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early 2021 and the engineers are telling us they’re
“You just kind of have to be very
feeling very confident that they’re going to be able
persistent to keep something like
to meet that date.”
this moving ahead.” — Councillor
Rhonda Phillips
The lift portion is expected to be commissioned
in August and will be turned over to the town by had been work done on the project, but it wasn’t
September. really getting anywhere,” Phillips explains. “Not any
fault of the people who were working on the project,
“There’s a few problems with COVID-19 but they you just kind of have to be very persistent to keep
haven’t really developed all the way,” Phillips says. something like this moving ahead.”
INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY In 2009, Phillips and a couple of other new
councillors decided to take on the project and
A lot of community consultation has helped shape developed what they called Sewage 101. The first
the project. year consisted of research and speaking to experts,
and then working with a company for a preliminary
“I was elected to council in 2009. Before that, there design.
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