Today@Dal

From Monday's Chronicle Herald:

For years, Rob Jamieson has been investigating how Nova Scotia handles its wastewater and stormwater.

Equipped with that experience, the Dalhousie University engineer took his skills to the Arctic in 2010 and recently landed a prestigious Canada Research Chair for his work there. From mid-June to the end of September, he can be found in Nunavut.

In between, he’s still tackling Bible Hill’s sewage.

What does your lab look like?

“We have a facility where we’ve kind of tapped into the town of Bible Hill’s sewer line, so we’re able to pump wastewater up to our research site and load wastewater into different types of experimental treatment systems. You’d have cat-tails and other wetland vegetation growing within engineered berm ponds, (as well as) on-site wastewater treatment systems. So, if you had a house out in the country, you would have your own wastewater treatment system that would be installed underground. In terms of what that would look like, you wouldn’t actually see much if you go up to the Bible Hill site, because all the systems are actually buried underground and you’d just see a bunch of pipes sticking up.”

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