M'Chigeeng Water Treatment Plant

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M'Chigeeng First Nation Water Treatment Plant

Our water plant is first rate and our highly trained operators strive to provide our community with clean, safe and drinkable water.

Water

M’Chigeeng’s water comes from the middle of “The Bay”; it is fed into the low lift station by gravity and is then pulled from the low lift to the Water Treatment Plant’s membrane filter chambers. Water is sucked through the membrane filters which remove floating particles (called turbidity) from the raw (untreated) water. The water is disinfected with sodium hypochlorite (chlorine) on it’s way to the below grade clearwell, unless the granular activated carbon filters are being used. In this case, the chlorine is added after this filter. The granular activated carbon filters are used twice a year, mainly in the spring and fall when lake turn over occurs, this is when taste and odour is a concern. The water is then sent back to the clearwell; where it is ready to be pumped up to the tower.

The tower feeds the Lakeview, Otter Lake area, or Oakhill Drive area or the village. To ensure water safety more chlorine is added if needed as it leaves the tower.

Interesting Facts:

  • Allowable turbidity limit is less than 1.0 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (Ntu); Water turbidity leaving the M’Chigeeng Water Plant is 0.08 Ntu.
  • Allowable chlorine limit is 5 mg/L or no less than 0.20 mg/L; Chlorine leaves the plant at 1.20 mg/L, that is only a couple of drops per litre.
If you can smell chlorine in your water, run the tap for a few minutes to get fresh water; the chlorine odour is caused by stagnant water in your water line.

Watermain Extension - Rural Areas

We are still working on a proposal for funding from INAC to get this project started. This will cost approximately 4 to 5 Million dollars. This will also take a long time to get the funding from INAC because of their budgets. We are putting money aside every year so we will have our share of the project dollars.