The Spring Creek Water Resource
Unlike the Centre Region, most communities with a population of several thousand or more are located adjacent to a river or a large body of fresh water. For those communities, water management is relatively simple: “Pump it and Dump It.” Water is pumped from the river upstream of the community, used, and after treatment, the wastewater is dumped back into the river downstream. Where the source is a lake, water drawn from the lake is treated, used and the treated wastewater