More than 1,100 West Kelowna homes will be hooked onto sanitary sewers as a result of a government funding announcement on Friday. Ottawa and Victoria are each providing $2.5 million toward the project, with the District of West Kelowna adding another $3.7 million. “This project will not only make local infrastructure reliable for years to come, but is creating jobs today to boost our economy for tomorrow,” Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Stockwell Day said. Sewers will be extended through parts of Glenrosa, Lakeview Heights and the Casa Loma neighbourhoods. With the federal and provincial governments providing nearly 60 per cent of the sewering project‘s cost, expansion of the system “can now be done without a tremendous financial burden on our citizens,” said West Kelowna mayor Doug Findlater. A sewering project in West Kelowna last year received federal and provincial funding totalling $6 million. “Giving communities the support they need to develop and enhance essential infrastructure is a prime concern for all levels of government,” said Westside-Kelowna MLA Ben Stewart.
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Don Quixote Note: This appears to be a Grant that Vernon also has applied for at least twice since 2007 and has been denied.
Okanagan Septic Removal Program | ||
| Total Cost: | $4,415,634 |
2 comments:
City of Vernon not favoured with representation by Foster anymore than it was when we had Christenson. Either that or the Province and the Feds know how pathetic our mayor and council are!
What a joke. No wonder Vernon received the THUMBS DOWN on funding: apparently in Vernon, sewer connections cost 10 times as much as in West Kelowna!
Why bother resubmitting such a grant request when the numbers are this out of whack?
Also good to know that we're protecting the quality of Okanagan Lake on the south end, but not on the north end of the lake.
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