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The WWTP is owned and operated by the City and receives domestic, institutional, commercial, and industrial wastewater from the City and a portion of the Village of Rockwood. [...] A summary of the status of the ongoing Speed River Assimilative Capacity Study (ACS) project and the effluent limits to be used for the development and evaluation of alternatives for the Master Plan project is also provided. [...] Future Needs and Stream Assimilative Capacity Study The City is currently undertaking an ACS for the Speed River to characterize the current status of the Speed River, document the effects of the existing WWTP effluent, model and predict effects of the re-rated WWTP on downstream water quality, and recommend effluent limits for the future projected flows to the WWTP. [...] The WWTP is owned and operated by the City and receives domestic, institutional, commercial and industrial wastewater from the City and a portion of the Village of Rockwood. [...] While this per capita flow is at the higher end of the typical range of 225 to 450 lpcd (Ministry of the Environment 2008), the populations in Table 5-2 do not include the University of Guelph student population and the population of the Town of Rockwood.