Walkerton - Decentralized Pilot Testing Services

In 2019, the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) completed a project with Wauzhushk Onigum Nation. The First Nations community is located on Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario and has been on a long-term boil water advisory since 2012 and is implementing decentralized point of entry (POE) systems for a portion of the community. WCWC tested different systems that would rely on lake water intakes. The lake water has high organics and colour making it a challenging water source for satisfying the requirements of UV disinfection. POE technologies were tested for effectiveness to remove turbidity and organics in order to improve UV disinfection. The  test results were beneficial to consultants in the design of the decentralized water systems.