{"id":9095,"date":"2018-12-01T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2018-12-01T00:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T04:04:45","slug":"water-project-hits-completion-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9095","title":{"rendered":"Water project hits completion date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>The end has arrived for the $12 million Fall River water project.<\/p>\n<p>In tweets on the morning of Nov. 30, Councillor Steve Streatch gave a brief update on the project as completion day hit. In a later message to <em>The Laker,<\/em> Streatch said staff are compiling final numbers. He hopes to sit-down with the paper in December to give a final overview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovember 30, 2018 is the day many residents in Fall River have been waiting for,\u201d Streatch said in the tweet. \u201cSubstantial completion of the new water system has been delivered to HRM. Letters sent to property owners re: connection process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was completed on time, on budget and to specification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Streatch\u2019s understanding is that Georges P. Vanier; Lockview High; and Ash Lee Jefferson will be connected very soon to the water system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(It will) bring clean, safe, drinking water to hundreds of children for the first time at all those locations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He gave an update on when residents should be able to be hooked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents located within phase one, Fall River Road, Lockview, etc. will follow immediately afterwards,\u201d he said. \u201cWith phase two receiving letters next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older, compromised Miller Road system will connect next year after engineering completed.<\/p>\n<p>Streatch recognized the frustrations faced by residents during the water project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis $12 million water infrastructure project installation, one of the largest HRM has undertaken in quite some time, has been stressful for residents, commuters and our contractor (Dexter Construction),\u201d said Streatch. \u201cI thank you all for your patience and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will all now benefit for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: The end has arrived for the $12 million Fall River water project. In tweets on the morning of Nov. 30, Councillor Steve Streatch gave a brief update on the project as completion day hit. In a later message to The Laker, Streatch said staff are compiling final numbers. He hopes to sit-down with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2,45,121,57,58],"class_list":["post-9095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax-water","tag-hrm","tag-steve-streatch","tag-water-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","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=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/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=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}