St. Andrews, Beausejour, Arborg, Winnipeg Beach and Stonewall to benefit from Small Communities Fund of the New Building Canada Plan
October 16, 2014 – St. Andrews, Manitoba – Infrastructure Canada
Today, the governments of Canada and Manitoba announced that five communities from Manitoba's Interlake Region will benefit from the New Building Canada Plan's Small Communities Fund.
The Small Communities Fund is part of the $10-billion Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component of the New Building Canada Fund. It will provide $1 billion to municipalities with fewer than 100,000 residents for priority public infrastructure projects that deliver on local needs.
St. Andrews will extend the main trunk sewer connecting the Rural Municipality of West St. Paul into St. Andrews, thereby connecting between 150 and 200 residents to the system. Beausejour will construct a new wastewater lagoon storage cell and a new building, along with associated tanks, pump, piping and mechanical and electrical work. Arborg will upgrade more than two kilometres of existing watermains with new, larger capacity lines. Winnipeg Beach will improve its lagoon treatment system in order to provide high quality treatment of wastewater. Finally, Stonewall will construct a wetland of approximately 20 hectares in size to remove nutrients from treated effluent discharged from the town.
These projects will help these small Interlake Manitoba communities improve their water and wastewater infrastructure. When completed, the systems will better meet the needs of their residents today and into the future.
The five projects being announced today are among a number of projects across the province that will benefit from funding from the governments of Canada and Manitoba under the Small Communities Fund.
Vincent Rabault
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
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