Quayside Village

Quayside Village (Quayside) is a 19 unit low-rise multi-family cohousing development located in Lower Lonsdale in the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Awarded the Silver Georgie Award for Best Low-Rise development in 1999, Quayside has a greywater reclamation system incorporated into the building design that collects treats household greywater collected from showers, baths, lavatory sinks, laundry and kitchens in the building, and reuses the treated greywater to flush toilets.

The Healthy House greywater treatment system was supplied by Creative Communities Research Inc. (CCRJ) based in Toronto, Ontario, and funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Research Division. The system design was based on similar technologies used for the Healthy House project in Toronto, Ontario, where treated domestic wastewater is used for a wide range of non-potable water uses including flushing toilets, showers & bathing, lavatory sinks, laundry, and irrigation for two side-by-side townhouses.

The building is located in an area where municipal water and wastewater services are available. Although the original intent was to apply the reuse water for toilet flushing, laundry, irrigation, and showers/bathing, the City of North Vancouver building inspection plumbing permit department was willing to consider only a toilet reuse application.