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Only 6 Sewer Projects
Posted June 16, 2011 @ 11:23AM
by Alan Halberstadt
http://www.alanhalberstadt.com/
As City Council prepares to spend $66-million on a massive legacy project, the city’s massive infrastructure deficit mounts. The public is being asked to swallow the mantra that the corporation’s finances are in such great shape, we can now afford such elaborate toys.
Mainstream media commentators are so pre-occupied waving pom poms over the impending Big Box Aquatics Centre they have neglected to look at the dwindling capital budget for traditional infrastructure like sewers, roads and sidewalks. Remember them?
Let’s start today with sewers. While residents across Windsor howl about widespread basement flooding, Council is spending a paltry $8.7 million in 2011 on a grand total of six sewer projects.
They are as follows:
Gladstone Ave., from Wyandotte East to Erie East -- $1,680 million.
Parent Ave.(engineering only), from Erie Street East to Wyandotte Street E. -- $200,000
Marentette Ave., from Erie Street E. to Giles Blvd. E. -- $1.42 million
Tourangeau Road, from Seminole Street to Ontario Street -- $1.900 million
Tourangeau Road, from Seminole St. to Milloy St. -- $2.450 million
Lena Street, from College Ave. to Millen Street -- $750,000
An additional $300,000 has been set aside for engineering only for 2013 projects. Also added in the 2011 capital budget deliberations were sewer projects, at $1 million each, for Watson Ave. and Frncois Crt.
Funding for those two are being pulled from surpluses accumulated from previous sewer projects in South Walkerville.
Let’s start today with sewers. While residents across Windsor howl about widespread basement flooding, Council is spending a paltry $8.7 million in 2011 on a grand total of six sewer projects.
They are as follows:
Gladstone Ave., from Wyandotte East to Erie East -- $1,680 million.
Parent Ave.(engineering only), from Erie Street East to Wyandotte Street E. -- $200,000
Marentette Ave., from Erie Street E. to Giles Blvd. E. -- $1.42 million
Tourangeau Road, from Seminole Street to Ontario Street -- $1.900 million
Tourangeau Road, from Seminole St. to Milloy St. -- $2.450 million
Lena Street, from College Ave. to Millen Street -- $750,000
An additional $300,000 has been set aside for engineering only for 2013 projects. Also added in the 2011 capital budget deliberations were sewer projects, at $1 million each, for Watson Ave. and Frncois Crt.
Funding for those two are being pulled from surpluses accumulated from previous sewer projects in South Walkerville.
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