The City of Belleville is constructing a new Avonlough Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) and Conveyance System to provide municipal wastewater servicing at a capacity 490 L/s to support the development of approximately 9000 units in the Loyalist West Belleville Secondary Plan major growth area.
Environmental assessments were completed recently, and significant provincial funding (over $1.25 million) was announced in late 2024 to support it.
Goals
- Development of a new sewage pumping station and conveyance sewers
- Replacement of watermain and storm sewers
- Decommissioning and diversion of flow from the existing Avonlough SPS
- Intersection improvement and widening at Bridge Street West and Sidney Street
- Reconstructing Sidney Street / Catharine Street, Bridge Street West / Yeomans Street / Wellington Street intersection, Bridge Street West /Dunnet Boulevard intersections
Funding
The total cost of the project is $58,295,855.
- Status: Funded; Tender and construction preparation (2025-2026).
- Details: The largest residential growth-enabling project in the city’s recent history. It is necessary to unlock development in the “West Belleville” area (Avonlough Road/Loyalist College area).
Construction
Phase 1
Includes the pumping station, conveyance sewers and pressure sewers interconnections and associated road reconstruction and linear infrastructure replacement. Phase 1 has been divided into two contracts for tendering and construction.
- Contract 1 is for the Avonlough Pumping Station and two forcemains to connect to the gravity sewer on Bridge Street West at Palmer Road.
- Contract 2 is for the conveyance piping along all of Bridge Street West to the existing pipe crossing of the Moira River. This advanced temporary connection on the west side of the Moira River will utilize available capacity in the Moira Pressure Sewer, allowing the City to postpone two (2) subsequent phases.
- Phase 2 will extend the Avonlough Pressure Sewer (APS) across the Moira River to the interim connection point with the existing MPS on the east side of the Moira River.
- Phase 3 will entail the permanent connection with the extension of the APS to the Belleville Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP).
