Iqaluit swaps sewage technology for sewage truck

Iqaluit council has salvaged parts of the city’s infamous non-functioning sewage treatment plant to pay for a sewage truck.

Council approved leasing a Sterling sewage truck from South Baffin Holdings, an Iqaluit-based operation, pending the sale of sewage treatment membrane technology left over from Iqaluit’s $7-million sewage treatment facilities, which haven’t worked since they were built several years ago.

Administration already budgeted $180,000 this year to sell the old plant’s membrane filters, which are incompatible with the new sewage treatment plant being constructed, to the municipality of Powell River, B.C.