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Case Study Waste Waste

Case study: Fertilizing agricultural land with sewage sludge

The City of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu studied the feasibility of using municipal sewage sludge as agricultural fertilizer.  Every year, the municipal wastewater treatment plant trucks 11,000 tonnes of biosolids to a landfill more than 100 kilometres away. After field tests, the st…

December 4, 2018

Case Study Water Water

Case study: New Chatham-Kent wastewater treatment facility reduces E. coli

This is part of a series of case studies on wastewater projects funded by the FCM's Green Municipal Fund. Each case study provides technical information, project details and tips on best practices. Project overview To improve treatment capacity and discharge quality, the Municipality of …

December 2, 2018

Case Study Sustainable affordable housing Sustainable affordable housing

Retrofits lead to healthier, more energy-efficient homes for community housing residents

In 2012, Toronto Community Housing (TCH) set out to reduce the environmental impact of its housing portfolio and partnered with The Atmospheric Fund (TAF), a regional climate agency that invests in low-carbon solutions, to retrofit seven community housing buildings. Their goal was to reduce gre…

September 15, 2020

Case Study Transportation Transportation

2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Award — Transportation

Laurier Avenue Segregated Bike Lane Project Population: Project duration: Total project value: 900,000 July 2011–July 2013 $1.1 million Transcript Over 1.25 million bike trips have been counted on Laurier Avenue West since the …

December 3, 2018

Case Study Water Water

Case study: How Barrie’s new wastewater plant improves capacity and efficiency

This is part of a series of case studies on wastewater projects funded by the FCM's Green Municipal Fund. Each case study provides technical information, project details and tips on best practices. Project overview The City of Barrie, ON, expanded its wastewater treatment plant to accomm…

December 3, 2018

Resource Land Use Land Use

Brownfield Roadmaps

The Brownfield Roadmaps have been developed to help municipalities and their private-sector partners better understand how to redevelop brownfields in their communities.

January 15, 2021

Resource Land Use Land Use

Tool: Sustainable Site Assessments

You can use various techniques to find out whether a suspected brownfield site contains contaminated soil or groundwater.

December 14, 2018