Lambton Centennial School to get new sewage system this summer

Local Journalism Initiative

May 2, 2024 at 3:24 p.m.·1 min read

A project to replace the lagoon at Lambton Centennial School is underway and will see a new underground septic system installed.

Lambton-Kent Associate Director Brian McKay said the lagoon at Lambton Centennial is at the end of its life as it was built in the late 1960s. Currently, the school has been unhooked from the lagoon and tanks have been placed to collect the sewage from the building.

McKay said the new sewage system will be constructed in July and August with it to be ready for the start of the next school year on Sept. 1. He wasn’t sure of the total cost at this point, but said it will be over $1 million.

A second phase of the project will be the decommissioning of the lagoon. At this point the timeline of the decommissioning is still being looked at by the school board, said McKay. The existing lagoon is currently going through a dewatering process.

“We have not done something like this before,” said McKay. The school board at one time had a couple of schools with a lagoon, but Lambton Centennial is the last one remaining. Once the septic system is completed, the school will be one of seven within the school district to have this type of system.

Blake Ellis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent

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