This treatment plant will increase the City of Regina’s wastewater treatment capacity and modernize the facility through upgrades to the primary (non-organic) and secondary (organic) treatment processes and the construction of a new tertiary treatment process. The new system will provide treatment capacity for a population of 258,000 and significantly reduce ammonia, nitrogen, phosphorous, E. coli, and suspended solids levels from entering the water system. The Province of Saskatchewan has raised effluent standards to improve water quality and the environment, and to meet these new standards, a new wastewater facility is required. The new facility will be substantially complete in December 2016.