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alignment and integration of the plans/ studies, and reviewed each Plan 200K Project presentation at each juncture of the four-stage process, before they were brought forward to the senior leadership team and Council, and for public input. For example, the departments of Parks, Recreation & Culture and Engineering & Regional Utilities worked closely to ensure that transportation and transit- enhanced networks complemented access to recreational areas. ENGINEERING MASTER PLANS Seven of the 20 master plans and studies were in engineering areas such as transportation, transit, sewer collection system, water distribution, drainage, wastewater treatment, and water supply. The purpose of the master plans was to review infrastructure needs to support growth in the next 25 years, and develop a capital growth program that was “phaseable, affordable, resilient, sustainable, incremental, flexible, and grantable” (PARSIF+G). Wastewater Treatment Plant was the focus of one of the seven engineering master plans. The JAMES Plant currently provides secondary treatment services to the urban areas of Abbotsford, Mission, and Sumas, Washington State. The JAMES Plant serves a population equivalent to 275,000 (residential, institutional, commercial and industrial), with an average flow of 53,000 cubic metres per day. Treated effluent is discharged into a high current area of the Fraser River; Class A biosolids, as defined in the provincial Organic Matters Recycling Regulation, are produced as a result of the pre-pasteurization and digestion process. The plant meets or exceeds the applicable WASTEWATER TREATMENT The Joint Abbotsford Mission Environmental System (JAMES)

The plant for the JAMESWastewater Treatment Plant is not only to increase its capacity, but to also review seismic and climate change resiliency and energy recovery opportunities. P hoto : c ity of a bbotsford

with liquefaction potential. Current site constraints are such that it is not feasible to improve the existing infrastructure to meet current seismic and BC Building Code requirements. Plant expansion on a future site will need to be seismically prepared; a seismic dyke along the river side of the site and ground densification via stone

as the resiliency of plant infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, were reviewed. The plant is protected by the Matsqui Dyke; the master plan recommended raising a future site for flood- proofing and allowing treated effluent to flow by gravity from the plant to the river. Another resiliency consideration was seismic. The plant is located on lands

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provincial and federal regulations. The capacity of the JAMES Plant to accommodate future growth, as well

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