Sanitary Services

Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Project

Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant

Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant is one of Metro Vancouver’s Liquid Waste Treatment Facilities. Located in Richmond at 1000 Ferguson Road, the plant provides primary treatment to wastewater from about 600,000 residents in Vancouver, the UBC Endowment Lands and parts of Burnaby and Richmond.

For more information regarding the plant’s treatment standards and resource recovery from wastewater, visit Metro Vancouver’s website.

Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Project
​Photo credit Metro Vancouver

Project Information

Metro Vancouver plans to upgrade the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant to meet regulatory requirements by 2030.

Metro Vancouver will conduct community engagement sessions for this project in the spring of 2020; the dates will be published on the Metro Vancouver website. For further information regarding this project or to sign up for project updates, visit Metro Vancouver’s website.