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By Tina Costanza its new guidelines for their effluent regulations,
explains Kevin Rice, General Manager of TransAqua
f there’s one thing the citizens of Dieppe, and responsible for delivery of the Wastewater
Moncton and Riverview are passionate about, Treatment Facility Upgrade and Modernization
it’s the Petitcodiac River that flows through Project. TransAqua then had 10 years, to Dec. 31,
Ithat tri-community in New Brunswick. It’s 2020, to meet the guidelines.
where residents and visitors enjoy recreational
activities, such as surfing the tidal bore, boating The governments of Canada and New Brunswick
and fishing. It’s also the destination of the flow from pitched in to help. Each has contributed $22.6
the TransAqua Wastewater Treatment Facility in million to the $90.4-million project. TransAqua is
Riverview. providing the remaining funds.
Clearly, it’s crucial the facility does its job well — The improvements will also stabilize the wastewater
clean water in the river supports tourism, protects treatment rate and create pre- and post-
public health, and ensures the river remains a construction jobs. Sixty-five contractors have been
source of recreation — and TransAqua has been working at the site this past spring. The average
upgrading and modernizing the facility. number of workers throughout the year ranges
between 40 and 60, depending on what’s going on
The work stems from the CCME (the Canadian at the time. Come July 2020, Rice says TransAqua
Council of Ministers of the Environment) having estimates about 100 contractors will be on-site for a
deemed the facility in 2010 to be at high risk under few months.
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