RE:New Westminster BC moving forward on Sewage Heat Recovery..I have to think sewage heat recovery was always the forgone conclusion for Metro Vancouver (vs. burning wood waste LOL..I am picturing elves in the boiler room with shovels) there are too many references pointing to that I can find online to ignore ... this one dating back to Nov 2014 with just a small mention of it in the last paragraph.
It will also be able to recover heat from the sewers. https://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/issue-3/35/New%20Sapperton%20Pump%20Station Not to turn this poitical but imo, the powers that be love to justify their positions by pushing paper around, spending budgets to the max so they can quantify why they need an increase next year, dragging their heels
analysing to create a ruse/distraction to buy time and put off making a decision so the ego maniacs that love to hear the sound of their own voices appease the public in the name of being 'thorough' = sideshow at the circus
Now in the case of the new Sapperton Pump Station and the Royal Columbia hospital expansion, time is of the essence so finally all the parties have come out with what we (& I charge they) knew would be the result 2 years ago ..Crazy!
Here was another clue that SHR was always the front runner and what they were always working toward behind their snow screen.
Of interest on this link is a map showing the main trunk of the sewer line (the red represents a heat map where it's warmest) that runs through Metro Vancouver .. next up is Surrey & Richmond where this has also been on the table for several years I am sure they will follow suit and I am also sure they've known all along this is the plan This simple tech is just to strong in terms of reaching their own mandated goals of GHG reduction and lowering the tap of Nasty Gas....lighting fires in the basement was always off the rails lol .. an outrage really, so much time & money spent on consultants and engineers probably could have built it all twice by now
https://www.metrovancouver.org/metroupdate/Issue-4/50/award-winning-sewer-heat-model-