{"id":16013,"date":"2020-08-06T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16013"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:46:55","slug":"fall-river-water-bills-expected-this-fall-streatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16013","title":{"rendered":"Fall River water bills expected this fall: Streatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Residents should be patient for a few more months as the finalization is done to the tax bills for the Fall River water project, said Councillor Steve Streatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was completed more than a year ago, however residents have not been informed exactly what their costs will be. That has left many unable to budget their finances yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe water bills have not been issued yet, but they will be coming out later this fall (on your tax bill),\u201d said Streatch. \u201cPeople should not look at that in a negative. Nobody is in a hurry to get a bill from HRM in any form, but there\u2019s no jeopardy involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He said the COVID19 pandemic and complications have delayed things a bit, including HRM redoing their whole budget. It was estimated the cost for residents along the route of the water line would be $11,500\u2014whether they hooked up or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithin that budget, I was successful in getting $100k from council to contribute towards the Local Improvement Charge (LIC) fund to reduce the pressure on the residents. I feel good about that,\u201d said Streatch. \u201cThe bills will be out into November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streatch said talks have started on the water project expansion to other areas that need it, such as St. Andrews Village, Schwarzwald, and Fall River Village in future phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now into discussion for phase three of the project, which will take us into three areas that have indicated clearly they are in need of central water services,\u201d said Streatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He said the project has been 20-plus years in the making and is an accomplishment he is proud to have brought to the district. Work on the project had begun under the guidance of Councillor Barry Dalrymple before he retired and Streatch won the seat in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am proud to be the member of council to be able to finally deliver that,\u201d he said. \u201cThe water and it\u2019s service is working very well right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streatch knows other areas in the community which are in desperate need of some relieve from their water issues. He said it would be an HRM-led initiative, with funding partnerships from the province and federal governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI have had a lot of people contact me asking me for the water service to come to their areas, whether that is in Schwarzwald, St. Andrews Village, or Fall River Village,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a process and we have started that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLater this fall, my intention would be to petition those areas to gauge a level of interest and the type of system that would need to be designed for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the system that was installed allowed enough capacity to support and supply all the subdivisions in the Fall River area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQuite frankly, that installation was just the beginning of many good things to come, and many more connections in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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