Water and wastewater infrastructure
Additions and upgrades to municipal water treatment plants, reservoirs and pumphouses, built while the plant stays in service.
Water and wastewater in Saskatchewan
The town's water can't stop while the plant grows.
Most water treatment projects aren’t new plants. They’re additions to plants that have to keep supplying the town every day of construction.
A typical job starts with a plant that sits on top of its own water reservoir. To add capacity, ECM builds a new concrete reservoir attached to the old one, then usually a new building over it for the new treatment and pumping equipment. The existing plant stays in service throughout, because it is the community’s water supply.
Since 2019 ECM has delivered water treatment plant additions for Ogema, Bengough, Carrot River and Churchbridge, a new pumphouse and reservoir upgrades for Dalmeny, and the refurbishment of the River Street reservoir for the City of Prince Albert. Each was designed by the community’s consulting engineer and tendered publicly, most with federal and provincial infrastructure funding behind it, and ECM built each one as general contractor.
ECM’s leadership brought long experience in water and wastewater to the firm, and its own crews form and pour the concrete reservoirs that these projects are built on.
Our Work
Infrastructure projects
Every project in the portfolio is tagged by focus area. These are ECM's infrastructure projects.
Carrot River Water Treatment Plant Upgrade
New dry well and below-grade raw water reservoir, plus a 3,200 sq ft plant building built partly over the existing treated water reservoir. Awarded on qualifications and the most competitive tender; concrete and framing self-performed.
What ECM built
- New dry well
- Below-grade raw water reservoir
- 3,200 sq ft plant building over the existing and new reservoirs
- Membrane treatment units
River Street Reservoir Refurbishment
Refurbishment of the City of Prince Albert's River Street reservoir: concrete repairs, new hatches and ladders, and cleaning and disinfection.
- Client
- City of Prince Albert
Dalmeny Pumphouse and Reservoir Upgrades
A new pumphouse and reservoir upgrades for the Town of Dalmeny, with Catterall & Wright as the consulting engineer.
- Client
- Town of Dalmeny
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What ECM builds
Infrastructure ECM builds
Water treatment plant additions
New plant buildings joined to existing ones, housing membrane treatment units, pumps with variable frequency drives and SCADA controls. Ogema, Bengough, Carrot River and Churchbridge.
Concrete reservoirs
Below-grade and on-grade reservoirs formed and poured by ECM's own crews, from the 410,000-litre reservoir at Ogema to the raw water reservoir and dry well at Carrot River, plus refurbishing the River Street reservoir in Prince Albert.
Pumphouses
New pumphouses and pumping upgrades that move treated water into the system, including Dalmeny's new pumphouse and reservoir upgrades.
Delivery methods
Water projects are tendered on finished engineering.
Municipal water work is designed by the community's consulting engineer and tendered publicly. Every water project ECM has built has been a general contract.
- General ContractingThe engineer's design is finished and the project goes to public tender, usually with funding deadlines attached. ECM bids the work, holds the price and keeps the plant in service throughout.
- Construction ManagementAn owner wants ECM involved before the design is final, with the costs in front of them as they come in. Available for water and wastewater work, though ECM's projects to date have been general contracts [tk].
Why ECM
A builder that knows the plant has to keep running.
- Existing plants kept in service through every stage of construction.
- ECM's own crews form and pour the concrete reservoirs.
- Six municipal water projects since 2019, from Ogema to Prince Albert.
- Leadership with long experience in water and wastewater construction.
- Bonded, COR certified, and a superintendent on site every day.
Who ECM works for
Infrastructure owners are mostly towns and cities, who tender the work through their consulting engineers, often with federal and provincial infrastructure funding behind it. ECM has built for the towns of Ogema, Bengough, Carrot River, Churchbridge and Dalmeny, and the City of Prince Albert.
Focus areas
Where else ECM works
CommercialService centres, offices, municipal shops and retail space for Indigenous organizations, municipalities and business owners, built new or converted from existing space.
InstitutionalSchools, daycares, health centres, care homes and provincial park buildings for First Nations, the province and community organizations.Three focus areas
Commercial, Institutional, and Infrastructure.
All focus areas
Planning a water or wastewater project?
Send the tender documents or a prequalification request, or call 306-519-7569.