Upcoming public hearing on $30M water project
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This article was published 04/07/2022 (1331 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
When Brandon City Council meets on July 18, they’ll be considering a $30-million project with help from the public.
A public hearing will be held during the meeting regarding the city’s plan to borrow those funds from the Bank of Montreal to finance the construction of upgrades to wastewater infrastructure in the southwest part of town.
If approved, that $30 million will be paid off over 20 years at an interest rate of up to 7.5 per cent and an annual payment of up to $2.943 million. To help pay for the debenture, residents will be levied a fee through water utility rates.
With continued development and home construction in southwest Brandon, the city states that its current infrastructure in the area is close to capacity.
The upgrades would increase that capacity for the Bellafield and Brookwood subdivisions and leave open the possibility of extending service to future south end developments, even to areas lying south of the city’s current boundaries.
To accomplish this, the project would see the construction of two new lift stations, which will move wastewater from low to high elevations. One will be near the intersection of 34th Street and Patricia Avenue and another on 18th Street south of Patricia Avenue.
The city’s existing south end lift station is located on First Street, north of Patricia Avenue. It will also receive upgrades as part of the project.
Near the planned 34th Street lift station, new trunk sewers will be built to service nearby developments and a forcemain — a sewer through which water is pumped and not moved through gravity — will be built connected to the existing forcemain south of the south end lift station.
At the planned 18th Street lift station, wastewater sewers will be extended to the north and west to service nearby developments and another forcemain will be built connecting to that same existing forcemain near the south end lift station.
Fibre optic communication systems will also be built along both phases.
According to the city’s website, design work is already underway, and the first stages of construction will be tendered this fall.
The city is also currently working on another $30-million project in the city’s southeast, intended on improving the area’s drainage capacity by building new retention ponds, drainage outlets, storm sewers and a lift station.
Because it is summer, Brandon City Council is only meeting once during the months of July and August. The next meeting is on July 18 — when the public hearing will be held — with the meeting after that taking place on Aug. 15.
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