Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Projects Alternative Approach

In October 2025, the GVS&DD Board endorsed an alternative approach for the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Projects to mitigate ​impacts on rate payers while prioritizing regulatory compliance for secondary treatment as soon as possible. The approach rescopes the projects to improve effluent quality sooner, while deferring sub-projects not required for secondary compliance​. The rescoped approach reduces costs, over the same period of time, from $9.9 billion to $6 billion. Metro Vancouver is a diverse organization that plans for and delivers regional utility services, including water, sewers and wastewater treatment, and solid waste management. It also monitors and regulates air quality, plans for urban growth, manages a regional parks system, provides affordable rental housing, and serves as a regional federation. The organization is a federation of 21 municipalities, one electoral area, and one treaty First Nation located in the region of the same name. The organization is made up of four separate legal entities, each governed by its own Board of Directors. Board directors are elected officials from member jurisdictions. VRXKEHBSXDYB3TWD