The city was told almost half of water and waste water plants, equipment are in poor condition and declining
A reminder to the City of Niagara Falls it needs to plan for repairs and upgrades to its water and waste water facilities.
The region's director of waste water Phill Lambert told council recently 46% of drinking water infrastructure is in poor to very poor condition, and waste water isn't much better.
He noted they must advocate for provincial and federal help. "One thing that strikes me is every time I walk into a [treatment] plant, is there's a plaque, and on that plaque it'll read this was brought to you be a [city] council, provincial program, and a federal program."
He added there are on-going plans to ensure safe drinking water and effective waste water treatment.
He explained why waste water costs more than drinking water facilities. "We have about $4.4-billion, just on the waste water side. We have 11 waste water treatment plants, over 120 sewage pumping stations, but, we have over $2-billion on the water side."
The City of St. Catharines recently reviewed a plan to rebuild and fix aging sewers that are decades old, Mayor Mat Siscoe says it goes back to WW2.
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