[papertokyo]

I live in a building connected to the False Creek system. Some details that may be interesting:

- Most of the apartment blocks currently served are located in a former industrial area that was redeveloped for the 2010 Winter Olympics and gradually built up since then.

- All new buildings in the utility's service area are required to be connected to the system for space heating and domestic hot water. The city charges a connection fee and the building must be designed with the requisite plumbing to integrate with the system, but some space is saved by not needing a large central heating plant.

- The metering and billing is done with https://www.wysemeter.com/ (at least in my building).

- The hot water is indeed very hot, and reliably so. I wouldn't be able to tell the heat source is sewage if the owner didn't mention it.

- In Winter, it's easy to identify which buildings which are connected to the utility, since they don't have have large steam clouds coming out the top.

City council info page: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/southeast-fal...