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Kirkland Lake offers business reliable and economical utilities.

Electricity

Kirkland Lake’s electricity is drawn from the high voltage transmission system operated by Hydro One Networks Inc.

Voltages available to commercial operations, institutions, and manufacturing and processing plants located within the community are 120/240 volts single phase, 240 volts 3 phase, 120/208 volts 3 phase 4 wire, and 347/600 volts 3 phase 4 wire. Large industrial users (over 2,000 kW) are supplied at 12,000 volts or greater.

Natural Gas

Union Gas ( www.uniongas.com ) supplies natural gas to the Kirkland Lake residential as well as commercial and industrial markets. Line size varies from 2 to 8 inches, and line pressure varies according to the size and needs of the customer. To see rate information, visit http://www.uniongas.com/aboutus/regulatory/rates/ratesindex.asp#residentialrates.

Water/Sewage

Kirkland Lake draws its water supply from Gull Lake and McTavish Lake. The Lionel Sherratt Water Treatment Plant, completed in 1997, supplies Kirkland Lake proper, including Chaput Hughes and Swastika. This plant has a capacity of 5 million gallons per day but operates at an average of 2.5 million gallons per day.

Wastewater from the community is collected through a series of collectors, trunklines and sanitary lift stations and treated in a Town owned but OCWA operated wastewater treatment plant situated on Comfort Street. Swastika is serviced separately and wastewater is treated in a municipally owned and operated wastewater treatment plant located on Otto Lake.

Public Works Division

Department of Physical Services

Corporation of the Town of Kirkland Lake

1 Dunfield Road, Postal Bag 1757

Kirkland Lake Ontario P2N 3P4

Tel: (705) 567 9365; Fax: (705) 567 9400

Email: Physserv@tkl.ca

Telecommunications

Kirkland Lake has a modern, robust telecommunications infrastructure that supports normal telephone, cell phone and pager applications. High-speed Internet services are readily available at rates that are amongst the lowest in North America. Available business solutions include:

• Redundant DSL and ATM technologies;

• Fibre ring technology (community serviced by 2 fibre optic cables)

• Common channel signalling (CCS-7);

• Seamless voice, video and data links with major Canadian and international carriers;

• Fault tolerant infrastructure; and

• DMS-100 local exchange switching system provides multiple trunk options including DID and Centrex.

 

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