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STEWIACKE:<\/strong> The Town of Stewiacke and the province are partnering to invest more than $2.5 million into wastewater upgrades for the Colchester County community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At an announcement held under the hot sun at Dennis Park on Thursday morning, Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley MLA Larry Harrison made the announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStewiacke is growing fast, and it needs wastewater capacity to keep up to support the influx of new residents,\u201d said Larry Harrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stewiacke Mayor George Lloy was there announcing the town’s portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″] The project is part of the Municipal Capital Growth Program, a one-time $102-million investment in projects across Nova Scotia \u2013 a historic provincial investment in municipal infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”218″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″] “We are grateful for the opportunity to work with the Province to address the infrastructure issues facing our community.\u201d [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”115″] STEWIACKE: The Town of Stewiacke and the province are partnering to invest more than $2.5 million into wastewater upgrades for the Colchester County community. At an announcement held under the hot sun at Dennis Park on Thursday morning, Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley MLA Larry Harrison made the announcement. \u201cStewiacke is growing fast, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[2732,6315,48,1022,2737,6923],"class_list":["post-46227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-john-lohr","tag-larry-harrison","tag-n-s","tag-stewiacke","tag-town-of-stewiacke","tag-watewater-upgrades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Improving the town\u2019s wastewater system will ensure it can handle potential capacity issues posed by ongoing development.
The province and town are both investing more than $2.52 million in the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/strong>\u201cThe funding we\u2019ve received from the province will provide essential wastewater infrastructure upgrades for the Town of Stewiacke, which is growing at an unprecedented rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 George Lloy, Mayor, Town of Stewiacke
<\/em>Quick Facts:
<\/strong>– the Municipal Capital Growth Program, announced in February, was designed to respond to the infrastructure needs of municipalities and addresses critical issues such as housing, climate change, accessibility and growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n