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on time and we’re projecting to be on budget, if not

under budget.”

While the project hasn’t involved any formal
community consultations per se, TransAqua has

been communicative with stakeholders. The
organization makes an annual presentation to

the cities of Moncton and Dieppe and the Town of

Riverview, and also periodically to provide them with
a project update.

Before construction began, TransAqua mailed

residents who live near the facility, to inform them

about the upcoming work that could generate dust
and noise.

Ratepayers, who have also seen an annual increase
of about $5 since 2005, had the opportunity to

attend an open house at the facility in 2019 and

can view the work on a webcam on TransAqua’s
website, transaqua.ca.

“We proactively shut down the construction site
“We haven’t heard a single complaint,” says Rice.
from March 23 to April 12. We notified our funding

partners and we developed — and the commission
http://www.transaqua.ca/
board approved — the pandemic policy and a

construction site pandemic protocol,” says Rice.
http://www.transaqua.ca/infrastructure/current-
infrastructure
“We just shut down for three weeks, put all our

ducks in a row, got all the contractors on side before
http://www.transaqua.ca/commission/news/27-
we reopened and it’s been nothing but a positive
07-2019/construction-and-commissioning-wwtf-
experience. We had been pushing our contractors
upgrade-and-modernization-project
pretty hard up until that point so we had a little bit

of leeway. We could handle three weeks shutting
down and be able to pick up where we left off and

not endanger the schedule too much. So we will be

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