{"id":1303,"date":"2013-11-16T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T11:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2013-11-16T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T11:29:21","slug":"laval-wins-award-for-superior-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/laval-wins-award-for-superior-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval Wins Again for Superior Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laval wins five stars for water quality; Sainte Rose Manager wins North American recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month, the Pont-Viau and Sainte Rose water treatment plants won five stars for providing exceptional drinking water in 2012. This is the second time in a row the two plants won the highest honour a plant can get for providing safe drinking water to its community.<\/p>\n

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\u00a92013 Lino Cipresso
From left to right: James Chaffee, AWWA president; Claude Durivage Sainte-Rose Station Supervisor; Robert A. Dub\u00e9, R\u00e9seau Environnement president<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition, Sainte Rose Station Supervisor Claude Durivage was honoured with the 2013 George Warren Fuller Award, a North American honour.<\/p>\n

\u201cM. Claude Durivage works hard daily to make sure our Sainte-Rose station produces the highest possible standards of drinking water,\u201d says Denis Allard, superintendent of Laval\u2019s drinking water division. \u201cThis award recognizes M. Durivage\u2019s volunteer efforts within the North American waterworks community. He deserves this honour, and serves as a role model for all managers striving to improve water quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claude Durivage Wins George Warren Fuller Award<\/h3>\n

Durivage\u2019s new award is named after the man who built North America\u2019s first water filtration plant. It honours his volunteer work with Quebec\u2019s Programme d\u2019excellence en eau potable<\/i> (PEXEP) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA)\u2019s Partnership for Safe Water. He also got it because under his leadership, Sainte Rose became the first plant in Quebec to use two-step biological treatments. It was also Quebec\u2019s first plant to achieve the third phase of PEXEPs four-phase plant process optimization program, which it did in 2004.<\/p>\n

Point Viau Win Despite Ongoing Renovations<\/h3>\n

The Point Viau plant had to work hard to obtain five stars. A $400,000 million renovation that began in 2009 is still underway. Plant employees had to change their normal processes to achieve excellent water quality, but they succeeded.<\/p>\n

Laval Produces Video about Quality Drinking Water<\/h3>\n

To celebrate these honours and inform citizens about their renovation efforts, the city of Laval has created a video, which is available online at<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/NT77lxZVQTg<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, refer to:\u00a0http:\/\/www.laval.ca\/Pages\/Fr\/Citoyens\/eau-potable.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared on pages 1 and 14 in the Laval Edition of the Suburban on Wednesday, November 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Laval Won Award for Superior Drinking Water in 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

December 2012<\/p>\n

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Sainte-Rose Water Treatment Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Point-Viau Water Treatment Team<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Last month, the Pont-Viau and Sainte Rose water treatment plants won five stars for providing exceptional drinking water in 2011. The award honoured the plants\u2019 ability to provide high quality drinking water throughout the year while also improving operating procedures.<\/p>\n

Five stars are the highest award given by the Programme d\u2019excellence en eau potable<\/em> (PEXEP). PEXEP is the Quebec version of the Partnership for Safe Water from the American Water Works Association (AWWA). The two Laval plants joined two others in Central Quebec who also won.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo achieve five stars, the plants have to meet criteria that are three to six times more severe than Quebec regulation requires,\u201d says Denis Allard, superintendent of Laval\u2019s drinking water division. \u201cTo meet the five star requirements, everyone needs to follow the procedures and give ideas to improve every single step in the plant. That means the operators, the technicians in control, the supervisors, everyone. We\u2019re very proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sainte Rose plant employees have always worked hard to excel. Allard credits a former manager from the 1980\u2019s who helped equip the plant so that it was the first in Quebec to use two-step biological treatments, something that is now more common. Sainte Rose was also the first plant in Quebec to achieve the third phase of PEXEPs four-phase plant process optimization program, which they did in 2004.<\/p>\n

The Point Viau plant had to work even harder than normal to perform at the five-star level because the plant is still under a $400,000 million renovation that began in 2009. Almost half of the facilities are still demolished.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is 40% less production from that plant,\u201d said Allard. \u201cWe had to implement a new way to treat the water and it wasn\u2019t free. We spent a lot of time optimizing everything. We had to boost treatment to 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plant employees had to use polymers to ensure that sedimentation remained within the clarifiers during a radically increased flow and change the sequence of chemical use until they achieved the water quality they wanted. Their efforts will continue until the renovations are completed in 2014. By then, the current clarifiers will be obsolete.<\/p>\n

The PEXEP conference in Laval on October 23 and 24 also gave three stars to Laval\u2019s Chomedey plant and recognized plants in 12 other cities in Quebec. They include: Beauharnois, B\u00e9cancour, Dorval, Gatineau, L\u2019Assomption, Rivi\u00e8re-du-Loup, Rosem\u00e8re, Rouyn-Noranda, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Hyacinthe, Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and Victoriaville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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