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By Mark Ribble The Chatham-Kent Public Utilities Commission held a town hall style gathering at the Wheatley Water Treatment Plant on Thursday, May 28 to thank and recognize the numerous people and agencies involved in bringing the plant back online after a devastating fire there in 2023. Darren Galbraith, General Manager of Chatham-Kent PUC, hosted the event which included a Powerpoint presentation, tours of the facility and a lunch catered by Taylor Fisheries. “It’s been a huge undertaking for everybody involved,” said Galbraith about the restoration project. “The plant was out of commission for 824 days in total while we restored everything inside.” The fire, which happened on September 13, 2023, produced so much heat that it melted much of the inside of the plant and deposited heavy soot on the rest of it. It required a complete restoration and replacement of all electrical and mechanical components. Meanwhile, according to Galbraith, they maintained water pressure the best they could. He said they were happy that they only had to issue two boil-water advisories over the entire 824 days, with one being on the day of the fire. “One of the local industries did their normal 6 pm opening of their water valve, not knowing that the fire was taking out the plant,” said Galbraith. “The Wheatley water tower drained quickly
and we lost water pressure across the system. But water never stopped flowing and we are grateful for that.” Galbraith said it was a challenge to keep the water pressure up but thanked the Municipality
of Leamington for their help in connecting to their system. Waterboy, a company out of Dover Centre, delivered 593 loads of water to Tilbury in the early stages of the disaster. Leamington’s
involvement mitigated that. A temporary water treatment system was set up almost immediately, which operated until the refurbished plant came back online last December. A mobile filtration
system was installed to help the process and backup generators carried the electrical load until everything inside was fixed and cleaned. SEE WATER PLANT PAGE 2
In the photo above, Stew Bechard, Operation Manager for C-K PUC, explains the process of the how the water gets back out into the system during a tour of the Wheatley Water Treatment Plant on Thursday, May 28. In the photo right, new pipes and pumps designed to bring raw water from Lake Erie into the Wheatley Water Treatment Plant. SUN photos by Mark Ribble
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