The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant may be one of four city plants providing clean water to Toronto, but it is undoubtedly the largest and most p...
Its most obvious purpose: this sprawling plant cleans and produces more than 950 million litres of clean water daily.
Nearly a hundred years since its opened, the plant—made up by a filter building, service building, pumping station, and a connecting underground system—looks kind of like how you'd expect our water to taste: pristine.Marble, brass railings, green stones and terrazzo tiles make up the building's vast halls and rounded arches. It's an enviable workplace, for the mere 30-something employees, mostly plant technicians, that work there.
Sludge cakes are essentially soil that's taken from the backwash water at the Residue Management Facility.
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