South Huron Water Distribution System Overview
May 11, 2015
Presented By: Don Giberson
• To provide Members of Council with background information
regarding the South Huron Water Distribution System.
• South Huron water distribution system consists of elevated water towers,
underground reservoirs, booster pumping stations, control & monitoring
chambers and 181km of distribution piping.
• The system provides service to approximately 8,000 residents in Stephen,
Exeter and a few customers in Usborne near the former Exeter well sites.
• South Huron also supplies customers in Municipality of Bluewater along our
north boundary and in Dashwood. Residents along our south boundary are
serviced from the North Middlesex water system.
Brief History of South Huron Water System
EXETER
•
1900 non-potable water system was installed on Main Street and used river
water to control road dust.
•
1910 and 1915 system was expanded to provide river water for the Grand
Trunk Railway Yard, for plumbing and fire protection.
•
1917 Exeter Public Utilities Commission was established.
•
1936 potable water was provided to Exeter with the development of the
Springs well site, Main Pump House and Reservoir as a result of public
health concerns.
•
1940’s to 1970’s more well sites were developed to satisfy additional
demand. Moodie Well in 1949, Hicks Well in 1960, Morgan Well and
Cudmore Well in 1977.
•
1960 Filter Building was constructed to sell river water to the cannery.
•
1974 a new water tower was built on Nelson Street to replace tower behind
old Town Hall.
•
1995 connection to Lake Huron transmission main near Shipka, Stephen
Booster and 300mm watermain built to Exeter to augment supply.
•
2001 Walkerton tragedy 7 fatalities and over 2000 sick from E-coli in the
drinking water. All Exeter wells were subsequently found to be noncompliance with new regulations.
•
2008 LHPWSS Exeter-Hensall 600mm pipeline was completed along with a
reservoir and pumping station at Airport & Huron Street. All Exeter wells
were taken off line and decommissioned.
STEPHEN
• 1940’s RCAF constructed the Huron Park water system and ground water
wells to service a new Air Force base built to support the war effort.
• 1950’s Kirkton Wells developed to provide additional supply. Use was
discontinued in 2003 due to pipeline failures and decommissioned in 2010.
• 1965 after the completion of the Lake Huron Water Treatment Plant, water
systems started to be built in the lakeshore area due to contaminated wells.
• 1960’s – 1980’s water systems expanded to rural areas near Lake Huron
pipeline, due to contaminated wells and poor quality ground water.
• 1983 water systems constructed in Crediton, Centralia and Dashwood.
• 2006 complete water system in Huron Park Residential Area was replaced.
• 2010 water system in the Huron Park Industrial area was replaced, along
with a new water tower, upgraded Crediton BPS and new watermain to
Centralia to improve fire protection.
• 2011 old Huron Park water tower, Booster Pumping Station, Centralia
Booster were demolished and Huron Park Reservoir was abandoned.
• SOUTH HURON WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM was established in
2008 after the Exeter and Stephen water systems were formally combined.
1. Exeter Elevated Water Tower
2. Huron Park Elevated Water Tower
3. MacNaughton Drive Booster Pumping Station
4. Crediton Booster Pumping Station
5. MacNaughton Drive Reservoirs
6. Church & William Pressure Zone Control Chamber
7. Huron Street Monitoring Chamber
8. Airport Line & Huron Street Control Chamber
9. Huron Park Metering Chamber
10. Shipka Pressure Control Chamber
11. Pressure Zone Control Chambers (Dashwood Rd/Shipka Line; Dashwood
Rd west of Dashwood; Blackbush Line/Crediton Rd; Goshen Line/Huron
St; Babylon Line/Huron St; and Bronson Line/Huron St.
12. 181km of watermains (50mm to 400mm); 327 fire hydrants; 632 valves.
Owner/Operator: South Huron
Constructed in 1974
Welded steel spherical tank
Capacity: 1,515 m3
20kw natural gas backup power generator
Owner/Operator: South Huron
Constructed in 2010
Concrete pedestal & steel tank
Capacity: 2,700 m3
Chlorine gas re-chlorination
60kw natural gas backup power generator
Owner/Operator: South Huron
Originally constructed in 1936, upgraded 2011
Three vertical turbine pumps with VFD’s
400 kW diesel backup power generator
Owner/Operator: South Huron
Constructed in 1995; upgraded in 2010
Three vertical turbine pumps with VFD’s
80-100 kW diesel backup power generator
Owner/Operator: South Huron
Original constructed in 1936
1,140 m3 single cell in-ground reservoir
New reservoir constructed in 1995
2,490 m3 single cell in-ground reservoir
• Source of supply is LHPWSS Water Treatment Plant and transmission
main.
• Exeter is fed from the LHPWSS Exeter-Hensall pipeline on Huron Street.
• Exeter has two pressure zones separated at the river and controlled by a
chamber at Church & William Street.
• The south pressure zone is supported by the Exeter water tower and the
LHPWSS Exeter-Hensall BPS. At night the MacNaughton BPS fills the
water tower to turn over water in the MacNaughton Reservoirs.
• The north pressure zone is a direct feed from the Exeter-Hensall pipeline at
Airport & Thames Road.
• Each pressure zone will backup the other. MacNaughton BPS has split
header and will support either pressure zone.
• Stephen has five pressure zones each separated by control chambers.
•
•
•
•
•
Zone 1 Lakeshore area fed off LHPWSS pipeline at Gore Road & B-Line.
Zone 2 West of Shipka fed off LHPWSS at Crediton Road & Shipka Line
Zone 3 East of Shipka fed off LHPWSS at Crediton Road & Shipka Line
Zone 4 Dashwood fed off E-H pipeline at Bronson Line & Huron Street
Zone 5 Crediton and Huron Park fed from Shipka connection.
• Each pressure zone will back up the other. The Crediton Booster Pumping
Station can pump directly into and feed Zone 5.
• Crediton, Huron Park and Centralia are supported by the Huron Park water
tower that is controlled by the Crediton Booster Pumping Station.
• Huron Park water tower and Exeter water tower can backup each other as
they are at the same operating elevation.
Thank you