Cookstown Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collection System

This Plant is located at 1315 Victoria Street and was originally built in 1987 with a capacity of 825 m³ per day or (180,000 gallons per day). This Plant is an extended aeration type plant with two effluent retention ponds, as the effluent can only be discharged from October 1 to May 31 in any given year.

The collection system in the Cookstown area consists of 11.43 KM of gravity sewers flowing directly to the Plant Pump Station. There it is lifted to the treatment plant and the effluent discharges to the retention ponds. There is 1.48 Km of force main running from the Plant to the Innisfil Creek where the effluent is discharged.