Water treatment plant getting $115-million upgrade
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This article was published 14/08/2021 (1867 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Brandon’s water treatment plant will be receiving a $115-million expansion thanks to joint funding from the federal, provincial and municipal governments.
According to a Friday afternoon news release from the federal government, the money will be used to add a membrane treatment facility to the plant, which will “help Brandon to meet and exceed water quality requirements, as well as increase capacity and operational redundancy.”
The $115 million will also go toward purchasing a new intake, yard piping and settling pond in the hopes of reducing maintenance and ensuring residents have access to safe drinking water well into the future.
In Friday’s release, Mayor Rick Chrest characterized these upgrades as possibly one of Brandon’s largest municipal infrastructure projects to date.
“We’re so very thrilled to see this highly critical project achieve the tri-level government partnership that will now allow it to fully proceed,” he said.
“We’re grateful to see our federal and provincial governments give our water treatment plant upgrade the green light through this funding approval.”
The upgrade for Brandon’s water treatment plant was part of a larger announcement on Friday, in which members of the federal and provincial governments revealed that they (alongside some municipalities) will spend more than $146.5 million to fund 11 infrastructure projects across the province.
This includes $1.5 million in joint funding to rehabilitate the Shellmouth Dam, near Roblin.
The feds and the province will also set aside $5.5 million to help rebuild the Oak Lake West Dike near Sifton.
Outside of Westman, the federal and provincial governments are contributing more than $2.8 million in joint funding to make sure dikes in the communities of St. Adolphe and St. Agathe, just south of Winnipeg, are raised above current flood protection levels.
Further north, the federal government, the province and the City of Thompson will pull together just over $47 million to rehabilitate more than 13.8 kilometres of local water pipes and more than 3.3 kilometres of local wastewater pipes.
“Today’s funding announcement for these vital infrastructure projects represents a lot of hard work and collaboration between Manitoba and our federal and municipal partners,” Brandon West MLA Reg Helwer said in Friday’s release.
“Funding for the Brandon water treatment facility upgrade and expansion will improve waste-water management so the region can continue to grow knowing that its facilities have increased treatment capacity … and will provide a cleaner environment to the area’s growing population.”
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