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   Fort Good Hope
  • The charter community of Fort Good Hope has a small system water treatment plant that consists of a seasonal-fill reservoir and a truckfill station, both of which where built in 1980.
  • The reservoir is filled twice a year from the Mackenzie River using a portable diesel pump. Once from the middle of the ice in April and once again in October from the shoreline.
  • The reservoir has both a permanent heated and insulated section as well as a temporary section that is not protected from freezing.
Beach in Fort Good Hope
  • The reservoir is an aboveground earthen structure:
    • 93m x 93m
    • 36,000 cubic metre volume
    • Useable Volume= 13,000-24,000 cubic metres
  • Two submerged centrifugal pumps running in tandem are used to fill the water trucks.
  • Chlorine is added to the water as it is pumped into the truck for disinfection.
  • Two water trucks are used, both of them carry 9000 litres.
  • To learn more about Fort Good Hope, click here.