Environmental

Poplar River First Nation’s wastewater lagoon had exceeded its treatment capacity, creating compliance challenges and limiting future growth. The community needed an upgrade that could deliver long‑term reliability within a constrained site. The project added new primary and secondary cells, converted the existing primary cell to expand secondary treatment, and installed all required interconnecting piping.

JRCC was retained to provide engineering services for the NCN water treatment plant upgrade. The community’s water and wastewater system was operating at capacity and future planned developments would be a further stress on the system. There were also concerns with water quality and the potential for contamination of the water source from the existing

JRCC was retained by the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) to conduct a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment of the NCN Reserve lands, consisting of 25,000 ha over 18 separate land parcels. The Phase I ESA was completed in 2017 and included a records review, site visits to several reserve parcels, interviews with First Nation personnel

FRCN required a Phase I ESA to determine the environmental condition of the Reserve lands prior to transferring administration under the Framework Agreement on First Nations Land Management.