Island Water Treatment Plant
The Island plant is located on Centre Island, surrounded by Lake Ontario. This is the site of Toronto’s first water treatment plant.
The original plant, built in two stages in the early 1900s, is no longer in service. The existing Island plant, built in 1977, has a capacity of 410 million litres per day.
Once only a May-to-October operation, it was used for peak capacity during hot weather high consumption periods and as a backup when another water treatment plant was taken out of service for maintenance.
A partnership in the Deep Lake Water Cooling project changed all that. More ...
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