Calgary Sewage Treatment

Shaw TV, Science Steve Kelly takes an inside look at the Bonnybrook sewage treatment plant in Calgary, Alberta.


The City of Calgary collects all the wastewater that comes out homes, schools, businesses, car washes in a sanitary sewer system. The wastewater flows through a pipe system fed mostly by gravity although some is pumped. Eventually it arrives at the Bonnybrook waste water plant. After filming this story TV Cameraman Matt Cook and I spent three days off work during which time we made our own generous donations to the treatment plat.

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[minalobudeshte]

yes the americans use a funny and complicated system, miles, foot, feet, gallons etc... SI is much better so i recommend them to change to it

[icovada]

25 feet deep, 80 meterst across. PICK ONE SYSTEM AND STICK TO IT

[LOCOboiz]

You can actually taste the shit in your mouth

[modernhumble]

mmm...condoms 1:28

[raptorjaysus]

toured that... worst smell i've ever had in my nose

[alucard1931]

mmm... soup!

[garycalgary]

when i did a tour of this in '95 i saw tons of condoms

[ilovestorms2]

Holie shit

[RainMan34]

Don't you mean 'cool corn'?

[dc6226]

coool bananas

[ReikiH]

Actually he said 25ft in depth and I put the wrong numbers in anyways so.. more like 10MG per tank.

[ReikiH]

80 metres in feet is about 262.5 feet.

(.785)(80ft)(80ft)(12ft)=60,28­8 cubic feet times 7.48 gallons in a cubic foot.. 450,954 gallons about .451 Million Gallons per Primary. They probably have 2-4 of them.