Lake Simcoe, the largest inland lake in southern Ontario, suffers from acute nutrient loading. Environment Canada was concerned about contamination even from the restroom used by motorists and boaters enjoying the park at Lock 41 Station.
Although the conventional onsite system with tile lines in a sand filter was working, Environment Canada chose the site for a pilot project to test a technology that could provide long-term protection of the watershed. Centre for Sustainable Watersheds, a nonprofit environmental organization in Portland, Ont., provided the engineered ECOCYCLET ZeroDischarge closed-loop evapotranspiration bed.
“It’s not a wetland cell because the recirculated wastewater either evaporates or
