The city’s safe clean drinking water project taking another step forward with Mayor Mel Norton proclaiming the start of the design and construction phase at the latest meeting of Common Council, which the mayor describes as being 230 years in the making.
The cost of the project is $216-million and is being carried out by a consortium of companies called Port City Water Partners. The consortium will build and operate the water treatment plant for 30 years after it’s finished in November of 2018. Both the commercial close happening on February 4 of this year.
Norton says the province and the feds have agreed to contribute up to one half of the eligible project costs, “over the next number of weeks the city and the partners will be working with the province and the federal government to confirm exactly what those eligible project costs are, but in rough figures it’s approximately one half of that $216-million price tag”
Norton says some preliminary construction is going to start right away.
