EPCOR Utilities Inc. (EPCOR), is a North American utility company that develops and operates water treatment facilities, and transmission and distribution networks in the United States and Canada. In Texas, EPCOR provides wholesale water supply and wastewater services to communities and industrial customers throughout the state.
The company has extensive experience delivering large-scale, complex water treatment and supply projects. Two notable examples demonstrate EPCOR’s expertise: EPCOR operates the Darlington Demineralized Water Treatment Plant in Ontario Canada, which treats raw water from Lake Ontario to produce 2.6 million gallons of ultra-pure water per day for nuclear power generation. The facility utilizes advanced water treatment technologies and responsibly discharges clean, treated wastewater back into Lake Ontario. This project showcases EPCOR’s ability to manage raw water intakes, operate sophisticated treatment systems, and comply with strict environmental standards.
EPCOR also operates the Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant, a high-density sludge water treatment facility built to remediate acid rock drainage from an abandoned copper mine that for decades had poisoned Howe Sound, a majestic inlet north of Vancouver once devoid of salmon, dolphins, seals, and orcas due to toxic runoff. Since beginning operations in 2005, EPCOR has treated 4.2 billion liters of runoff annually, removing a quarter-of-a-million kilograms of heavy metals and keeping more than five million kilograms of toxins out of Howe Sound. Only five years after the plant opened, salmon returned to spawn in Britannia Creek, and today the sound once again supports teeming aquatic life, from sea lions to humpback whales. This transformation, now recognized by Howe Sound’s designation as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, demonstrates EPCOR’s ability not only to build and operate technically advanced treatment systems but also to restore ecosystems at a scale that safeguards marine life and community well-being.
EPCOR Utilities Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, builds, owns and operates electrical, natural gas and water transmission and distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment facilities, sanitary and stormwater systems, and infrastructure in the United States and Canada. EPCOR has approximately 100 employees in Texas and is recognized by the Water Environment Federation as a Utility of the Future.
EPCOR operations throughout the Southwestern U.S.