Cape Breton Regional municipality - A Community of Communities

 New Waterford

Waterford Lake and Kilkenny Lake

Waterford Lake, the location of the intake pipe for the New Waterford water treatment plant, receives about half its water by underground pipe from Kilkenny Lake. The New Waterford treatment plant provides potable water to the communities of New Waterford, Scotchtown, River Ryan, New Victoria, and Lingan.

Waterford Lake with the treatment plant to the right and Daley Road in the foreground, July 2008.

Kilkenny Lake with CBDC's Victoria Junction Tailings Basin in the background, July 2008

Waterford and Kilkenny Lakes Source Water Protection Planning (SWPP) Committee

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Waterford Lake Source Water Protection Plan

Kilkenny Lake Source Water Protection Plan

If you have are interested in attending a meeting of the Waterford\Kilkenny Lakes SWPP committee or have any questions concerning watershed management please contact the watershed coordinator.

Britt Roscoe
Watershed Coordinator
Phone (902) 563-5551
Fax (902) 564-0481  
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