{"id":9827,"date":"2019-03-05T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9827"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:24:09","slug":"mcpherson-road-residents-water-info-session-march-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9827","title":{"rendered":"McPherson Road residents water info session March 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The Miller Lake Road and McPherson Road water systems will be connected to the newly installed water line in Fall River.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these projects, which have gone to tender recently, are Halifax Water projects. Miller Lake Road was just recently posted on the N.S. tender website.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Steve Streatch said that currently both the systems are small and relatively inefficient, and the one on Miller Lake Road has arsenic present in samples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to have these two smaller systems connect to the new supply will enhance public safety and water quality for even more local residents,\u201d said Streatch.<\/p>\n<p>He added that as time goes by, and new areas and subdivisions are identified for expansion and connection, public meetings will be scheduled to communicate and advise residents affected.<\/p>\n<p>James Campbell, with Halifax Water, said the public meeting for McPherson Road project, set for March 11 at Georges P. Vanier Junior High, is for only those properties impacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a community wide information session,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cIt is only for the properties that are part of the private, Nova Scotia Environment regulated, McPherson community water supply that currently draws water from Lake Thomas. Letters were delivered directly to the relevant properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said if a resident is not part of the McPherson community water supply that currently draws water from Lake Thomas, there is no need or value in them attending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: The Miller Lake Road and McPherson Road water systems will be connected to the newly installed water line in Fall River. Both of these projects, which have gone to tender recently, are Halifax Water projects. Miller Lake Road was just recently posted on the N.S. tender website. Councillor Steve Streatch said that currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2,45,348,349,350],"class_list":["post-9827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax-water","tag-lake-thomas","tag-mcpherson-road","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827","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=9827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}