ross Lake. "It's going to be like night and day," he said. The construction site is clearly no place for children, and workers ask parents to ensure their kids do not play in this dangerous area.
