Water services for many parks and open spaces posed a potential risk for contamination of the drinking water system, due to the lack of backflow prevention devices and/or the improper installation of devices.
The City’s Backflow Prevention & Cross Connection Control By-law required the City to upgrade parks' and open spaces' water service connections to comply with this municipal standard and ensure the protection of the municipal drinking water system from potential contamination.
Before this program began, over 90% of all parks' and open spaces' water services were unmetered, resulting in a large quantity of water that was unaccounted for. This lack of metering significantly impacted the ability to accurately calculate water loss values and subsequently the leakage index for the water distribution system.
The work consisted of the excavation and installation of pit setters, water services and associated grading and restoration works at various park locations, as well as decommissioning non-active water services at various parks and open spaces. With the 2024 locations now upgraded, the program is complete, and all City parks and open spaces are compliant.
Project Updates
November 13, 2024
The contractor has completed the installation of the pit setters at John Edwin Coupe Park, Veteran’s Woods Park, and the Transient Marina. This completes the installations that were part of this overall project. The sites are being restored with grass seed. With seed growth, the sites will be restored to previous condition or better.